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ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… Africans followed suit. In 1889 the Whites-only South African Rugby Board was founded. Eight years later the South African Coloured Rugby Football Board was…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… for Life And Times Of Michael K, about a young South African man trying to shield his mother from the country's … racist and colonial prejudices in Afrikaans…
ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… a joint project between the Department of Education, South African History Online and the South African History Archive (SAHA). SAHA is assisting with the ……
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… Education, was quoted as saying: “I have not consulted the African people on the language issue and I’m not going to. An African might find that ‘the big…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson South African history can legitimately be described as the story of … for the enrichment of Europeans. A basic…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… for Wesleyan missionaries to educate and liberate African girls. Of all Josiah’s fellow-pupils hailing from … would rise to become leading figures in ANC and…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… and demanded rights for 'coloured' people. The ANC or African National Congress was formed in 1912. The South African Indian Congress was formed in 1923 to…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Bloemfontein
… Free State by the British army in 1900, four prominent African political organizations emerged. The ORC Native … that only operated in Bloemfontein and Thaba…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… panel of rock art now housed and displayed in the South African Museum in Cape Town. In 1917, this panel was removed … panel one of the best preserved of all…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… trade unions was met with severe reprisals from the South African regime. Luderitz, a harbour town in southwest Namibia … very little about trade union work…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… The involvement of the South African national rugby team, the Springboks, in international … international rugby in 1992. On 23 March 1992, the South African…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… an Afrikaner economy, and to gain control of the South African government. During the 1930s the Afrikaner … merged the National Party (NP) with Jan Smuts '…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… at Fort Hare. His stay at Fort Hare introduced him to African intellectuals from the Eastern Cape. Essak excelled …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… a watershed for youth politics in South Africa. The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support … were beginning to have a wider reach…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… is born. 1953 First is a founder member of the South African Congress of Democrats (COD). First becomes the … into a movie with First playing herself. 1972…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… was largely because of his ideas and inspiration that the African National Congress was founded on an overcast but calm … years, established scholarships to…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… and armed struggle anchored in the banning of the South African Communist Party(SACP) in 1950, the Sharpeville … massacre in 1961 and the subsequent bannings…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… there was a global economic crisis. As a result, the South African currency lost value, the gold price dropped; … resisted apartheid to some extent, but also…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… to Pretoria without any medical attention. Three South African newspapers carried reports that Biko did not die as a … took one of these papers, the Rand…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… and the Afrikaner republics were dislodged from the land. African, Coloured and Indian and other Asiatic we segregated … land control systems in South Africa…
ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
… in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for … are issues debated at length, placed in the…
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. The town has a history … steeped in bloody relations between the…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Timbuktu, French Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to … through the Sahara desert to the countries…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… settlements and amongst women. According to the South African constitution , all people have the right to have … infection in South Africa, several studies…
The National Flag
… The national flag was designed by a former South African State Herald, Mr Fred Brownell, and was first used on … as the convergence of diverse elements…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… had seen some of the most turbulent events in South African history, the first signs that the apartheid regime … on 19 October 1977: Black People's…
Chapter 3: The Role of the Police and the Government in Vigilante Activities
… This chapter is not about the general role of the South African Police (SAP) and the South African Government in KwaZulu-Natal; it is about their … June 1992…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… the headlines of news publications and the minds of South African citizens. Despite the consistent political turbulence … allied with other anti-apartheid…
Liberation organisations
… on the Freedom Charter . The UDF was supported by the African National Congress (ANC) in exile. The End Conscription Campaign The South African Defense Force…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… in late 19th and early 20th Centuries. After the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, … of thousands of Chinese to undercut any…