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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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… at Fort Hare. His stay at Fort Hare introduced him to African intellectuals from the Eastern Cape. Essak excelled …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… climate change. Renewable energy only emerged in the South African government’s plans after the World Summit on … as ESKOM, the National Union of Mineworkers…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 '…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…