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PAC office bearers
… of Azania (PASMA) The Pan Africanist Movement (PAM) Young African Christian Movement (YACM) National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) African Women’s…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… country to appeal to the UN on the basis of how South African Indians were being wrongfully racially segregated and … which is being boycotted. To this end,…
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…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… South African History Online believes that history is made every … SANDF soldiers. South Africa April 2 2013 Jacob Zuma South African troops to pool out of…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… are imprisoned. Leabua rules until 1986 1980 The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) is … eight others killed in a raid into Lesotho…
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… a tradition that is still used in South Africa. Many South African cultures have storytellers who don’t only tell us … disagree. Gcina Mhlope, copyright…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… constitution. The moment which changed the path of South African history came after long and tension-ridden … negotiations held between 1991 and 1992. The…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… the Eastern Cape. Image source Growing up he learnt about African history and the unfair discrimination faced by … and rights to self-determination. Mandela…
Abbreviations - Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… (Germany) SA : Salvation Army (England) SABMS : South African Baptist Missionary Society (Cape of Good Hope) SACIM : South African Compounds and Interior…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… a history for the majority of present-day southern African and South African citizens. The term ‘Iron Age’ is a convenient label … · When, why and…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… in multilingual and multinational settings on South African mines [writers spell this pidgin as either Fanagalo … of contact Fanakalo is the lingua franca of…
ArticleThe Mendi Decoration of Bravery
… The Decoration is awarded to South African citizens who have performed an extraordinary act of … Mendi - represents the courage of many black South African…
Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… http://www.lessonplanet.com/lesson-plans/african-kingdoms …
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… In 2002 the South African Society of Artists, the oldest surviving organisation … divisions, and that it demanded the recognition of South African art at an…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… militarised and heavily policed all aspects of South African society - which heightened feelings of mutual … allowed the state to ‘legitimately’ use not only…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Islands of Lamu and Pate into important centres of trade. African groups on the coast gradually develop the Swahili … taken by the Arabs. Arab sultans…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… of the characteristics that have come to frame the South African experience. It was profoundly oppressive. As the … and resistance, is vital for…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… Gadija Bazier Samuels represents a generation of South African activists who transitioned from opposing apartheid to …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… 26 February, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi supports the African People's Organisation's (APO) resolution to declare … negotiates with the Union Government on…
ArticleNew Africa Theatre Project
… space with means formally or informally for relevant South African themed theatre, which defied apartheid laws. It was … for more educators in drama within…
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… and passes for women. Photo by Drum photographer © Baileys African History Archive Labour Issues Working Life Factories, … and Political program for 1928…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… groups of people such as the Khoikhoi , San , slaves and African people further inland fought to extricate themselves … to occupy centre stage in shaping the…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
… It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a … us to understand the interaction between the world, the…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 1: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… This topic describes the history of the southern African kingdoms of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe … goods with Arab and Portuguese merchants…
Chapter III - The world outside
… This sadistic compulsion remained enshrined in South African law, but the reality of it was hidden, high up on the … spoke from the dock in words that have…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional … The period 1950 -1952 began with a commitment to militant African…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… publicly refused to obey their army call-ups by the South African Defence Force (SADF) and were sentenced to up to 18 … in a road accident in the 1990s. The…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… Dennis Brutus called Nortje “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.” [i] Due to the racial oppression … was one of the few poets who presented the…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… build a comprehensive social and political history of this African community. Origins: South Africans of Indian origin … the forbearers of the majority of…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… was the 1946 strike. In response to a call made by the African Mine Workers Union (AMWU), over 60 000 workers went … Party of South Africa (CPSA, later…