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ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… by the government April, Indentured labour prohibited from 1 July. October, The South African Indian Committee … Bill is passed which prohibited new…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… Separate Representation of Voters Bill to remove Coloureds from the common roll was enacted. The apartheid policy of the … and regulations of the National…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… and to articulate the grievances of the Indian people. From 1917 to 1923, events on the international level were … South African Indian Congress (SAIC) was…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… In 1977, compulsory national service had been increased from one to two years, followed by a series of annual … that helped it to undermine the police and…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… apartheid, the non-racial Congress Alliance, (2) formed from previously organised racially-based and worker groups, … role of women in the liberation…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… children about what happened, and so it was passed on from one generation to the next. In this way history was kept … people knew how to treat certain…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… rank. But he also was famous for telling stories. He moved from shebeen to shebeen telling stories and jokes in exchange … redirect. And the subject Gwala…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… Asian slaves is promulgated. Dlamini chiefdoms move south from Delagoa Bay and settle on land north of the Phongolo … attacks AmaXhosa for cattle. They lift…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… Basuto murder several Transvaal citizens travelling back from Natal. 1867 Paul Kruger is forced to retire from Soutpansberg. 1869 Paul Kruger forces peace…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… went by the name of Louis. Louis had arrived at the Cape from Mauritius at a very young age and by 1808 was in his … unnamed and two Khoikhoi men. The group…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as … different forms of art for the exhibition ranging from…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… was W. Collins. The APO, although it recruited its members from the relatively small group of educated and economically … also put pressure on the Cape…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… Depression Bram begins "devilling" (taking on assignments from senior advocates to gain experience for little or no … a member of the Communist Party of…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… in South Africa. The magazine brought together women from different communities facing the same issues to realize … In a letter written to the editors of…
South African Labour history
… developed until it affected every part of their lives, from the cradle to the grave. Extract taken from the introduction to Luli Callinicos' book 'Place in…
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… members generally appear in masks to protect themselves from reprisal attacks. Picture: www.bhdani.com The … wounded. Staggie tried to escape by car, but was…
Prehistory of the Nelspruit area
… zone). This emphasis characterises Nguni people from northern KwaZulu-Natal . Another settlement feature … while another byre on the down-hill side is…
The Legal Veneer
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of … conferences and spontaneous gatherings of all kinds. Since 1976, the minister has imposed a…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 4: Communication through time
… an example. We then examine modern forms of communication from the development of a postal system right through to the … would have dreamed of all the things…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… all over the world. Rising sun - the new dawn emerging from Africa. Mapungubwe hill - forms the background, a … present in the Kingdom. Mapungubwe sceptre -…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… MK, the ANC waged the armed struggle and obtained support from some African countries and the Soviet bloc for its … in of democratic rule in 1994. In the…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… Ismail Mohamed as presiding judges. About 228 delegates from nineteen political parties attended and pledged their … Chris Hani, SACP Helen Suzman Nelson…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… and Howard Ngcobo, a PAC executive committee member from Durban, drove to Cape Province to assess the state of … were to prepare themselves, he said, to…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… months for a few hours a day, ended up working for years from 8 A.M. to 4 P.M. When one first arrived in prison they … women friends were hurt more by the…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… Alfred Milner engendered considerable resistance from Black people and led to the formation and growth of new … forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… of liberty binds us to the pursuit of the goals of freedom from want, freedom from hunger, freedom from deprivation, freedom from ignorance, freedom from …
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 … 184-5). This chapter traces the history of the Seminary from foundation until the end of the…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… into a new era of action and multi-party interaction. From this era a new breed of female leadership emerged, … they worked hard to form valuable alliances…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 … need for more teachers in an expanding economy (Simmons, 1976) - but a tiny number of women now…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to collect taxes from the Hlongwa and Cele clans in the Silverstream district. … imprisonment and 25 lashes. On 20…