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ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… self-governing state, and that this will follow for other homelands. The Republican Intelligence (RI) is established as …
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to dislodge numerous Black communities on the Transvaal Highveld occupying land in what was…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
Glossary of Ndebele building terms APOKORWAN - Eaves overhang AMAKAPA - Roof AMAKAPA IBALELO - Timber roof rafter AMAOBA - Enclosed room located in the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer It's two and a half years since Maria said those words. Things stayed tense but quiet in Cape Town…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… bodies, and indeed, new ‘countries’, the tribal homelands. The students that launched the South Africa … against apartheid institutions, particularly the…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… be abandoned'. Meanwhile, De Klerk met with leaders of the homelands, including Rev. Allan Hendrickse, Dr J. N. Reddy, …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… we on this side of the House stand for the policy that the homelands should be guided towards maturity so that they may … believes in the right of self…
PlaceNorth West
The North West Province was part of the old Transvaal, and includes most of the parts of the old homeland, Bophuthatswana. There is a lot of platinum in the…
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
St Wendolins was situated about 14 km from Central Pinetown, on land owned by the Roman Catholic diocese of Mariannhill and individual African Plot Holders…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
The industrial Revolution has shaped the societies we live in today and more so in Britain and in Southern Africa. It brought about not only changes in…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… later depicted in the apartheid ideology as national homelands. These reserves in total made up 13 per cent of the … Politically linking even urban blacks to…
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… back their claim. When once that happens, the leaders of homelands and independent (bantustans) will be in an …
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… race or sex. Its Balkanisation into Bantusatans, so-called homelands and group areas has to end. Given our bitter …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… into ethnic groups and that therefore the different homelands or Bantustans of the apartheid era had historical …
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The All-African Convention came into being as an answer…
PlaceZululand District Municipality
Known as: 'The Kingdom of the Zulu'. KwaZulu-Natal is a: "melting pot of African, European and Indian cultures". Known as the Kingdom of the Zulu! This…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
The Origins and formation: The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was formed in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… had said the policy of separate development, namely the homelands policy, was lying in pieces at my feet? And now … that is, 24. In other words, they accept…
82. The President’s Council
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The President's Council was appointed in…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… Lennox Sebe, Chief Minister of the Ciskei, one of the homelands, maintained that 'an inbred white mentality of … the form of elected councils in the urban…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… KwaNdebele and others. The plan was to work within the homelands and change them. An important achievement during …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
… KwaNdebele and others. The plan was to work within the homelands and change them. An important achievement during …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu All true Christians in South Africa will have just cause for gratitude over the…
PlaceMpumalanga
Mpumalanga means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes part of the old Transvaal and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… Albert Luthuli unequivocally rejects the Government's homelands policy. 7 February, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go … will be given long-standing contracts…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… Africans out of their land into designated Bantustans, or homelands, such as KwaZulu for the Zulu nation, or QwaQwa for …
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack…
Burkina Faso: Echoes of a Revolution Past by Ernest Harsch, December 22nd, 2014
Burkina Faso: Echoes of Revolution Past Ernest Harsch discusses the enduring appeal and influence of the revered revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara. There is…