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Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… National Party, opposed to the United Party, broke away from the NP. They formed the Reunited National Party or … the government. As a result of the mounting…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… (Frente de Libertação Moçambique) is a communist party from Mozambique . It was founded in 1962 and formed a part of … Act (1950) and the Unlawful…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… and how it affected people. What was apartheid? Translated from the Afrikaans meaning 'apartness', apartheid was the … In basic principles, apartheid did not…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… White settlement in the eastern Transvaal at Ohrigstad, from which a rival community soon broke away to found … was the family of Louis Johannes Nel, who had…
Conflict among civic organisations
… divisions was race. For instance, CAHAC drew its support from coloured civic organisations. 21 civic organisation … the WCCA in 1982. The WCCA represented…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… and gather wild plants to survive. They also move around from place to place, following a nomadic way of life. The … section Social organisation The San…
Khoisan Identity
… an indigenous population of South Africa is at present far from resolved, and the wider question of Khoisan identity … years. However, with the arrival of…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… by the Department of Education)). This excerpt from Van Riebeeck's diaries describes with surprising … remained the central question in South Africa to this…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… of people and destroying property. Some black people died from so-called black-on-black violence, and many others were … Sisulu, Kathrada, Mhlaba and…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
… West Africa. Some early Eastern Bantu speakers moved south from this homeland, along the edge of the Congo, to Angola … indicates that Nguni people had once…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… 1919 Mohamed Kathrada and his wife Hawa, immigrants from India, arrive in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the … for civil disobedience. 1947 January,…
ArticleDISA Archive
… particularly the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994, … the selection of the content, and…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… . Discrimination against Indians – Indians were excluded from receiving pensions according to this Act. South Africa … Council that emigration to Natal is…
BiographyHezekiel Sepeng
… 7th place at the Sydney Olympics. In 2004 he was omitted from the list of Olympic athletes representing South Africa. …
BiographyOliver Mtukudzi
… the first born in a family of seven siblings. Mtukudzi was from a musical family, as both his parents were singers. This …
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… and anti-imperialist agenda draws inspiration from the broad Marxist-Leninist and Fanonian schools of … in order to undo the oppression which resulted…
Glossary: Transport through time
… in many places. Coral reef Hard ridge in warm seas, made from the skeletons of very small sea animals that can be also … puts the fuel alight to start an…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer … listen to those people who are trying to keep you away from school, who are saying this and this…
The Afrikaner Bond
… became an effective mobiliser of Afrikaner political power from its beginnings in 1880 to its dissolution in 1911. It … for the Afrikaners, as they were…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… as Freedom Day and people of all races to stay away from work to demonstrate support for freedom. The ANC does … the meeting. By this time, Dr Alfred Bitini…
Zulu Community
… the first known inhabitants of the Durban area arrived from the north around 100,000 BC. Little is known of the … to the KwaZulu-Natal coast while searching…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… brought by the Dutch in 1652, and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the … are the descendents of slaves brought to…
Indian education in Natal
… was taken that an Inspector (Education) should be obtained from the Government of Madras, India. The School Board also … in town had been prevented by the 9…
Indian immigrants engaged in non-sugar growing activities
… From the outset a large number of Indians were employed in … in existence today. Indians were brought were brought out from Madras in 1861 as boatmen which…
A growing urban African population
… by increased revenue following South Africa's departure from the Gold Standard, the JCC managed to provide … alternative housing for communities earmarked…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… 1919. Established by Clements Kadalie , who was originally from Nyasaland (now Malawi), the ICU started out as a trade … in its membership skilled as well as…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… all natives coming away with purchases and take the goods from them'. The women demanded that people stop buying from the white shopkeepers until prices were…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… and the removal of White criminals entering the state from elsewhere." There were nine licensed Indian, traders in … Chinaman, a Coolie or any other Asiatic…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the founders of the kingdom were KiKongo … speaking people, and the spelling of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, 75 000 citizens from the United Kingdom immigrated to South Africa. [18] … Swart.: “The Causes of the Boer War,”…