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ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… called The Anvil and the Hammer , which won prizes at film festivals in London and Leipzig. Brooks also produced …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
22 June 1946 —The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second…
Provincial government and symbols
Go to the places section of the SAHO site, and read about the South Africa’s nine provinces. Also visit SAHO feature on national symbols. …
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… for roles in the television show, Melrose Place and the film, Who’s the Boss), used her Twitter account (a social …
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… England and the United States. Leveson visited Kodak's film studios and studied "leading" foreign photographers, … Photography” The Journal of the Society…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
Following on from Part 1, this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty years, ESKOM’s…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… in the past. History has been recorded in writing, on film and photographs and in oral records of people who were …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… solidarity to the 1956 Treason Trialists, Cape Town hosted film shows to raise money for the Treason Trail Fund. …
South African and World leaders
… United Nations more than once to act against apartheid. Film makers, writers and journalists used their talent to …
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… Oskar Barnack developed a compact camera which used 35 mm film in 1913, after some improvements it entered the market …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… South African apartheid. 1951 Willard Cele appeared in the film The Magic Garden, which spawned a legion of more …
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… Boson, Massachusetts. He completed a graduate degree in a film and television programme at New York University, and …
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… years after the original incident. Preller produced a film, The Voortrekkers, in 1916. The script was published in …
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
How cases reach the Constitutional Court A case can reach the Constitutional Court in a variety of ways: as the result of an appeal from a judgment of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
Transformations in southern Africa after 1750 Source Based Questions The following exercise has been taken from the 2012 History Grade 10 Exemplar. [1] …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… development. Nkululeko has also worked in the Film and TV industry as an actor, director and script … on two SAMA nominated albums by an artists who’s work,…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the British Government called upon the dominions in the British Empire to come to its assistance. The South…
OSEO report on Allan Boesak
Office of Serious Economic Offences Report The Scandinavian donors got the Johannesburg legal firm, Bell, Dewar & Hall, to investigate. The ANC could not…
Polokwane an Overview
'Street soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… Games are best remembered as it was depicted in the film “Chariots of Fire. ” The film was produced in 1981. At the Games 3 092 athletes from …
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
How do we find out about the past? For recent events where there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events earlier than this,…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
This article deals with values and education in South Africa, and more specifically the proposed 'pledge'. Please read the article and send us your comments on…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
1869 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born in Porbandar, Gujarat, India 1883 Gandhi marries KasturbaiMakhanji in an arranged child marriage 1888 …
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE - CLICK HERE The Wits History Workshop, the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and South African History…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… although at that time it was still very difficult to buy film. I quickly became very interested in the photographs … asbestos is blue. So I came to a link…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
1918 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is born at Mvezo in the Transkei 1939 He enrols at the University College of Fort Hare. 1940 He is expelled…
Doing Oral History
Edited by Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator…
ArticleSS Clan Stuart
The SS Clan Stuart was blown ashore in 1914 between Glencairn and Simon's Town, along Cape Town’s west coast. The SS in the vessel's name stands for ‘steamship…