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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'…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
The formation of the Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) Africanist Task Force (ATF) preceded the formation of party’s military wing Poqo in February 1960. After…
Why did so few Black South Africans make films before the 1990s?
There are less than a handful of black directors who made films before the 1990s. The reasons for this are the same reasons that kept black people out of other…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
During the 1980s, the apartheid government came under increasing internal pressure. The National Party attempted a political solution to the crisis it faced by…
ArticleTrade unionism blossoms and women become more assertive, 1930s
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… impact. Township music was also heavily influenced in the 1940s and 1950s by American music and American movies. Hollywood's two all-Black musicals in the…
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…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
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…
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
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… considerable popularity, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s: star groups such as The Jazz Maniacs, The Merry … first African recording to sell more than 100…
Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940
Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… African Indian Congress (SAIC) . However, in the 1930s -1940s the TIC experienced more radical leadership when Dr. … which it helped form along with the NIC…
Letter from Max Gordon 6 to Fanny Klenerman 7, 21 December 1940
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… (South African Indian Congress). However, in the 1930s-1940s the NIC experienced more radical leadership when Dr. … in militant struggles. Like the TIC, in…
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…
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…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
1870s-1880s Discovery of a reliable water source. "To the present generation Currie's Fountain is but a name which marks the recreation grounds below Botanic…
Conference Programme: The Durban Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town in the late 1930s and 1940s stemmed primarily from the dramatic increase in the …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… during the 1930s, increasing significantly in the 1940s. Patterns of migration had also changed by the end of the 1930s and in the early 1940s. Families, as…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… that HIV/Aids might have been introduced to humans in the 1940s or early 1950s. However, in January 2000 (San …
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… the 1920s slums and mensetaal (People's language) of the 1940s and 1950s. This language is made up of Afrikaans and a …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. By the late 1940s the African American intellectual leadership of the … of many Pan-Africanist advocates, as in…