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ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… and the early Youth League before them, believed that the African rank and file were politically more advanced than … as the most egregious example of this …
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… Union Federation, Amadou N`diaye, Secretary of the All African Trade Union Federation and revolutionary leaders of … Conference: Report on the Strategy and…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens who have excelled in the fields of arts, … by men and women who carry the colourful South African aloft…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… of the country. These riots continued until 1986, when the African National Congress (ANC) called on South Africans to … international criticism, because ‘it…
ArticleSS Mendi
… Parliament that Britain had requested that the South African Native Labour Contingent provide 10 000 men to work … built in Glasgow and in 1905 registered to…
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Drake Tshenkeng B. NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS ORGANISATION (SASO) Elected at the formal … for the Educational and Cultural Advancement…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… educational system was Euro-centric, and undermined African achievement. The Africanist revival of African history that centred around themes such as African…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… under the umbrella organization, the SAIC (South African Indian Congress). However, in the 1930s-1940s the NIC … Indian Congress, the three later went on to…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… they transplanted their Dutch Reformed theology to the African continent. Jan van Riebeeck formally established the … groups to pray under, one umbrella,…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new democratic … Constitution was also the birth…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… Men's Social Centre in downtown Johannesburg to launch the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). Motivatedby … their desire to shake up the "Old…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… for more than 20 years [ii] . Mzilikazi was a Southern African King who founded the Matebele kingdom, Matebeleland … the Boer-populated Transvaal (former…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… against the apartheid government. In both coloured and African townships in Cape Town protests and against the … security forces led by a Vlakplas based unit…
BiographyJan Smiesing
… the Cape, the least social value was accorded to the East African enslaved people who were housed separately in the …
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… and Black Subjection Bibliography: List of Works Cited Preface This dissertation has been written under the aegis of … acknowledge the help that I have…
ArchiveAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
… at Modderdam High and had joined the Congress of South African Students, under the leadership Ashley, as well as the … successful military operations against…
The Battle of Square Hill
… descent”. [i] According to Article 7 of the South African Defence Force Act 13 of 1912, ‘the obligation to … have felt within his right not to accept an…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… of the Superpowers. Despite its racist policies, the South African government was supported by many governments in the … Britain and the USA. This was…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Party of South Africa might have on Afrikaner, and later African, working class. However the Act was not solely … and demeanour. Blacks were defined as being…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… Communist Party of South Africa, Federation of South African Women, South African Congress of Trade Unions The Rise of Women’s Trade … to become more active…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… base the Ambundu people and was largely supported by other African countries, Cuba and the Soviet Union. The National … while UNITA was able to secure the…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… anti pass campaigns of the 1950s laid the foundation for African communities in townships to mobilize more protests … of passes and demand for a higher…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… for 29 black local authorities and community councils in African townships in November and December - was a success. There were lower percentage polls than…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the Rivonia Trial …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… used to fondly describe the roughly 200 000 white South African men who volunteered to serve in the Union Defence … when the springbok was used as an emblem…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) were restricted. In 1984, PW … 1976 uprisings and their aftermath,…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted … oppression and economic exploitation of…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… Open any school mathematics book and the role of African scholars has been relegated to the category of … was in some way linked to tribalism. The…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… Speech by Oliver Tambo on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the African National Congress ". Lusaka, 8 January 1972 1973 " … ". Address by Oliver Tambo to the…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… Abrahams becomes acquainted with George Pandmore and other African intellectuals such as Kwame Nkrumah. Padmore works at … Allen and Unwin. He was the first…