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ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… In the decade between the formation of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) in 1968 and the banning … their opposition to apartheid. The National…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… of settlement and influenced the ethnic structure of the African population north of the Vaal. The Mfecane began as a … early as the mid 17th century. Some…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… about femicide in South Africa and to pressure the South African government to take action. [9] Similarly, over 200 … Enough. This protest was organized by…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… The Migrant Labour System Emergence of Classes The South African War 1. Discovery of Gold in the Witwatersrand: During … Reef” and turned out to set off the…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… hygiene and ambulance services in support of the South African Second World War effort. The depleted Natal Indian … leadership is split between those who…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… would later escalate into a larger issue during the South African War’ , which lasted from 1899 to 1902 (34, … has caused a cycle of poverty and abusive home…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… formed in 1914, won the most seats, forcing the South African Party into a Fusion with the Unionist Party, and the … party and won the majority of seats…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… from animals to people by 1940 during a war in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau . A plasma sample taken in … died of HIV/Aids. HIV was found in…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… resented the influence of whites thought on determining an African’s future. As an advocate of the Black Consciousness … (Natal University). These students…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… the Church of God and Saints of Christ, which is run by African American missionaries. Mgijima claims to be the prophet of the African continent and the…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… army, Azapo and the ANC in Bekkersdal township, 1994 African Media Online During 1981 tensions between Charterists … proposed a commemoration service for…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… The classroom will focus on: when, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa. The first … societies. The second section will…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… 'South African War ( a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) remains the most … the end of the long process of British conquest of South African societies, both Black and…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… referred to collectively as ‘White’, ‘Coloured’ and ‘African’ lived as neighbours, the Group Areas Act … those who were placed into the category of ‘Native’…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… and confused. 'There is no similar record of what the African children thought, but it is known that they were … Primary School in Cape Town. Sometime in…
The National Fish
… Coracinus capensis The Galjoen is unique to the South African coast. It keeps mostly to shallow water, is often …
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… racial terms that have been used to categorise us - white, African, coloured, Indian - have in many ways become part of …
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism like Capitalism and African Nationalism profoundly shaped the history of the …
Julian Goldswain
… of the Wild Coast" was featured in a special edition on African Photography in Private Magazine (Italian/UK). He is …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… new Constitution is signed, bringing into being the South African Republic. Potchefstroom is made the capital. June, … sympathetic response. 1894 The…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… and was excommunicated. As a result, in 1914 the South African Church of God and Saints of Christ split, with one of … Mgijima’s lawyer contacted the…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… conquered and began to exploit virtually the entire African continent. European powers were slow to realise the … Prior to the conference, European diplomacy…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature Hannah Pagan Abstract The social model of disability has recently been adopted by the…
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… South African History Online (SAHO) is hosting an intergenerational …
The fight against passes continues
… and they had one in Johannesburg too. That was in August 1955. At that conference we also endorsed the Freedom …
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… of South Africa (UNISA) 1942 He starts attending African National Congress (ANC) meetings informally 1943 He … 1985 Mandela rejects, through his daughter,…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… the vacuum created by the government’s suppression of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist … especially among Black workers and the…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… around this campaign, especially in the print media. The African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa (APDUSA), … sisters to sleep with Africans” and of…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… Organisation (AZAPO) , the Labour Party , the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the Natal Indian … armed wings as well as myriad organisations and…