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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 …
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…
ArticleTswana
… form of voluntary work is known as letsema . The South African government has presently adopted the word letsema … were the ancestors, Badimo . Most…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… challenged the beliefs, policies, or actions of the South African government. Such a general definition functions … support apartheid. Television networks…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…