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ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… Worker during Apartheid Nobengazi Mary Kota is a South African domestic worker for a wealthy family in Cape Town; … at the University of Illinois, claims…
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…
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…
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…
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 ,…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… for women. An introductory background on South African customary law will be presented by way of tracing the … of segregation, and after democratization. The…
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…
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…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the denominations and throughout … largest and most enduring and cohesive not only of all…
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…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… fascist one. Writing for the New York Review of Books in 1955, in an article titled Ur-Fascism, the late Italian … of Human Rights. To this end, he seeks to…
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…
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…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider … and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory…
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…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention (SANC) decided to call a meeting in … First Section • To formally…
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 …
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…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… functioned under the umbrella organization, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) . However, in the 1930s -1940s … under the umbrella organization, the…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… 1952- EXILES within : an anthology of poetry / 7 South African poets. - Johannesburg : Writers Forum, 1986. -- 68p. … theatre.' (SUBJECTS: Theatre and black…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… of a railway, but eventually decides in favour of using African labour. 22 January, The Immigration Trust Board is … at Indians, Law No. 3 of 1885 , is…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… that stresses ethnicity’s salience in post-apartheid South African conflict. It challenges constructivist research and … I will analyse the language of Thabo…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… played a pivotal role in the education of Black South African women. Just outside of Durban, Inanda Seminary has … with other professors to provide a great…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… the first workers' cooperative in the history of the South African Labour Movement. This paper will examine the process … These two features made this…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… period of great political upheaval in the country, as the African National Congress (ANC) launched its military wing – …
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… was put under strict sanctions. The Organisation of African Unity and the Southern Africa Development Community …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and … 1900 A fifth of the total land area in the South African Republic (ZAR) is owned by…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… in reaction to the ANC Defiance Campaign. The South West African question was also on the agenda annually as from 1946. Initially the South African…
Article2016 in Review
… Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa takes place. - FEBRUARY - … of Energy (DoE), Earthlife Africa (ELA) and…