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EventThe fifteenth annual conference of Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) alters its constitution
… by no longer accepting any unregistered unions as TUCSA affiliates. Though Black trade unions could organise legally, …
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… been adjudged too young for acceptance as a university student. In 1910 he enrolled at the Grey University College …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… what becomes known as the Soweto youth uprising . The student uprising spreads to other parts of the country … students, whilst the Congress of South African…
ArchiveIn Verwoerd's South Africa: a tale of per
… South African Press towards the the Unity Movement and its affiliates. In the article there are further claims that …
EventNUSAS disbands
… relationship with the Congress of South African Students (COSAS). The reasoning behind the dissolution of the …
BiographyFanele Mbali
Fanele Mbali was born on 1 December 1937 in a village called Eqolweni. Mbali’s father, Charlton Babana Mkhonto and his brother William Ntozakhe decided on the…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… Van der Heyden read voraciously and was a good student. But her mother insisted that she aim at marriage, … But the NEUM’s factional fighting carried over…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… that was representative of Africa and Africans. Most student leaders raised the concern that the current … as the late 1960s, university students, who were…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… university students and workers. These included the Soweto Student Representative Council (SSRC), the South African Student Movement (SASM) and the Black…
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
… of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) was formed, with 9 affiliates. CUSA originated from the Urban Training Project …
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
Background Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional Court in 2011 to compel former president Jacob Zuma to establish a commission of inquiry into…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… the BPC, which was founded by leaders of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). Rachidi joined the BPC in 1972, …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… in 1878. [142] He distinguished himself as an intelligent student and by the age of 16, when he started working at the …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… campaign. In the early part of 1963 Robert Watson, a student at UCT who had served in Malaysia and Cyprus during …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
Note: All definitions are acquired through Google’s online English Dictionary. Nationalism: Nationalism is the feeling of belonging to a nation. Nationalism…
INK: Making Access Visible, ASAI Print Workshops
ASAI’s print workshops are designated as ‘access’ because they are about supporting practicing artists - especially those working independently without the…
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… of the Congress of South African Students Association (COSAS). Attempts to re-open schools in Western Cape were …
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… (SASO). The UCM was from its inception a Christian student movement far more radical than any other student organisation in the country. With the National…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black student life in the country. The association’s membership was … 1960. In 1962, a Pan Africanist…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… at the time, because the university had written to the student newspaper Varsity on 15 June 1966 complaining about … in the demonstration was Kenneth Hughes…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… Alphonce Baraza I'm an international student from Kenya. I'm a computer science major and I like … am Caroline Gathogo, from Nairobi Kenya. Currently I am a…
ArticleAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI)
Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI) is a non-profit company specialising in research and publication on the visual arts in Africa. ASAI began in 2005, concerned…
ArticleSouth African Association of Art Historians (founded 1984)
… Institutional members do not have voting rights. STUDENT MEMBERS: Any student or scholar supporting the aims of the Association may apply for membership…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… Consciousness" organisation. He writes that: During 1981 COSAS and AZASO changed their position on negotiation with … broad consultation and intensive…
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
… a health hazard by the City Council. Cosatu and its affiliates were forced to vacate their offices. In 1998 the …
Malcolm Phafane
… is only 30 minutes away from Sharpeville. As a photography student, my immediate subject of choice became my community. … African prestigious Fujifilm silver…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… the Afrikaanse Nasionale Studentebond (National Afrikaans Student Association). At the age of twenty he delivered an …
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… to its executive council in 1974. He organised and led the student movement and civic structures during the 1970s and …