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ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Bergh though the Public Service Amendment Act (1969). The main aim of BOSS was to monitor national security, as well as … for coordinating internal and…
Grade 10 Archive
… Central and South America. The impact of colonialism : The main reason why Europeans began to search for a sea route to …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… during the Soweto Uprising and the township revolts of the 1980s. The SADF Reserve Contact records of all former members …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… provided for the racial segregation of the country's four main groups, so-called European, African, Indian and Coloured. One of Apartheid's main concerns was…
ArticleThe missionaries
… the Xhosas and Zulus. The missionaries became Faku’s main channel of communication with the Cape Colony, and later … introduced the system of Tribal…
ArticleTransport on water
… of boat from ancient times. This boat had three hulls (main bodies) and were built by Polynesians about 4 000 years … to their boats. For many centuries,…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… perception had changed, as throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Free Mandela campaigns were run in a variety of … free man in, was on the brink of widespread…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… trade Freedom from enforced labour The Congress became the main political organ of the Black people throughout the …
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… and asylum seekers in South Africa dates back to the 1980s when the country was home to a number of Mozambican … not belonging to the dominant ethnic groups…
EventThe State of Emergency is declared in thirty six magisterial districts.
… popular resistance and violent township protests amid the 1980s forced the South African government to declare a State …
EventDr Stanley Mogoba is born in Polokwane
… on this day. He was detained on Robben Island during the 1980s and was appointed as the presiding Bishop of the …
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi Naidoo
… allies dominated South Africa's political landscape in the 1980s. This study deals with political resistance amongst … of a myriad of progressive Indian…
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… the Kwa-Zulu Government. It was only early in the 1980s that relations between the two were mended. This … them dead. As tensions escalated in the second…
EventNegotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi
… camps had been engaged in violence since the early 1980s. …
ArticleReferencing Resources for Historical Research
… Blog 1 S. Mhlongo, 'Youth, Culture and Resistance in the 1980s', SAHO Blog [web blog], 10 June 2023, https://www.sahistory.org.za/blog/youth-culture-1980s , …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… as early as the 1930s Afrikaans women were regarded as the main bearers of their culture. They were also the … fact that an ANC member, a Mrs Bhola, was also…
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
… taken in reaching it, the judge who disagrees with the main writer will prepare to write a concurrence or dissent. … It is a litigant's responsibility to…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… questionnaire, the Umbrella was restructured to include a Main Programme consisting of established and International … programme was no longer included. This…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… plan put in place for the invasion of Zululand. The main objective was to occupy the Zulu royal kraal at Ulundi … Zulu tactic of attacking from three sides…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the increasing activities of the UDF posed a … of the IFP was gradually eroded. As a…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
… During the late 1970 and early 1980s the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations had tried … uranium, magnesium, and other strategic metals. By the mid 1980s…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… the general consensus that credit for the discovery of the main gold reef must be attributed to George Harrison, whose … workings were being opened up along…
PlaceBenin
… Benin just as the later democratic transition would. The main political contenders were temporarily united under the … parties and shifting alliances, all…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… set the stage for other women’s organisations in the 1980s. Keywords Federation of South African Women, Ray … in the 1960s and was unable to re-launch…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… educational as well as political issues. Throughout the 1980s, under the banner of COSAS students have staged a … National Congress refugees in Zimbabwe and…
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… intensifying its struggle against South Africa during the 1980s, a period during which many cadres in the military …
Event30 000 Blacks fight for Britain in Anglo-Boer War
… gradually started to influence their approach. Since the 1980s, the perception that the war was a 'White man's war' … 14 March 2014]|Cloete, P.G. (2000). The…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… of KwaZulu-Natal, the hosts of this event, in the late 1980s. His 1982 poetry collection, No More Lullabies, was the … the BC movement. He said a lot of…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… read on Down with Afrikaans Countdown to conflict: The main cause of the protests that started in African schools in …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 4: Co-operation and conflict on the frontiers of the Cape Colony in the early 19th century
… on a boundary, such as a river or a mountain range. The main difference between a border and a frontier is that a …