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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 …
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…
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…
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…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… to voice protest to a large audience. The South African government mobilised its riot police to break groups … of Orlando West AME church. Two years later…
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…
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…
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 EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
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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…
BiographyJan Smiesing
… the Cape, the least social value was accorded to the East African enslaved people who were housed separately in the …
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… were stalinists and socialists of various hues in the African National Congress (and its ancillary movements) … movement COSATU, have been active…
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,…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… land claim. 1996 February, The Green Paper on the South African Land Policy is published. Subsequently, about 30 … use or alternative land”. April, The White…
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…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… that they no longer provided a subsistence base for African families; they lived in extreme poverty. Urban blacks … CYL began to set the tone for a new…
‘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…