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ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution' … of The Soul of a Nation - Constitution…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… am a ghanaian but i like south african history. long live africa, long live south africa. From: Therese Benade Sent: … few irregularities with some of the…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 elections. As …
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…
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…
Post-detention weapons
… My Home, My Jail (1989) Political Imprisonment in South Africa (May 1990) Death Penalty in South Africa (October … or detain/charge/convict/imprison and even…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… the planters began to doubt whether they were going after all to be the recipients of a boon, to which they have, for … has in some measure prepared us for…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… us contextualise the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa in the 1970s. Also, it is impossible to understand … Civil rights are the protections and…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… almost immediately, there was a government crackdown of all black opposition. In a single stroke the national … Mission and the ANCWL. Those who remained in…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… what was regarded as the most formidable defence force in Africa. But in the end white-ruled South Africa needed a … rejected the proposal, insisting on…
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…
ArticleSouth African Association of Art Historians (founded 1984)
… aim is to advance art and architectural history in South Africa, and to promote and uphold the status of the … African community as a whole. The Association…
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… a transitional executive council (TEC) representing all parties at Codesa. 14 April 1992: In Working Group 2, the … On the same day Working Group 3 reaches…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th … a significant bearing on the NP government's designs for all urban areas across…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… aim in view-to take positive steps to crush, once and for all, White colonialism and imperialism in our Fatherland." … proclaiming that "winds of change"…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… of apartheid through the history of photography in South Africa, the South African government's censorship laws, and … since the Native Land Act of 1913 that…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… situation from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and mid-70s, the … from the outside, the system did not…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… socio-economic transformation, peace and stability for all our people. The basic principle underpinning this new … over the regime, both internally and…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… then he would launch into a critique on: where and how it all became so stuffed up. A complete biography of Mafika … African Students Organization, or BPC,…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… enormous damage was caused by a severe hailstorm in 1905. All these factors led it a serious economic depression. … under Charles Smythe, imposed a Poll Tax…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… police and youths were engaged in running street battles all over the dusty township. During the next few weeks' … the lead in a countrywide rebellion that…
BiographyHamilton Naki
… gradually embellished in post-apartheid, Black-ruled South Africa. Various credible publications began publishing Mr. …
BiographyKate O’Regan
… served as an honorary professor at the University of South Africa and is currently an honorary professor at the …
BiographyThandi Modise
… be commanded by young women. In 1978 she returned to South Africa to work underground as an MK operative. She was … to 2019 and as Speaker of the National…
BiographyDonald James Woods
… Woods remained in Britain but made regular visits to South Africa. In 1997 he attended the ceremony of the unveiling of …
BiographyJessie Yasmin Duarte
… Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu until 1994. During South Africa’s negotiations for democracy, from 1991-1994, Duarte …
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… Ngoyi known as "Mother of the Black resistance" in South Africa. Image source She was first issued her banning orders … Every Step of the Way: The Journey to…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… the seizure of White-owned farms. 5 December, South Africa holds local government elections. To read the ANC’s … to provide access to treatment to those who…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… named St Marks) region, Transkei (now Eastern Cape), South Africa, to Gilbert and Mary. He is the fifth of six children. … becomes a member of the Unity…
PlaceBritish Bechuanaland
… annexed Griqualand West to the Cape. In 1881 the Pretoria Convention between the British and the Transvaal sought to … straddled the British route to the…