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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Biography 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…
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
… the adoption of the landmark human rights document, the African Claims in South Africa at the 1943 National … 50 years since the establishment of the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… the adoption of the landmark human rights document, the African Claims in South Africa at the 1943 National … 50 years since the establishment of the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… the lifting of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other anti-apartheid … February, Nelson…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… conquest of Africans came the issue of how to deal with African people, which the government termed the “Native … enacted by both the Afrikaners and the…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… disrupted during the war years. The value of South African agricultural exports increased by 62 percent. … growing trend towards large-scale capitalisation…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… Background Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are … the proposed Public Holidays Bill before…