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ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… about it. The below example uses an article from South African History Online, however, a recently written piece can … shirt and cap, presented the Webb…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… left untouched the fundamental cleavages in White South African society. The manner of the country's entry into the … at various stages between 1910 and…
ArticleAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI)
… in 2005, concerned with the lack of engagement by South African artists, art historians and curators with their peers on the African continent. Since then…
ArticleTswana
… form of voluntary work is known as letsema . The South African government has presently adopted the word letsema … were the ancestors, Badimo . Most…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… (State Girls School) building. 1899 Outbreak of South African War. Timeline: Pretoria 1900-1999 1900 Pedestal … 31 May, Treaty of Vereeniging signed, ending…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… nature and basis of the power of chiefs in pre-colonial African societies. They believed that traditional authorities … on the struggles of sharecropping and…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… which succeeded Mapungubwe as the centre of southern African trade. Mapungubwe is a complex society of a much … traded with Arabia, China and India through…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… 1980s was a decade which became a turning point in South African history. Popular protest by masses of ordinary South …
Submissions & winning projects 2009
… Award to learners who most effectively promoted South African heritage. Patricia Vangile Simon, ‘the history of the …
ArticleConference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… Apartheid Struggle" by Norman Levy and "Alex Hepple South African Socialist" by Bob Hepple. Both are part of SAHO's …
ArticleA White Referendum
… Party opposed the measures, arguing that the exclusion of African people from the new system would exacerbate tensions, …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… was meant to dislodge the two groups from an alliance with African nationalists and other anti-Apartheid forces that …
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… the Coloured Labour Party , Black Sash , and the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). NIC and SASO …
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… through the experience of an Americanised Southern African scholar, Camagu, and his interactions between two … text highlights the importance of maintaining…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… Today, January 8th, 1987, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 75 years old. Con sequently, we … proud and historic Jubilee Year. The…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822. The changes wrought on African societies by the imposition of European colonial rule … not simply a matter of Europeans…
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… the symbiotic link between national oppression and South African capitalism. In its vision and programme for a … Editorial Collective Revolutionary programme…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
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ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… ordinary South Africans were deliberately forgotten. South African museums focused on the heritage of white people, and … the policies of apartheid that were…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… Circa 1947 Walter decided to quit his job and join the African National Congress (ANC) full time at this time … a secret meeting of representatives of the…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… in the British Empire to come to its assistance. The South African Prime Minister, General Louis Botha declared his … Botha agreed to raise an army of the…
ArticleHistory of Photography in South Africa
… dispensation. It is against this backdrop that South African History Online (SAHO) is showcasing the different … who have contributed and continue to add to…
ArticleGreater St. Lucia Wetland
… site because it has 5 ecosystems with so many different African plants, animals and birds that exist together and …
Early Resistance, the 1913 Land Act and deputations to London
… The first restriction that the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) aimed to contest was …
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress, …
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… women were moved by the problems faced by Black South African women. The federation grew from monthly meetings to a …
Fictional Cape Town
… these companies turn locations in Cape Town -- an iconic African city -- into European, British or American scenes. So …
ArticlePondoland
… speaking peoples. Pondoland area is situated on the South African coast of the Indian Ocean , in the Eastern Cape … W. (1982). The Political Economy of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… strategic partners;SunAir has been privatised;South African Airways is completing its restructuring towards … government of the people could not ignore the…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… strategic partners; SunAir has been privatised; South African Airways is completing its restructuring towards … government of the people could not ignore the…