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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…
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…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… inhabitants. The town has a very picturesque, but wild- African appearance. I was much pleased with the very … On my last visit the population of this…
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…
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
… with FIAC until November 27. The 66-year-old South African artist has had a storied career, well-known for his … The one thing that Covid-19 has shown us is…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… Attempts to reform this system were made by the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) which appointed … A series of reforms were suggested…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… and it is a mirror in which reflects the glories of the African past. It is one of Southern Africa's great … of rock art in the world. The figure on the…
The appointment of Judges
… Africa and Others (2004) - The responsibility of the South African government to its citizens who are arrested in other … Ltd t/a Metrorail (2004) - the…
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…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… elections, Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman , leader of the African People’s Organisation (APO) was elected to the Cape … Nationalist Party headed by General…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… São Rafael and São Gabriel . They sail along the southern African coast on the way to India. They put foot on South African soil for the first time on 8…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… The largest and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion … elements which viewed Lekganyane, the founder, as an African…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… Since 1994, when democracy was established, South African students had their own struggles. In recent years, … were led by the student organisation called…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… between the San and the Khoikhoi. (4) Total: 17 Where African farmers were settled Traditional Xhoza women smoking … the Eastern Cape where the Transkei and…