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ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… Act was approved, Africans were relocated to impoverished homelands and townships. This Act had a vital socio-economic … Ibid. [178] Ibid. [179] Ibid. [180]…
PlaceLebowa
During the apartheid period, Lebowa was the homeland of the North Sotho people. It became a semi-independent national state in 1972. The territory was…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… exchange with the authorities in all the so-called homelands, including the nominally independent. We have at …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 97th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2009
… commercial farming areas and impoverished former homelands and other deep rural areas. Land and agrarian … by division; there are well-developed areas and…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
1850 The Nederduitsch Hervormde Church (Nederduitsch Reformed Church) establishes a congregation in Rustenburg. 16 November, A Hervormde congregation is…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
Between the 20th and 21st century, a number of people lost their lives in South Africa amid liberation struggle. However, some of these events were carried out…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… urban Black locations would force development within the homelands and attract people to them. This strategy failed …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
1919 Peter Abrahams is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in March 1919 to an Ethiopian father and a Coloured mother. His father passed away when he was young…
Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk
COSATU PRESS CONFERENCE 25 OCT. 1995 COSATU Central Executive Committee held a strategy workshop on the 23 - 24 Oct. 1995 to deal with critical issues relating…
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
The vhaVenda clans of northern South Africa, in present-day Limpopo Province, are among the nation’s most traditional, hewing to rituals and practices passed…
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
The Second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa, Uprooting poverty in South Africa: Report for the 2nd Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in…
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
King Goodwill Zwelithini became the eighth Zulu Monarch following the death of his father, King Cyprian in 1968 and brief regency that lasted until 1971 when…
EventSheikh Yusuf, regarded as the founder of the Islamic faith in the Cape, dies at Zandvliet (Macassar)
In the late 1600s many Muslim men of wealth and influence were banished to the Cape from their homeland in the East because the Dutch feared them as a threat…
PlaceSahlumbe
Sahlumbe, a Settlement along the Tugela River, about 23km from Weenen and on the edge of Msinga which was a District, established in the former Homeland of;…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
On 20 June 2016, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined…
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
Originally known as the Valley of the Huguenots, a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by the Dutch Government of the Cape, after…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
In Todd Matshikiza’s autobiography, Chocolates for My Wife (1961), which describes the exiled South African writer and musician’s first two years in London, he…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… centers in the Cape Flats and thatched-roof huts in black homelands to hear the transmission. They hunched over …
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… classification were most impacted by the establishment of homelands and the migrant labor system which kept blacks … like the Bantu Acts which deported Black…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… unwittingly became a foundation for the argument that homelands allowed Africans to continue their idyllic …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… up of people who were forced from their homes to their ‘homelands’. Indian people found their economic prosperity …
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
In a videotaped interview with David Goldblatt that is included in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African photographer ponders how it…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
From 1960 to 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
Resistance to apartheid Umzabalazo - The Freedom Struggle in South Africa Conditions in Rustenburg point to deprivation throughout the segregation and…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
Different sections of the South African community reacted to the formation of the republic in different ways. The fact that the republic had now been achieved…
PlaceCiskei
The Ciskei Bantustan in the Eastern Cape was created as an enclave for the South Africa's Xhosa-speaking people as part of apartheid racial segregation. The…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
[A joint appeal to all "suppressed" people in South Africa, whether European or Non-European, to form a United Front to fight for full democratic rights, was…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… setting aside reserves - what later became known as the “homelands” or “Bantustans”. Eventually the reserves were to … on their traditional Africans ways and…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… development through the development of Bantustans, or Homelands. Responses to the Land Act The Natives Land Act …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… General Assembly resolution condemned the establishment of homelands. In 1974 there was a resolution to expel South …