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… we formed the slogan "an injury to one is an injury to all" So we were supposed to be there. - Solomon Marikele … Buildings (WRAB) buildings, cars of…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… Sharpeville shortly after the shootings © Museum Africa. The 1960s marked an important watershed in South … a group of disenchanted ANC members, seeking to…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… This article deals with values and education in South Africa, and more specifically the proposed 'pledge'. Please … send us your comments on this debate. We…
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…
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 …
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… Prehistory of Southern Africa Two places are of particular heritage interest in the … belief that the dark smoke would call the rain clouds to all corners of…
PlaceBaviaanskloof Region and Pass, Eastern Cape
… out. With 42 River Crossings, assisted only by causeways, all of which are liable to flood during heavy rainfall, your …
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… strong opposition from the White establishment in South Africa. It was feared that if Africans would be exposed to … be surrounded by an unclimbable fence or…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
BiographyMartin Nambala Wilpard
… Chief of the Ondonga community in Ovamboland, South West Africa [now Namibia]. It was claimed that he was guilty of … Neuhoff Native Reserve, Maltahohe,…
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…
BiographyJudge Erns Jansen
… government and Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. While he was born into the Afrikaner aristocracy, he … the "independent" homeland of…
BiographyAlbert Dlomo
… on the Island Dlomo enrolled with the University of South Africa (UNISA). He was also one of the leaders of protest … facilitating the movement of ANC…
BiographyFred Khumalo
… His journalistic work has been published in South Africa, Canada, and the United Kingdom (UK). He has achieved … title debut. Khumalo’s books tend to focus…
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… condemning the Pass laws, endorsing a call for a National Convention, and protesting against the 1962 Sabotage Act. … Education Trust, The Road to Democracy…