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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 …
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… and politics of exclusion in the early 20th century South Africa, and elsewhere in the African context and also in the … nationalism served as an ideological…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… Assembly, 24 January 1995. The people of South Africa must be involved. They must be consulted in an … and the negotiaÂtion at the World Trade centre is…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… with general ideas of freedom and demands such as a South Africa based on the Freedom Charter, in which 'the people … and as socially committed and critical…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… nationalism and racial pride, the speaker first dealt with Africa as a continent. He mentioned that it was the mother … coloured races, he went on to say,…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… time.” [i] Due to the racial oppression he saw in South Africa, Nortje fled the country in 1961 to the U.K. and to … He failed to establish any meaningful…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 104th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… aspirations of the vast majority of the people of South Africa. Let us also acknowledge the tremendous honour and … South African nation. Twenty-five years…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … main line of defence: they would have gone into the All-African Convention and…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… greatest national political strike ever witnessed in South Africa." [65] In Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and … instead of proclaiming a Republic, to…
The Arrival of the Khoisan
… to change significantly in the Western part of Southern Africa. Herders, also known as the Khoikhoi, arrived, … the Cochoquas. The Cochoquas had begun to…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… What Soweto meant in public relations terms was that South Africa’s image had slipped from the control of the white … white privilege and African squalor…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different … government before Union was established…
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… stand for a broad and true South Africanism extending to all in our country, irrespective of race or colour, can never … and silenced. Where can this road…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from … censorship of films, literature, and sexual…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
… by D.D.T Jabavu The beginning of the year 1926 sees South Africa standing at the cross-roads of race relationships. The … They sneak different languages and…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. 1961 Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in the … will white people hear what we are trying…
BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
… entry into that country. In 1928, Ray arrived in South Africa, with little formal education and no English, although … socialist organisation, and the …
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
… October 1918. His paternal grandparents arrived in South Africa after fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe. His … sister found work as typist for Communist…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… struggle against racial oppression and exclusion in South Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle of … while African workers were allowed to…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… historical moment in which resistance photography in South Africa came into existence. The basis for what is commonly … the foreign influence on resistance…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… There was no question of taking money for his work, it was all for a `cause'. However there is no doubt that the main … Johannesburg, write articles, give…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… arrest. Source: http://heritage.thetimes.co.za/ © Museum Africa At one of his services early in 1919, Mgijima … according to his followers, could be heard by…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… create, communicate, receive and process complex ideas of all kinds. In her spare time, she listens to NPR obsessively … and minoring in History with focus…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… they spread the virus to many countries, including South Africa, where it made its appearance in September 1918. By … war, drought, hunger, and plague;…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… acts of violence committed in the Republic of South Africa (including self-governing territories). If such … that the report included a plan to grant amnesty…