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Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… whom Maharaj was very close. Maharaj grew up with a mixed background, as her mother Josephine was a Catholic Coloured … Africa. Even though, at times, Zarina…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… While looking at the background information on the Russian revolution and the …
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… Background The establishment of the Teachers’ League of South …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
The Mughals were a powerful Turkic-Mongol tribe that originated from Central Asia.[1] The Mughal Empire controlled most of Northern India from the 16th to the…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… National Museum of Military History). Socio-economic background to the 1914 Rebellion The 1914 Rebellion against …
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… appears wanting. It is not only the social and historical background of the “warriors” that needs to be unravelled in …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… documented. However, little of the literature focuses on background explanations as to how developments within …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… to turn to other odd jobs or hire themselves out as studio background musicians”. “The police were something to be …
Key terms and definitions Grade 12 topic 4
Key terms definitions Abolished Officially ended or put to stop, especially a system or an institution Advisory…
ArticleNational Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR)
National Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR) is a network of Christian individuals, congregations and organisations working for justice, reconciliation and…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… countrywide; working-class women with their trade union background also brought a more assertive and impatient …
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… of the battle are a matter of considerable debate. The background to this event can be found in two concurrent …
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… with its white table cloth was always there in the background watching over us. I can still visualise the smelly …
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… the police with the striking Lonmin miners gathered in the background Greg Marinovich, The Stand Image source The next …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… residential and political segregation. It is against this background that Coloured politics took another direction in …
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
… Background Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional …
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… and helped to popularise the concept of Pan-African unity. Background Following the end of the First World War and the …
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… and helped to popularise the concept of Pan-African unity. Background Following the end of the First World War and the …
ArticleZulu
… postcard of Zulu Warriors (note the Europeans in the background) The Zulu are fond of singing as well as dancing. …
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… dawn emerging from Africa. 3. Mapungubwe hill - forms the background, a sandstone hill on mudstone deposit in an arid …
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… with her husband Hugh Masekela . Caiphus started out as a background singer for Miriam whom he and Letta had first met …
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… on their farming activities, killing three. Against this background, the country was entering a new period that would …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to peaceful negotiations to do so now. 9. Against this background, the way is now open to proceed towards …
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… residential and political segregation. It is against this background that Coloured politics took another direction in …
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… groups of people who differed not only in terms of background and language, but also had developed a host of …
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
The Market Photo workshop is a division of the Market Theatre Foundation. Founded by renowned documentary photographer and artist David Goldblatt in 1989, it…
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
NUSAS students set up the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF) in 1972. They worked closely with Harriet Bolton of TUCSA. The aim of the GFWBF was,…
ArticleNdebele
… other groups, Ndzundza men – especially those of chiefly background – continue to practice polygamy. Women must …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… patterns rendered in white or black upon a plain grey background. Although Ndebele polychromatic wall art today …