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Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… a generation of black and white educators responsible for African education in South Africa. For details, see R. Hunt Davis, "The Black American Educational…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… Abstract Miriam Makeba was a South African singer, daughter, mother, and an antiapartheid … one can deny she played an even bigger part in the South African…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… preferred destination for migrants. 1899 - 1902 The South African War between the Afrikaaner Republics of the Transvaal … 09 Pedi chiefdoms, seeking to take…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People in 1955. On the 21st of March 1960, a total of 69 people were … 1961, after a long and anxious…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Introduction Following British victory in the South African War , the Union of South Africa was forged in 1910 … Lesotho), SAHO is currently developing…
ArticleMafika Pascal Gwala Annual Lecture
… Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with … and Social Sciences (NIHSS). Gwala…
Article1956 Women Marchers
… of the Albertina and Walter Sisulu Foundation and South African History Online to gather the names and stories of the … who marched under the banner of the…
ArticleMafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017
… Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with … and Social Sciences (NIHSS). Gwala…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian forms compatible with their African Counterparts? Can song and the spoken word in a … which began in 2010 as a conversation…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
… 1949 an Indian store-keeper in central Durban assaulted an African youth. This incident resulted in a wave of violence, … Durban to Pietermaritzburg. On 6…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 23 April 1994 BETWEEN THE FREEDOM FRONT, THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN-GOVERNMENT/ NATIONAL PARTY TAKING NOTE of the … NOTE of the…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… 1952 The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid Regime , which in the following years … at the United Nations…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… common membership. The League took up issues on behalf of African women who were billeted with passes and suffered … leaving the magisterial area of Durban…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… of gold at the Rand was the chief cause of the South African War. This is not completely true, as British … of the Treaty of Vereeniging. The result of the…
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… in East London, Eastern Cape. 1961 Is recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) military wing Umkhonto we … , Chris Hani and Thabo Mbeki who meet…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… The forthcoming 2011 Census is part of the 2010 round of African censuses aimed at generating data about the … era is uneven and unreliable especially with…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… which went on to play on Broadway. Sarafina , a South African musical produced by Mbongeni Ngema depicted students … and heroines who followed the tradition…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… Walter Sisulu and Professor Z. K. Matthews join the African National Congress (ANC). 7 July, The Executive Committees of the All African Convention (AAC) and…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… settlers and colonial companies like the British South African Company for farming and mining. This was also largely … in areas-like agriculture and the…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… in Brooklyn, in New York. August, Booker T Washington, an African-American leader, receives a letter from Dube … is opened at Ohlange during an annual…
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) In Summary : Poet, African National Congress Chief Representative to Sweden and United States of America, South African…
ArticleFrontline States
… Africa was regionally supported by a group of southern African states called the Frontline States. These were … Whilst Botswana accepts that we are part of…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South Africa into a … instrumental to this effect and…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… regime through the medium of music and assisted the African National Congress (ANC) by performing at events in … Words Johnny Dyani, jazz, music, double bass…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… the townships. Within four months of the Soweto revolt 160 African communities all over the country were involved in … of students left the country and went…
ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
… a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir trip to the United States (US)…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… late 1970s was the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) in 1979. FOSATU was the first South African trade union federation that…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… and boxing by Blacks. Between the 1880s and 1910s, African, Indian, and Coloured football associations and … inter-war years signaled the dawn of a new era…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… Africa (FEDUSA), NACTU and the Confederation of South African Workers’ Unions (CONSAWU)), into one federation called the South African Confederation of Trade…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… which put the Eastern Cape at the forefront of pioneering African political organisations. The first was the emergence a class of black African farmers who…