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Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… into the Union of South Africa. During this war, many African people associated themselves with the British in the … vagaries of race continue to beset…
Conflict among civic organisations
… of civic and residents’ organisations both in coloured and African areas across the Western Cape. In 1981 Nyanga, Langa … which came together under an…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… hard work and foresight by the ANC. The formation of the African National Congress was an act of great foresight. The … the same measure, the adoption of the…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… writing career later on. By the time she was 19, in 1955, Imalayen was the first Algerian woman admitted to the … was a major voice of postcolonial thought…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… what we mapped out in general terms at Kliptown in 1955, what we planned and theorised about in the difficult … a cross-pollination of ideas which will…
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 …
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…
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…
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:…
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,…
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…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… members of the judiciary, The Vice President of the Pan African Parliament, HE Mr Roger Nkondo Dang, The Speaker of … from all walks of life adopted the…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… grave of John Dube, the first President of the ANC, the African patriot that had helped found the organisation in … those who in 1914 rebelled against Louis…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 12 February 2015
… members of the judiciary, The Vice President of the Pan African Parliament, HE Mr Roger Nkondo Dang, The Speaker of … from all walks of life adopted the…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… is January 8th, we mark also a new anniversary of the African National Congress - the 69th. 1980, the initial year … culminate in the epoch making 70th…
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 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…
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 ……
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…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… contains HIV, which is the virus that causes AIDS. 1970s African doctors see a rise in opportunistic infections and … official case of AIDS in South Africa…
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…
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…