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ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
… evolves. However, all is not well. Friction mounts as African tenants level allegations of exorbitant rent-hikes … to their jealousy of Indian advancement…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly … riots also played an important role in the…
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. National symbols such as a national flag, an anthem … a part of that country and all its…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… as part of a trend of seizure of territory across the African continent by European nations that became known as … with the British gaining control over most…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… From Protest to Challenge, A Documentary History of South African Politics. The Launch of MK and the Liliesleaf Raid … of political rights by the Apartheid…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… The Groote Schuur Minute 4 May 1990 The government and the African National Congress agree on a common commitment … on a definition of political offences in…
The turn to armed struggle
… weSizwe (MK). MK members came from the ANC, SACP, South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO). On 16…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… organized by the Council in front of the South African Consulate. 8 November, Reddy meets a delegation of African National Congress (ANC) President-General…
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… the GFWBF. It became a dynamic point of contact between African workers in different industries and the Bolton Hall … by the 1973 strike wave. Alongside semi…
ArticleSharpeville
… sent shock waves around the country and the world. The African National Congress (ANC) President, Chief Albert … banned leading political figures. The ANC,…
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… to Segregation Negotiations between the Indian and South African Governments The Round Table Conference Reactions to … Socio-Economic Factors 2. The…
ArticleThe San
… of Stone Age hunter-gatherers populated the South African landscape for nearly two million years, yet for most … give us clues as to the development of the…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women Johannesburg, 17 April 1954. The Charter … and aims of the newly established Federation…
64. Congress addresses the Union Parliament, 1946
… Pachai M. D. Barmania, one of the secretaries of the South African Indian Congress, appeared before the Senate of the South African Parliament on 3 May 1946…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… considered establishing a Russian consulate in the South African Republic (ZAR, later Transvaal) in March 1897, due to the ‘ever growing importance of the…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… organisations was banned. Amongst these were the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), Black People's … application of the ideas of Lenin and Marx to…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… Racial Problems in South Africa , at the Second Pan-African Youth Seminar in Dar Es Salaam. 1962 January, Meets … of Heads of State and Government of the…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… Gadija Bazier Samuels represents a generation of South African activists who transitioned from opposing apartheid to …
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… Bantus and Whites. In resisting colonial expansion, Black African rulers founded sizable and powerful kingdoms and … the 11 officially recognised languages,…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… at Indians, Law 3 of 1885 , is passed in the South African Republic, or the Transvaal. 1. This law shall apply … (a) They cannot obtain the burgher right of…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… party, such as the United Nations or the Organisation of African Unity . Other more extremist organisations such as … MK, and the role of the public…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… HA Naidoo passes away while still in exile. 17 February, African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) … bridge. Rick Turner , who was…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… of political rights by the apartheid regime also saw the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist … 21 March 1960 marked an important turning…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… King Kong: An African Jazz , was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. The musical … for Black South Africans in the…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since the … Act No. 30 of 1950 . This Act divided…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… Walker describes the impressive scene: Many of the African women wore traditional dress, others wore the … commemorated each year as a national holiday…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… that much from the policy of segregation of the South African governments existing before the Afrikaner Nationalist … countries, and some of these gave…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… that had until then lain on the margins of the South African Republic (ZAR). The mineral revolution created both … Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NZASM), the…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… to the struggle through debate. Two years earlier the African National Congress (ANC) had adopted its Programme of … of Young Africa (SOYA) was a youth…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… changes has been a preoccupation of the South African left. In the 1950s it was argued that: the combined … solutions based on non-racial unity and the need…