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ArticleA change to armed struggle and the state’s intensified repression 1960s
With no discernable change in government policies, some members of the African National Congress (ANC) began to move away from peaceful protest. The ANC…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
In 1940, Alfred Xuma was elected the new president of the African National Congress (ANC), and a period of greater action was introduced. Xuma was still…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1990s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1980s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1970s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students'…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Walker and Tom Lodge. According to Lodge,…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… music began in 1912 with the first commercial recordings. 1920s Marabi's melodies found their way into the sounds of … on American swing groups, which began…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
1920 January, Gandhi wrote to the press on the South African Appellate Court's judgment in the case of the Krugersdorp Municipality vs. Mohamed Dadoo. The…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… in indigenous jazz took place. Early beginnings In the 1920s and 1930s the urban culture of the slumyards, centred …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… when India was no longer under British control. From the 1920s the organization functioned under the umbrella … when India was no longer under British…
Conference Programme: The Durban Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1920-1929
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga/maskhandi of the hostel … thugs, and is probably derived from…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… discrimination against Indian traders in Natal. From the 1920s the organization functioned under the umbrella …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… of autonomy in matters relating to land tenure. In the 1920s it was reported in Pondoland that headmen and chiefs … is located in land he acquired at…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… to measures and laws affecting Black people. In the 1920s, the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) already had … leadership positions in their…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… in 1952 it became the ‘Day of the Covenant’. Since the 1920s, the day was also used by the ANC, SACP and other … Hertzog . Thus, the 16th of December,…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… step up its activities. Labour shortages worsened in the 1920s, when the Native Recruiting Corporation employed local … to situate transit points in…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… “fragmentation of electricity production”. [11] In the 1920s, electricity “shifted to the national arena” to support … at cost price to the VFTPC). [23]…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1920 - 1939
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… in South Africa. The organised labour movement until the 1920s consisted mainly, but not exclusively, of members from … mainly of White working class members…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… the white liberals in the Joint Councils Movement. The 1920s - Women, employment and the changing economic scene ↵ In the 1920s, with the First World War …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… their homeland in the reserves. In the second half of the 1920s, the JMC attempted to enforce some of the provisions of …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…