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The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… journal repeatedly made calls for the lowering of African wages. It rejoiced when striking African mine workers were violently beaten back to the shafts ……
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… July, A proposal is made at a National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) conference that wages and economic … are published on the 'minimum needs'…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… banishment of their organisations. The proscribing of the African National Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress … and objective record of the effects of…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… June 1976, Soweto Youth Riots. Picture: Bailey's African History Archives. The UDF took little notice of … a lead the riots. The UDF, and the Federation of…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… Europeans had access to the rest of Natal, except for the African reserves. More emphatically, in the old borough of … of resistance". In this manifesto they…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… the years Zarina has made quite an impact on the South African community, even in the midst of having to support her … Coloured woman and her fatherAmod…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection of short stories. [i] … shaped her motivation as one of the most…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… Early History Few Southern African indigenous groups have so captured the interest of … to the more extreme thermal variations found on the South African…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2009 to 2010
… After the African National Congress victory, Jacob Zuma was elected the …
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… some communists. It became a leading voice in the South African struggle against apartheid, especially in the 1940s. …
ArticleList of victims of police action, 21 March, 1960 (Sharpeville and Langa)
… April, 1960. Source: Peter Magubane / The Drum Archive / african.pictures Casualties in Sharpeville Bakela, Wiggi …
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… the Lynton farm in the Eastern Cape and taken to a South African Museum 1950 Several thousand San people were …
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… How is the South African Government dealing with the aids epidemic? In 1987, … to drive the national response to HIV and AIDS, the South African National…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… received formal recognition as equal citizens. South African women -under the social and even legal control of … they often earn less than men for the same…
ArticleWomens Rights
… received formal recognition as equal citizens. South African women -under the social and even legal control of … they often earn less than men for the same…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… killed and a further 78 miners were injured, when South African Police Service (SAPS) opened live ammunition gun fire … and media scrutiny, President Jacob…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… apartheid. While it is well known that many black South African men were imprisoned and tortured by the government, … the men and their children, but almost…
Links & Partnerships
… recommends (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no longer … Website - This website is a joint project…
The National Arts Festival
… The concept would grow to become a celebration of South African art and heritage and thus became known as the … largest and most important celebrations of…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… colony was, however, not a smooth or uncontested process - African people consistently resisted the dispossession of … armed commandos (comprising European…
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… your workbook. Compare the San, Khoikhoi and the early African farmers. San Khoi-Khoi African Farmers How did they live? Were they nomadic? …
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… and Development January 8th, 2001 - The Year of the African Century - for Democracy, Peace and Development … January 8th, 2000 - The Year of the Dawn of…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… "Bri" Hogg is a senior majoring in History and a minor in African and African American Ethnic Studies. She is a Dallas, Texas …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… to rapid urbanisation and the proletarianisation of the African population. By the end of the war the number of mainly African unskilled workers in the urban…
ArticleWhat makes a good or great leader?
… represents the people he leads. For example, the South African government represents all the people of the country. The South African ambassador in Germany…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… significance as the first female secretary of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) national executive … nurturer of the nation, connecting…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… Outside the reserves, economic opportunities opened up for African women too. Instead of struggling in the reserves … not yet any restrictions on the…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… Frontline as publications that were part of the South African liberation movement but independent of any political … South Africa and also reprinted news…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… 1986]. *Slovo, J., The Theories of Regis Debray, an African Communist pamphlet (London:SACP, n.d. [circa … 1990, unpublished. *Tambo, O.R., `Statement by the…
ABBREVIATIONS USED
… Corporation PE - Port Elizabeth SACOD/COD - South African Congress of Democrats SACOL - Congress South African Confederation of Labour SACPO/SACPC/CPC -…