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ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… SWAPO emerged as the sole liberation movement in the early 1960s because it had the support of the Ovambo, the largest …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 4: Medicine through time
… Isangomas and inyangas are the two main types of indigenous or traditional healers in South …
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… them into bloody strikes, violence and rebellion. Their main enemy was the Chamber of Mines, a body of men who owned … majority of white workers in South…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… the Afrikaner Nationalist Party came to power in 1948. The main difference is that apartheid made segregation part of … for apartheid, although they are all…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… approved constitution Kohler held numerous meetings in the main wine-growing areas in the course of 1917, encouraging …
ArticleNational Newspapers and News Sites
… - Major afternoon daily in Cape Town. The Natal Witness - Main Newspaper for KwaZulu Natal. News 24 - Major South …
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… died aged 83, was an active opponent of Ian Smith in the 1960s and 70s, and later used her political skills in an … where she studied history and Shona, one…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… of Namibian activists in Cape Town, and then in the early 1960s one of only a handful of Namibian women in exile, … Movement, 321. ↵ [5] Becker, Women’s…
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
… it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… Act, chieftaincy in the 1930s through to the 1960s and 1970s was largely subjected to the authority of … the “Scheduled Native Areas” was recognized as one…
ArticlePondoland
… kilometres wide. The area is surrounded by mountains whose main vegetation consisted of thornveld , grassland, as well …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… in 1994. In Apartheid South Africa there were only three main political parties. These were the NP, the Democratic … as opposed to early in the twentieth…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… were banned, and by 1965 Sactu petered out. From the early 1960s onwards, the state brutally suppressed all political … in anti-apartheid resistance was…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… the overall patterns. I would suggest different grades of chronology e.g. by millenium, by century, by decade, by year … Sterkfontein, the 'Border Wars' …
EventBishop Zulu is born
… and was a member of the Zulu Royal Dynasty. In the early 1960s he was elected president of the World Council of …
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… with the majority in control.” [1] From the mid-1960s the government built up what was regarded as the most … in which Nelson Mandela played such an…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… in international rugby is rife with controversy. In the 1960s, as international criticism of apartheid grew, the …
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… that “ the people shall govern” that highlighted the main principles of the South African Congress alliance. The …
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Bergh though the Public Service Amendment Act (1969). The main aim of BOSS was to monitor national security, as well as … for coordinating internal and…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… trade Freedom from enforced labour The Congress became the main political organ of the Black people throughout the … alternative press: voices of protest and…
Grade 10 Archive
… Central and South America. The impact of colonialism : The main reason why Europeans began to search for a sea route to …
ArticleTransport on water
… of boat from ancient times. This boat had three hulls (main bodies) and were built by Polynesians about 4 000 years … to their boats. For many centuries,…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… at the forefront of the revival of African writing in the 1960s. He published short stories and poems in The Classic … parties and the imprisonment of many…
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… America, and worked for a short time as a teacher. In the 1960s he was the director of External Services in charge of … During Nigeria's tumultuous political…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… against Apartheid from the late 1950s to the early 1960s. It was a time of hope because in the corridors of MTB, … she was barely tolerated and hardly…
ArchiveThe National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… in the context of South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, and explaining its strategic political choices. In …
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… March-May 1984 Lessons of the 1950s addresses all the main questions of revolutionary strategy and tactics and … position on this question was quite clear:…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… and the rebirth into new life. The Headquarters of the Main Centre is in Pretoria. …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… and urban squalor to bring him up. 1960 In the early 1960s, the State of Emergency used by the apartheid state to … of South Africa's oppressed. At the same…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… of families units was probably closer to eighteen. In the 1960s Hlangane Msiza died, and leadership of what had by now … which translates to "the place of…