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ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… alongside Orlando Township. Between 1950 and 1953 the Apartheid Government attempted to force the JMC to implement … and relocate residents in Meadowlands…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… at night and shout threats and abuse. I frequently had to work late at the office, to prepare the union's case for the … martyr, who was being victimised by…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… controversy. In the 1960s, as international criticism of apartheid grew, the Springboks became increasingly isolated … arena as they were seen as…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… unions revolted. Then with the emergence of the Apartheid regime they eventually left and by 1954 formed the … “sweetheart union” that closely aligned itself…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… to play an important role in reviving black opposition to apartheid. However, it was surprising that the challenge came … provided Sobukwe with the space and…
ArticleZulu
… J.L Dube was the first Zulu writer (1832) though his first publication was a Zulu story written in English … in editing the newspaper "Ilanga LaseNatali" …
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… often travelled in Africa; Hani had to spend much of his time in ANC camps in Angola; and Slovo was based in … to Kasrils, the Soviet doctrine of `military…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… no hard facts. No former member of the groups wrote about his experiences, and there was a silence that was so … with, Trotskyist groups and received later…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… on the mines. Pedi chiefs continue to send young men to work in the mines as migrants as the Witwatersrand overtakes … Alfred Milner is appointed governor…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu was executed by the Apartheid regime for being part of an abortive attempt by … South Africa, determined to assist in the…
PlaceVanderbijlpark
… and Sasolburg . The town was named after a young American scientist, by the name of Dr HJ van der Bijl , who …
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… of the ANC’s newspaper, Abantu Batho , but spent much of his life being hounded out of positions by the colonial … Robert Grendon’s Paul Kruger’s Dream , is…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… Two years after taking office, Verwoerd realised his republican dream, when a White-only referendum supported his plea for a republic. This was also the…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… degree at the University of Havanna, where he also began his political career. In 1953, he led a failed attack on Moncada Barracks in Cuba. This resulted in…
Displacing Hierarchies: Nation and Universities in India and Africa by Amrita Pande, Faisal Garba and Ruchi Chaturvedi
… of its higher education landscape and society mark our work and thought. In this article, we approach that story … nations invested in. For example soon…
PlaceMuizenberg and Marina da Gama
… years! Its significance is that he died in the Cottage at his height of his career and resurgence of his political power. In 1910, … Town in 1919, she…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… Dingane planned an ambush and murdered Retief and his party of 100 people. This act culminated in the Battle of … , which was launched to wage an armed…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 4: Medicine through time
… become sick because they are having problems at home or work. This is the reason why sangomas look at the environment that people live and work in to find…
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… the task of creating a better life for all South Africans. Apartheid had left a devastating legacy of vast inequalities … restructured and municipal…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book The Unity of India (London, 1941). Nelson Mandela … in the Indian national movement. In…
The CASA Conference
… The Anti-Apartheid Beweging Nederland (AABN), which was part of the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement, organised the Culture in Another South … their activities…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… an excellent education by the standards for Xhosa boys of his time, but his conscience was prickled early by the imperial attitudes … became a prefect. With…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… Many Afrikaners must feel indebted to General Hertzog for his two-stream policy which started a schism in the white … This spirit is inherent in the theory…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… (private property) for Belgium’s King Leopold II and under his rule, over half of the region’s population died. At the … African continent. Trade would be…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… South Africa,’ ANC president Oliver Tambo told members of his organisation two months after the Nkomati Accord, ‘have … mission’s capacity to reinforce, let…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… KwaZulu-Natal, the hosts of this event, in the late 1980s. His 1982 poetry collection, No More Lullabies, was the book I … was teaching me so much about the…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… was appointed Deputy-Landdrost at Graaff-Reinet. His brief was explicit and quite detailed: he was to establish his residency at the outpost, and he was to…
A volatile case of Afrikan vs. Indian in KwaZulu-Natal by Jackie Shandu, 7 April 2015, South Africa
… Steve Biko included in his definition of Blackness Afrikans, Indians and Coloureds. … for some among us to bombard with a history lesson of Apartheid's…
EventAn intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique
… Maputo, Mozambique, involving 133 Angolan soldiers, anti-apartheid activists, Klaas de Jonge, a Dutch anthropologist, … Major du Toit was captured at Cabinda…
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… organisation Atlas or Okhela, a resistance group fighting apartheid in exile and was intended to be the White wing of … Congress (ANC). He remained a…