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ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… interned in the Yeravda Prison soon after return to India from England. Released unconditionally by Government at night … Prison). Started at noon a…
ArticleIndia, Mughal Empire, 16-19th Century
… society The Moghuls were a powerful Muslim family who came from lands that are today part of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. … easily storm them. When the enemy…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… of micro-credit occurs where workers take out loans from the farm owners, locking workers in a cycle of debt. Farms are located many kilometres away from the…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… in the folk memory of Afrikaner Nationalism. However, far from being the peaceful and God-fearing process which many … state'. The men, women and children…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… explores many of the conventional themes one would expect from a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, from racial discrimination to injustice. However,…
National Land Committee
… of land reform and should not be considered in isolation from the three land reform programmes and rural development … must address the particular problems…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… in Braamfontein. Over the next three years Kotane moves from job to job but is dissatisfied by his low wages and the … and political editor of Umsebenzi…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… the first Johannesburg Biennale titled Africus, running from 28 February – 30 April 1995, represented the lifting of … The nervous condition of welcoming an…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… rights in the area between the Caledon and Orange Rivers; from present day Wepener to Zastron, and the area north of … resources caused these larger groups…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… major projects. To achieve this, SAHO secured funding from the CATHSSETA to implement a Graduate Development … for a period of 6 months, and through this,…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… Eugène Casalis and Constant Gosselin,missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Society, to the region. Casalis … by South Africa, which demands the expulsion…
African Art Centre
… Design, and print making. Today the centre operates from the premises in Florida Road, Durban . It is the longest … Reuben Ndwandwe, among the many others…
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
… to the Constitution and the law, to transform our society from its unjust past and to deliver the fundamental rights in … is one such national institution,…
ArticleEarly civilisations
… often believed and accepted cruel dictators as messengers from their Gods and followed their orders without question. … Also note, there may be minor changes…
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… a federation of Black women after Fatima Meer returned from the USA, where Black American women were moved by the … faced by Black South African women. The…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… established. 1889 Cecil Rhodes already extremely wealthy from diamond mining, set his ambitions north of the Limpopo … to look for migrant workers outside…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… viewed it as a puppet for the government. But key figures from the SAIO defected to the National Indian Council, which … in Newlands, Cape Town. The council…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… that helped dismantle apartheid by the late 1980s. From the beginning of the 20 th century Black workers in … ANC activists were banned, and by 1965 Sactu…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… gold and other commodities like salt across the Sahara from West Africa , while spices had been shipped from India and the Far East through Muslim and…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… leaves for England to study law. He was excommunicated from the Modh Vania caste for crossing the “black water”. 1891 August, M.K. Gandhi returns from…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… there is still attachment to the soil, differs greatly from that of the Free State and the Cape countryside where, … on commercial farms. These in turn are…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… pages of hand-written testimony taken down word-for-word from some of the last /Xam speakers in the 1860s and 1870s. … Context of the Human Figure in the…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… and his mother a domestic servant. He was expelled from school for neglecting his studies and found work at the … Lenin and Trotsky who dared to challenge…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… in the eastern Elliotdale district trace their descent from shipwreck survivors. During the apartheid era, it was a … its contribution to Stone Age research…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… From voyages of trade and discovery to colonisation: This … laws. These settlers often excluded indigenous inhabitants from their society or killed many of…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… Afrikaner trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River and settled … town On 23 February 1854, the British…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… and tobacco. Large and small trade unions, mainly from the Rand, also affiliated to CNETU. At the time, CNETU claimed to be have about 37,000 members from 25…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… into a coalition to deal with the economic problemsarising from the depression and to settle finally the question of the … Smuts formed a new Ministry, which…
Local Government
… When disaffected groups of Dutch farmers from the Cape reached the Trans-Gariep region, they brought … it was unable to raise the necessary funds it needed…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
… movement. LESTER: We all feel a repugnance for violence from whatever source, but it is especially unhelpful, in … were aroused. Councillors were called upon…