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ArticleCensus in South Africa
… From 10 to 31 October 2011, South Africa will be conducting … For example, South Africa’s white population declined from 4.27 million in 1992 to 4.24 million…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… by black women under apartheid. The organisation emerged from AZAPO's recognition that women's oppression required … within the broader liberation struggle…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Conciliation Amendment Act in 1956 to prohibit Africans from joining registered unions. Nevertheless, Sactu’s … become registered for the first time since…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… historical and methodological paths and I have benefited from the advice of many friends and colleagues. Omar Badsha … France, 1870-1914 (Stanford: Stanford…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… The First Expedition The Portuguese expedition set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in … of a long and mutually profitable…
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… Arnoldus Pannevis, when he studied at the Paarl Gymnasium from 1867. Earlier, in 1873, educationist CP Hoogenhout had … Pannevis the linguist considered…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… discussions. In 1909, a group of Black delegates from the four provinces attended the South African Native … as it was the first joint meeting of Black…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… in it. There were, moreover, no streams that we could turn from their course to help in various works, and especially to … towns and a few smaller villages,…
Mission Stations - N-S
… represented in the accompanying cut. It derives its name from a gentleman, formerly resident in India, who contributed … Mission at this place, which had…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… schools. Most families needed their children to find work from as early an age as possible in order to bring in much … older they would join gangs. Children…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… of the tailors and dressmakers in South Africa had come from Eastern Europe. They had brought with them a militant … Afrikaans-speaking girls who had come…
Learning about history through objects
… objects are called artefacts. The word artefact comes from the Latin words arte meaning skill and facere meaning to … follow. Remember that sometimes we…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… demographics of the University have altered fundamentally from an exclusively White (Caucasian) Afrikaans population to … students led by UPrising, which…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… points of embarkation. The area indentured Indians came from, their caste, employers and places of employment, … as passenger Indians then their records may…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… his people settle to the west of the Fish River, an area from which the Dutch colonial administration had driven the … of Commissioner-General in order to…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 6) A … In the arrests, indictments and trials that occurred from the 1940s to…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… what they perceived as their country's social problems as from the 1870s onwards. Fear of cholera, small pox, and … Africans to Uitvlugt, a sewage farm…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… ensuing confrontation a policeman named Moyi was removed from one of the vans and killed. On 14 April 1962 police … during 1962. His headless body was…
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
… Court in a variety of ways: as the result of an appeal from a judgment of the High Court or the Supreme Court of … the case is set down on a certain date so…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the Atlantic Coast to central parts of the Sahara desert … [xi] . Sundiata built a vast empire…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… still has to be done, to extricate millions of our people from the conditions of poverty, of racism, of sexism and violations of their human dignity, from…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the … 1.'Asiatics' are in the future to be…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… Black population of South Africa, prevented the British from exterminating the Boers. By this, I mean that the … saw the conflict as futile). A number of…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… that did not share its policies and approaches, from the CPNU to the African National Congress (ANC) , as … when over 2000 White and non-White…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act. They are prevented from speaking in eight major centres. May 5 - May 6 , … Protest and Mourning, when all Blacks are…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… 1899 Herman Tobiansky purchases land from the Johannesburg Municipality to develop as a … Duration of the destruction and removal of the community from…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… 1920s consisted mainly, but not exclusively, of members from the White working class. Since its formation the CPSA … Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… ). Forced by deteriorating material conditions, resulting from economic depression in the 1930s, poor white men … movement that would cater for soldiers…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… and laid down demands. In Cradock, Eastern Cape students from seven schools boycotted the transfer of Mathew Goniwe , … to transfer Goniwe was part of a plan…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… Consequently, the destruction of Sophiatown moved from being a matter of local government interest to that of … cost housing in Meadowlands was apace. The…