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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…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… – and still is - a common form of authority within Black African communities. For example, during the pre-colonial … the leader was accountable to their…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… theory' is unreliable - the devastation and carnage by African warriors is exaggerated with every account, the … ousted by Boer intruders. For example, in…
‘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…
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…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, University of Witwatersrand. 1955: Teacher at William Hills High School, Benoni. 1957: … at a conference of the black…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… in one of the last bastions of racist settler rule, South African English speaking society was heavily influenced by … 1963 and 1973 is an important part of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… Afrikaans word for “farmer”. In the context of the South African War and Union, “Boer” refers to the descendants of the Dutch/Afrikaans-speaking settlers in…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… during the mid-twentieth century. At the end of the South African War in the nineteenth century Dutch and English were … as Afrikaners who fought against the…
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…
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…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… a nearby broken bus. 1976 January, Ali Bacher of the South African Cricket Board (SACB) launches the “normal cricket … Ajit Gandabhai and Rasik Gopal,…
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…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… article 0:00 / 8:26 1X BeyondWords The origin of South African Indians can be traced back to the demand for … way as others are South Africans of English,…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS , Congress of South African Students COSATU , Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW , Congress of South African…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
… free education. The protest was instigated by South African Student Congress SASCO members. October 2010, … of Technology (CPUT) students affiliated to the…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… unions represented in TUCSA were members of the South African Trades and Labour Council (SATLC), popularly known as … of the Trade Union Council that later…
ArticleAfrapix
… Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography Collective … compelling photographic record of the last…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… 2 February, F.W. De Klerk announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)…
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
… by the formation, in 1979, of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in 1985. South…
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… the unions until 1979, when the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was formed. …
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… We have included similarly influenced campaigns in South African history. Non violent mass campaigns forged a new form …
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… national heritage resources. It also established the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) and Council. The …
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
… The year 1896 signifies an important moment in African history. In that year, on 1 March 1896, a historic … colonise Ethiopia, but it also dispelled the…
The Sweet Workers’ Union
… organise the workers across racial lines, resulting in the African Sweet Workers’ Union (ASWU) coming into being. Sweet … workers were divided equally…