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ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… The Bloemfontein Bank, Standard Bank and the London South African Bank. 1862 De Tijd , a German newspaper, begins to … system is put into place. 1912 8…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… was followed by Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, Chairperson of the South African Indian Congress and Chairperson of the underground South African Communist Party. Both were…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African regime, which, facing myriad internal and external … Movement protesting British Arms to…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… to the Struggle. Worchester: Diana Ferrus Publishers.|African National Congress, (1980). The Role of Women in the … Available at sahistory.org.za [Accessed…
ArticleClassroom: Educational sites for learners and educators
… tool for the classroom, aimed at school kids. South African Educational Portal Welcome to the Thutong Portal: … curriculum, and support materials to the…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
… in South Africa, for instance, has both a national South African heritage, as well as a more personal and private one. Such a person might also be considered…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… committee because of her involvement with organising African workers, Harriet chose to resign from the GWIU in … Harriet’s decision to take on National Union…
ArticleThe Order of the Baobab
… This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens for distinguished service. The service … finds its inspiration from the Baobab which is a tropical…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… Ozynski The Rand Daily Mail , a prominent, liberal, South African daily] routinely avoided using pictures of black … the history of photography in South…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… and by 1902 at the end of the Anglo-Boer or South African War, the Afrikaners had once again lost their … their claim to hold exclusive power within the…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… 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)…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… to the Durban Corporation. Towards the end of the decade African refugees from Zululand move to the city to find … to South Africa. 1904 By this year there…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… South Africa. Passes were used to control the movement of African, Coloured and Indian people, ensuring the provision … cheap labour source and enforcing the…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… the use of Afrikaans as the language of instruction at African secondary schools. In the ensuing two-year … 1977, boycotts and unrest grew after Steve Biko ,…
Imvaba Arts Association
… the production of banners and media for Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the National Union of … The association aligned itself with the…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… crossbreed of Dutch, German, English, French in the South African white settler population produced a bluntness that … into fiction—there has been for me a…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… significant in the years leading to 1994. They include the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), … fate of specific communities in…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… As decolonisation swept across the African continent, in the early 1960s African liberation movements in countries that were still … Reflection (MISTRA), the…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… undoubtedly left its mark on twentieth-century South African history. This is about the only non controversial … in a mechanical fashion, as the automatic…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… Introduction Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press … and as the groups came under attack from South African…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… indigenous sense, it relates to kinship between numerous African languages. In Anthropology, the term was used to … in his 1862 publication Comparative…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… Black delegates from the four provinces attended the South African Native National Convention (SANNC) in Waaihoek, … to propose ways of objecting to the…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… “Africans’ Dinner”, celebrating the incorporation of the African Progress Union and the Society of Peoples of African Origin into the Union of African People…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… the history of one the leading members of the South African communist movement. Starting at the beginning of the South African Indian resistance against the…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… was put under strict sanctions. The Organisation of African Unity and the Southern Africa Development Community …
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… period of great political upheaval in the country, as the African National Congress (ANC) launched its military wing – …
ArticleLives of Courage
… and relatives played in helping to bring about South African democracy. In 2000 South African History Online (SAHO) launched the 'Lives of Courage … anti…
Mandela: Message to India
… South African History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 … Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the post-apartheid South African scene, organised by…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
… [Accessed: 18 February 2015] South African History Online, (2014), ‘ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ’, from South African History Online, [online], Available at …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… agree to be incorporated into a United South African Republic 1867 Schoemansdal evacuated by the Dutch and … 1901 British capture of Pietersburg during the…