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ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… spread around the Witwatersrand in 1944 and 1945 and the African Mineworkers strike of 1946 were still fresh in the … J. B. Marks and Moses Kotane and Yusuf…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… Slaves, San, Khoikoi, Coloureds , Indians , Europeans, and African women and men all participated in domestic duties … where it suddenly became a job …
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…
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…
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… South African History Online (SAHO) is hosting an intergenerational …
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…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… police surveillance. The initial conquest left the African tribes with about 13 percent of the total land area. … families with them. This means that a high…
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…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… used in USA. The government treated Native Americans and African Americans as inferiors, while it treated whites as … had had taken their land. On the other…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… of between 30 000 and 50 000 Africans from surrounding African townships march into the centre of Cape Town led by … , the couples' second daughter. 1961 The…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… understanding should grow among all sections of the South African population that problems can and should be solved … 1990, at Groote Schuur in Cape Town, a…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… resources we mean engineers and technicians) it limits its claims to the taking over of business offices and commercial … may be traced. We observe a…
The Detention Weapon
… trial was introduced as a permanent feature of South African life in 1963, deaths in detention have occurred as a … since 1960 is a serious indictment of the…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… permanent right of residence. The Volksraad of the South African Republic (as the Transvaal was then known) passed the … from acquiring citizenship or owning…
ArticlePoqo
… movement of its time. Its aim was to overthrow the South African government in order to replace it with a socialist African state. The word 'poqo' means …
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
… Aristide and Madame Aristide; President of the Pan African Parliament, the Hon Gertrude Mongella; Ministers and … spiritual and material fulfilment of each…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Second Joint Sitting of the Third Democratic Parliament Cape Town: February 11 2005
… Aristide and Madame Aristide; President of the Pan African Parliament, the Hon Gertrude Mongella; Ministers and … spiritual and material fulfilment of each…
ArticleThe Constitution
… South African Constitution of 1996 Republic of South Africa The … it must be fulfilled. Citizenship There is a common South African citizenship. All citizens…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… Click here for a list of World Heritage Sites. South African rock art was only discovered about 350 years ago and … methods and tools to continue this part…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… 1910 February 26, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi supports the African Peoples’ Organisation (APO) resolution to declare … the forerunner, to the formal…
ArticleThe “Wind of Change” speech
… British Prime Minister, 3 February 1960; to the South African Parliament, Cape Town. …
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union
… (ICU) came about after the ICU strike in Cape Town when African labour leader, H Selby Msimang convened a general …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… of the fact whether he was an Indian, coloured or African. The only thing that mattered was that the people … of a second class warrant officer, and…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… “the TRC was a prudent step for reconciling the South African community”. The broad objectives of the Commission … political repression’. It has been argued…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… command respect. Could the highest structures of the South African judiciary - the Supreme Court and the Appellate … that depicts the Court's logo - a…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… landclaim. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in African studies and philosophy in December 2014. Patricia has … from McGill University with a Bachelors of…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… The African National Congress (ANC) in exile developed strategies … to question the National Party’s vision of what South African society should be…
ArticleSweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU)
… broke away and affiliated with the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU). In 1986 the Food and Canning …
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… to his subjects, most of whom practised indigenous West African spiritual traditions. 21 This tolerance was itself … architectural style - a tradition that…