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EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… University. A year later he began to write fiction, with his first book, Dusklands, being published in 1974. Following … 1999, Coetzee won the Booker Prize a…
Chapter 14
… At the Conference itself Dr. Xuma was conspicuous by his absence and it became necessary for the sponsors … the Non-Europeans, with the alarm of the people…
![”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/field/archiveimages/social_conditions_among_bantu_women_and_girls.jpg?itok=-8M0Ng6G)
Archive”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
… their husbands, are forced in most cases to go out and work, to bring sufficient into the homes to keep their … has gone to town and left her, forgetting…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… and in South Africa increasingly turned to the mines for work. By the early 1990s, an estimated 100,000 Basuto worked … homelands in and around the Orange…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… for economic reasons. In other words they are admitted as work-seekers, not as settlers'. - Dr. W. W. M. Eiselen, … the opposite of what the measures contain…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… During the 1980s, the apartheid government came under increasing internal pressure. … system of governance tampered with, but did not challenge apartheid…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… of the people have been robbed of their land and forced to work for a pittance on farms and plantations, in mines and … Africa continues to be financed…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… Rugby Board as a result of the nation's continuation of apartheid policies. 1988 Danie Craven and Louis Luyt of the … away. The challenge lies with South…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… rule in South Africa and encouraged the struggle against apartheid to continue. In his speech he stated that: "Throughout these long years the … Nyerere…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… Netherlands came out in support of the newly independent American colonies and declared war on England. At this stage …
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… as important in the making of modern South Africa as the American Civil War was in the history of the United States. …
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. With a strong work ethic and passion for wine, he soon built up a booming wine export business. After starting his…
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… When the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in 1948, certain … (1927) were enforced to deal with resistance against the apartheid government…
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
… seriously ill with cancer, was released a few weeks before his death on 8 May 1975. Founded in 1951, Drum Magazine was instrumental in the struggle against…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… which various political reforms were instituted by the apartheid state and there was an intensification of political … bantustan. Buthelezi was intensely…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… President General of the African National Congress. His dark face was softly etched in the lamplight, … at that Evaton meeting that he said, "People ask me…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… mental institutions before settling in South Africa. At his trial, he blamed his actions on a tapeworm in his stomach. This led to him … sentenced to spend…
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was marked by a call for his release by China. This was publicized in the Communist … was made public by the United Nations Centre…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… Visually it is very satisfying. It may not be a great work of art, but it is certainly a fine Memorial, beautifully … in the First World War, attaining the…
Address to the National Health Summit, 19 November 2001
… antagonistic. Our public health service was split on apartheid lines and resources were concentrated for … planning since 1999. All Ministries and…
Mission Stations - I-L
… was used for a school. There were a few (Xhosa) huts near his dwelling, and fifteen kraals within six miles. "At … Umhala's Caffers. The Missionary Julius…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… for land reform as a fundamental requirement of post-apartheid transformation” and that the decision to boycott … Movements. The LPM chose not to join the…
EventPik Botha is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs
… Department of Foreign Affairs immediately after completing his law studies. He also served as South Africa's permanent … Nations (UN). Read more about Botha…
EventP.W. Botha appears in court
… the documents, which were handed over by the TRC for his involvement of the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by his…
EventBotha found Guilty
… for investigating human rights abuses committed during the apartheid era. Botha was fined ten thousand rand and given a … rights abuses perpetrated by…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… my Head of Department had tried to remove me entirely on his own initiative, and this led to his academic career rather than mine collapsing a short while ……
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to death. A prior attempt on his life since becoming Prime…
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… Judge Pieter Combrinck finds Dirk Coetzee, Apartheid policeman and Vlakplaas assassination squad … activist Griffiths Mxenge. Mxenge was murdered in 1981 and…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… before a vote was to be taken, Arthur Chaskalson put up his hand. He said that we were posing the wrong question. … die for the fulfilment of democracy. The…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… General J.C. Smuts passed away at the age of 80 on his Doorkloof farm in Irene, near Pretoria. His ashes were scattered on Smuts Koppie near the farm. As ……