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Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… Mandla Langa was born in apartheid South Africa in 1950. His family, friends, and his own life were … by this program that killed, endangered, and punished…
BiographyDr Morris Zwi
… what was happening around him as he grew up in South Africa, under the abhorrent Apartheid political system. Zwi … magazine, featuring Afrapix’s first…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… including those situated in the heart of urban white South Africa. In response, the Apartheid government intensified its … sports and women’s organisations…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… including those situated in the heart of urban white South Africa. In response, the Apartheid government intensified its … sports and women's organisations…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… the backbone for human rights, amongst blacks, in South Africa. Ruth Robb went by her middle name, Noel, and died at … make a change in the country of South…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… society, the basis for a new nation and a new South Africa was produced, which is why this Constitution is … of the interests involved. The point is that…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… African National Congress (ANC) by performing at events in Africa and Europe. Johnny Dyani is best known for his … a musical family and had a piano in their…
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
… of Zeekoevlei , in the early 1900s. In those days this was all rural farm land but by 1920 there were already 2000 … classes, Urdu and has several talks on…
BiographyLesetja Kganyago
… Wits University. He then enrolled at University of South Africa (UNISA) to continue with his commerce degree. In 1991, … buy-backs, switches and strip…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… Indians, residentially and commercially, in South Africa. July 1925 Dr Daniel François Malan , Minister of … DCC’s Special Committee on Housing convened a…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… 1 September 1977, the apartheid government announced that all Soweto secondary and high schools were to become state … on 12 September, Steve Biko was…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… the pattern and direction of trade unionism in South Africa. It introduced the race factor into labour economics … workers into support of an industrial…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… cause of the end of apartheid. Under apartheid, South Africa was a fascist state with a capitalist economy. The … (This link gives a decade by decade…
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… judgements. "Mature judgement is a quality we expect of all our professionals, and demand in all our dealings with bureaucrats, politicians, managers, … of…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… terrible and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways shaped … squeezed out. Prospectors streamed to…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… A Salute by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers Published by the South African … Today, our black working class, the…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… there are no written records? How, for example, do we know all this fascinating information about the origin of people? … well as stone or metal objects…
BiographySandile Dikeni
… Die Suid-Afrikaan and political editor of This Day South Africa. He also served a stint in government, as spokesperson for South Africa’s then Housing…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… systematic land dispossession and segregating South Africa. The Khoikhoi, San and Black Africans under the … Grey Act was passed and it provided for the…
Afrikaner
… from Western Europeans who settled on the southern tip of Africa during the middle of the 17th century. Portuguese … policy, and that races should remain…
III - Black Consciousness
… book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa What had Steve Biko done to be so persecuted by the … waged a relentless war against African…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… black professional musicianship. Black musicians in South Africa were able to hear the music of Duke Ellington, Count … by American music and American movies…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… with the struggle against the inequality, and directed all of her own campaigns in exposing the apartheid government … apartheid government. Ruth First…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… Union that was set up by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1929 At the second SA federation of Trade … during the Second World War. He is later…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… Euro-American intellectual framework that shaped South Africa’s 1996 constitution. In portraying rural South Africa … Version, Gen. 9. 1) while stressing…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… human rights. In the 1990s it was discovered that all people have a “mutual ancestor” which originated in Africa because the earliest human remains (about…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… then bloodshed and violence are going to happen in South Africa almost inevitably. A people can take only so much and … which will demonstrate that you and…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… then bloodshed and violence are going to happen in South Africa almost inevitably. A people can take only so much and … which will demonstrate that you and…
41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee, 1906
… to interpret the term 'Natives' occurring in the London Convention, to include Asiatics. This contention Her … late Majesty's Government, sought to be…
BiographyJulia Nicol
… integral role in LGBTQI+ politics in pre-democratic South Africa. She, along with fellow comrades Simon Nkoli , Ivan … constitutional rights of the LGBTQI+…