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ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Glossary
American Dream: The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.[1] …
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local people…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in the United States played an important part in the development of the South…
PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
The cornerstone of the building was laid on 19 December 1907 by Sir Hamilton Gould-Adams, and was officially opened on 16 October 1909. The North and South…
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Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
Passes and measures to control the mobility of the Black population particularly centring on White urban areas, were being implemented all over South Africa…
Save South Africa calls ‘People’s Assembly Against State Capture’
… Movement, CASAC, Lawyers for Human Rights, the SA NGO Coalition, the South African Christian Leaders’ Initiative …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… held on May 26. Opposition parties unite to form a coalition government on May 30. King Letsie III appoints the …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
An image showing the acculturation of indigenous Australian children by the British officials Image Source Essay Question To what extent did Australian…
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
In 1913, Black women in Bloemfontein were experiencing the culmination of heavy pass laws being implemented to control the mobility of the Black population in…
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
PART I: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906 The 1907 Presidential…
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
African National Congress (ANC) stalwart, Albertina Sisulu, a wife to former ANC Secretary, Walter Sisulu died at her Linden home, Johannesburg at the age of…
PlaceSouth Africa
Is the Southern most Country of Africa. It is bordered by Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. It is also bordered by two Seas, namely the…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… United Party (UP) by 5 seats. The HNP came to power in coalition with the Afrikaner Party, led by Nicholaas C. …
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… The Mass Democratic Movement was the name of an informal coalition of anti-apartheid groups during the 1980s. The MDM … were reorganised under the guise of a…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
Contents and Contributors Comment: A.W. Oliphant, Short stories: Mr.Shabangu by Mark Glaser; Siyayinyova by Zakhele Charles Ndaba; Tsafendas’s Diary by…
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
Marie Koopmans-De Wet followed in her father’s footsteps as she established herself in the social and cultural life of Cape Town. In 1864, she married Johan…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
NSDAP- Stands for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei and was a national Socialist German Workers’ Party.[1] Communist Party- The Communist party…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? Abstract This essay will firstly lay out government legislation…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
This article was written by Sarah Rahimi and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Zarina Maharaj Biography …
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
Sibongile ‘Promise’ Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually abused by the then…
EventThe International Labour Organisation calls for South Africa's withdrawal at the Geneva Conference
On 29 June 1961, during its plenary conference in Geneva, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) adopted a resolution condemning the racial policies of…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… a way of uniting activists and cultural workers to form a coalition of cultural resistance to Apartheid. The archive, …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… contested for power.Typically, the ruling group would be a coalition of chiefs and petit-bourgeois power-mongers. Under …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… independent black trade unions, the UDF and later the MDM coalition, is there any contradiction? We will try to answer …
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
… existence under Britain’s policy of indirect rule.) As a coalition, Obote’s UPC and the royalist Bugandans held a …
PlaceWild Coast
… open-cast Titanium Mining in the Xolobeni Dunes. A coalition of Organisations and Individuals who are concerned …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… in consociationalism . As a concept of government by coalition it is a form of political power sharing among …
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… moment when the AAM was at last succeeding in building a coalition of support for the isolation of apartheid, it was … decade ended with the formation of the…