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ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… On 23 March 1954 the executives of the ANC, South African Indian Congress, South African Congress of Democrats and the newly formed South African Coloured…
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…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… training workshop that was founded in 1971 by the South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) in Johannesburg. … political theatre aimed at engaging…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… forced the new urban European educated and traditional African leadership to establish the first national political formation the South African Native…
ArticleCommercial, Catering & Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA)
… of one union in one industry. SACCAWU (The South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union)is a … years. SACCAWU is affiliated to the Congress of…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was … No. 44 of 1950 . This law not only…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… is exposed to a mediated version of Marcus Garvey’s Pan-African liberation for black people via village meetings … appointed its Treasurer. 1946 While the…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… resistance programmes such as: The Defiance campaign The African National congress The Freedom Charter The women … Image source Under the apartheid system,…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… doctrine. Themba Sono was elected president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). He was also co-founder … Black Consciousness doctrine. AZASO…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… doctrine. Themba Sono was elected president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). He was also co-founder … Black Consciousness doctrine. AZASO…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… leader was accountable to his people. The Black South African population was organised into group with a … of setting up new separate political institutions…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… (AZASO): A summary Following the banning of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) a new student’s structure … United Democratic Front (UDF) and the…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… of gold.... Build-up to the rebellion The Anglo-Boer/South African War of 1899 to 1902 caused extreme disruptions in the … and hence poorly paid labour…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… education”, the threatened extension of the pass system to African women, the forcible removal of Africans from the … that they were unequal, inferior and…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… the regions of the A.N.C. covering various strata of the African people, but also because of the militancy which … Our demands were clearly formulated by the…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… 1986, p.170), leaving them searching for a role in South African society. This idea will also be examined, along with … p.170), leaving them searching for…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art … overtly political work. The involvement…
ArticleXhosa
… one of the 11 official languages recognized by the South African Constitution, and in 2006 it was determined that just … Among the most successful of the…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… organisations engaged in arts and culture within the South African democratic movement as a way of uniting activists and … Jeeva Rajgopaul, and Myron Peters …
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…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… local militias from the earliest days of all their West African missions. [19] The Nova Scotians formed the core of … the Temne, a detachment of European…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 1
… not marginalised or out-competed, but shared the southern African farming landscape with farmers over much of the last … of rock art …
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822. The changes wrought on African societies by the imposition of European colonial rule … not simply a matter of Europeans…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… of shrewd Chinese, Indian, white and in a few instances, African businessmen, who drained the masses very discreetly. … divide man from beast. " Sophiatown…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… district of Cape Town. Seven foreigners from different African countries were killed on the Cape Flats. Amongst … in the same area. 2013 On 27 February 2013,…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… 1980s was a decade which became a turning point in South African history. Popular protest by masses of ordinary South … (but still powerless) level of…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… On 23 March 1954 the executives of the ANC, South African Indian Congress, South African Congress of Democrats and the newly formed South African Coloured…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… schools and colleges. The UDF and Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called for a two-day strike.In … many of its leaders were detained, and…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… parties became centres of community life and gave the African working classes a new sense of identity. This is how … ending during the second half of the…