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ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… and Howard Ngcobo, a PAC executive committee member from Durban, drove to Cape Province to assess the state of … were to prepare themselves, he said, to…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… months for a few hours a day, ended up working for years from 8 A.M. to 4 P.M. When one first arrived in prison they … women friends were hurt more by the…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… Alfred Milner engendered considerable resistance from Black people and led to the formation and growth of new … forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… of liberty binds us to the pursuit of the goals of freedom from want, freedom from hunger, freedom from deprivation, freedom from ignorance, freedom from …
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 4: Communication through time
… an example. We then examine modern forms of communication from the development of a postal system right through to the … would have dreamed of all the things…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… all over the world. Rising sun - the new dawn emerging from Africa. Mapungubwe hill - forms the background, a … present in the Kingdom. Mapungubwe sceptre -…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… MK, the ANC waged the armed struggle and obtained support from some African countries and the Soviet bloc for its … in of democratic rule in 1994. In the…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… into a new era of action and multi-party interaction. From this era a new breed of female leadership emerged, … they worked hard to form valuable alliances…
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…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to collect taxes from the Hlongwa and Cele clans in the Silverstream district. … imprisonment and 25 lashes. On 20…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… power, but the African populations were totally excluded from the new pact. Not only so: within a short time the … of races which was then to develop as…
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…