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Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… most of the land was designated for white South Africans under the Group Areas Act with black and coloured South … The committee unified all Bay Area anti…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
South Africa battles water scarcity as it is one of the thirty driest regions in the world. On average the country receives 500 mm rainfall in a year. [1] As…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… has the colonial state employed photographic imagery to construct and preserve white hegemony? How have people …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… about how the country had been brought to the point where under the National Party the ideology of apartheid had become … I had realised, but from the…
The Afrikaner Bond
… He wanted to see South Africa united as a republic, under the control of Afrikaners, and free of British … British took over the Cape in 1806, Afrikaners had…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… security forces over detainees, and many of those detained under the Terrorism Act reported abuse by police forces. … defined, and non-communists were…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… evening. In 1958 Lenasia was proclaimed an Indian township under the Group Areas Act. The minutes of a meeting of the … City Council, dated 31 October 1961,…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… to democracy. Two months later, the Interim Constitution under which South Africa was to be governed during the … observed by a 60-member Commonwealth…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… 1974 SASO is listed as one of the affected organisation under the Affected Organisation Act of 1974. This prohibited … the ascension of FRELIMO (Mozambican…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… 1974 SASO is listed as one of the affected organisation under the Affected Organisation Act of 1974. This prohibited … the ascension of FRELIMO (Mozambican…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… was later named the TIC when India was no longer under British control. From the 1920s the organization functioned under the umbrella organization, the South…
Work and education
… increase in women entering vocational fields, they remain under-represented in certain areas - for example science and technology. Women are also under…
Mission Stations - G-H
… original founder of the institution: benches are standing under its shade, and this is a favourite place of resort … and degraded portion of his fellow…
Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)
… activity. The IIE registered as a correspondence college under the Bantu Education Act (1953), which ensured that the … South African Labour Bulletin , was…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… will truly mean the freedom of the individual. We must construct that people-centred society of freedom in such a … will, within the next 100 days, implement…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… the Ngwaketse and their ruler Makaba. 1826 The Ndwandwe, under Zwide’s successor Sikhunyani, again challenge Shaka’s … they are broken up by colonial forces…
ArticleSASO Bannings
… SASO came under increasing attack from the Government. In March 1973, … In 1974 it was listed as an “affected” organisation under the Affected Organisation…
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… and its policies. Its heyday was certainly 1965-1977, under the editorship of Donald Woods. At the age of 24, … Goodwin bought the paper and became the new…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… be aware that most of the sources left for historians to construct narratives of precolonial and colonial history in … inserted themselves in the political…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… has fluctuated between 100 and 600. This includes children under the age of 18 years, some as young as 14. Records kept … Banning and restriction of persons…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… for South Africa by placing their marks or thumb print under a legal decree that read as follows, ‘We the … we may respectively be allotted by the Natal…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… the first campaign pursued jointly by all racial groups under the leadership of the ANC and the South African Indian … of Unjust Laws. I shall obey the…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… 1870s settler and colonial determination to bring Blacks under firm political control had undermined the hard-won … colonies, Boer republics and independent…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… a large-scale war was precipitated when some frontiersmen under Barend Lindeque, including the lawless Coenraad de Buys … 2012] In spite of the fact that two…
Doing Oral History
… and the South African History Project and presented, under the leadership of Dr. Johan Wassermann, by the History … labourers during the late 1800s to early…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… fact that the scheme was segregated. The DCC refused to construct further houses for Indians because of their … the Indian Penetration Commission ( Broome…
First Matabele War
… and headed in a south-westerly direction towards Bulawayo under the overall command of Major Patrick Forbes. Their objective was to overcome the power of the…
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
… NAPAC was founded on 25 July 1963 under Chris Lombard as the first director. The first office … NAPAC was later replaced by a newly formed entity under CEO…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… argue that it was set off by the rise of Zulu Kingdom under King Shaka Zulu (that formed part of the Mthethwa … kingdom and rise of the Zulu state and its…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… against the carrying of passes by women. February 11 , Under an agreement with General J.C. Smuts , Gandhi secures … South African Native National Congress …