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The Sweet Workers’ Union
… into being. Sweet workers were divided equally between Afrikaner women and African men. Within a few months of …
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… the case against accused one in the Boeremag trial. The 22 Afrikaner right-wing group members face numerous charges … 13 August, Judgment in the treason…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
… buildings built of sandstone. [iii] There is also a strong Afrikaner presence in Pretoria, thus the Afrikaans language …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… arose when the National Party, who represented ethnic Afrikaner Nationalism, won the National election on the basis … a group who pleged not to rest before…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… ethics that were taught by churches other than the Afrikaner denominations, for example the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1948 the Afrikaner National Party won…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… of General Barry Hertzog in 1914. The NP championed Afrikaner interests, advocating separate development for the … White groups and independence from Britain…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the … against farmers, made them enemies of the…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… of General Barry Hertzog in 1914. The NP championed Afrikaner interests, advocating separate development for the … White groups and independence from Britain…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… explorer and botanist surveys the !Garib River with Klaas Afrikaner, leader of the Afrikaner family and clan. In December Klaas Afrikaner is at Warmbad…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… cent. Reaction of white miners The strikers were backed by Afrikaner commandos, like this group manning a roadblock … a bid to capture the city. On 8 March,…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… of Zambia took up the cause of advancing the Pan-African ideal. A series of Pan-African Congresses were convened to … and Nigeria’s Abubakar Tafa Balewa,…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, who has died, was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous global century, and into the local conditions…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… of a government controlled newspaper, The Citizen . An Afrikaner millionaire Louis Luyt apparently owned this …
ArticleSS Mendi
… quickly approved despite lingering resentment among the Afrikaner representatives towards the British over actions …
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… purposes and role of higher education in South Africa; the ideal institutional landscape; appropriate transformation …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… and sheep) farming than to growing crops, which was ideal for the Trek Boers with their livestock. A blauwbok …
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… society also implied movement towards equivalence with the ideal models back at "Home". Hely-Hutchinson, in opening the … of the 1903 Exhibition, much…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Glossary
… American Dream : The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any …
First Matabele War
… became premier of South Africa with the support of the Afrikaner Bond. Rhodes' grand imperial vision for a British …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the English colonial territories and recently defeated Afrikaner republics agreed to create a new white minority …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… reintroduces the strict segregationist policies of the old Afrikaner Republics and harsh new immigrant measures to …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… had the most "pure blood" of all the people on earth. The ideal Aryan had pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes. …
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… FN is returning to contest 2019’s polls. Prominent Afrikaner activist Dan Roodt appears to have exited the … Daniel Lotter now at the helm. The FN wants a…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… their place alongside the country’s politically dominant Afrikaner population. Some Jews also empathised with South … because they saw parallels between Nazi…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
Explain to what extent Stalin succeeded in transforming Russia into a superpower by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin’s death in 1925, after…
ArticleTswana
… as a Crown colony. By the late nineteenth century, Afrikaner and British officials had seized almost all Tswana territory, dividing it among the Cape…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… how Afrikaans women formed 'wives clubs' to support the Afrikaner cause of 'Broederbond'. Callinicos writes that as … the "transmitters of the mother tongue…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… to consolidate and entrench its rule. The British and Afrikaner landowners and industrialists set in motion a …
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… such as Sophiatown the resistance against the oppressive Afrikaner government steadily grew. In this trying time, … of the language barrier between the black…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… main concerns was to avoid discord between English and Afrikaner workers, in the hope of a united, white working … in 1913. The Labour Party saw the union of…