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ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… of several SADF forces and a clash between the South African government and Cuban forces. 15 January 1975 … of 15 provincial capitals. 5 August 1975 …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… the Huddleston Jazz Band. By 1956, Masekela joined the African Jazz Revue that was organized by a British entrepreneur named Alfred Herbert as an African…
Bonani Africa 2010 Photographic Festival Conference: Papers and Abstracts
… and Shredded Edge by Ashraf Jamal Self-Imagining and South African Art Photography by Zen Marie “What Goals and Whose … Vision? Present Trends and Future…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… first English-language publications in Namibia were South African government publications during the inter-war period. … [2] It was not until after World War…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… Frontline as publications that were part of the South African liberation movement but independent of any political … South Africa and also reprinted news…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… The Representation of Natives Act essentially stripped African people in the Cape of their voting rights and offered … by White-owned land) (Horrell 1978:…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… of states are standard features in sub-Saharan. [ix] The African continent has been observed as possessing special … and political instability and corruption…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… is defaced and painted with colors of the old South African flag used by the Apartheid government. 2015 26 March, … bottom part of the statue of Loius Botha,…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been … legislation and force, or the threat of such. Areas of African …
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… industry, mining. This task first fell to the South African Party that prevailed in the Union’s first general … Some of these socialist parties merged to…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… It was also capital-intensive and because the South African Republic was cash strapped, there was room for … to engage in the mining industry. Before the…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… bodies. In 1902 Coloureds in Cape Town formed the African People's Organisation to represent the interests of … assumed new urgency with the formation of the…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… 1976 uprisings and their aftermath, ex-Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) members in the Western Cape began … rent boycotts and also defended…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… Abstract : Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a South African jazz pianist and alto saxophonist from Port … of his career developing his mixed sound of roots South…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… Chief Luthuli . Sisulu was anxious to emphasise Indo-African unity and was ‘dismayed by the attitudes he encountered in his discussions with African National…
ArticleMcGill University Project
… completed an exciting online collaboration with South African History Online (SAHO). Over the course of two months, … their work. The student essays formed…
ArticleAfricanist News and Views (1968-1973)
… to Africanist News and Views, was to galvanise the African people into a revolutionary force with a clearly defined political philosophy of an African…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… in her book, The Black Sash: The Story of the South African Women's Defense of the Constitution League, that the … or unwilling to participate in the fight…
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 – …
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… The Empire of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the … territory, rendering it one of the…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… when the other black led political forces such as the African National Congress were moribund. 1881 December, The … at a De Beers Mine resulting in the death…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African resistance to the racially based system rapidly … industrialisation and a substantial…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… or Bantustan), amid tense negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government under President FW de Klerk. Prior to a ……
References and links: Local History
… [Accessed: 9 January 2015]. Online links South African History Online, (2014), “Constructing heritage and heritage resources” from South African History…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899 to 1902. The women, Florence Phillips … They were resident in Britain during the…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… collaboration that regulated apartheid planning in South African cities and regions. I first look at the colonial … of the Afrikaner and the place of the…
Tools and weapons from iron and copper
… of labour: gender-based activity: men Work within the African societies was divided according to gender. The men … crop cultivation, which was the women’s…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by the … as well as to recognize any potential threats to the South…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… Klug inserted himself into the conflict of South African apartheid and aided in the transition of the … Act, segregation, Student Representative Council,…