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ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… Conference as “embracing the present and future status of all aboriginal natives of South Africa, and the relation in which they stand towards the … in the…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… of the ANC. It called upon our people to resign from all apartheid institutions, like the Natives Representative … Moroka, who was the Treasurer General of…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… (SALP) as a reaction to the party’s support for South Africa’s participation in the First World War . On 22 … member of the organisation. Many socialists in…
PlaceCenturion, Gauteng
… its Mall - one of the largest shopping centres in South Africa with over 200 stores and restaurants! Centurion is … from- Midrand in the South to Valhalla in…
BiographyS. Mac Lepolesa
… Claims committee. In the late 1950s he left South Africa and settled in Basutoland (now Lesotho ), where he … A documentary History of African Politics in…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… a political force unprecedented in the history of South Africa. Biko and his peers were responding to developments … ‘Steve was expelled for absolutely no…
BiographyRonald Vernie Dellums
… he started a campaign to end the apartheid in South Africa. The next year, he introduced the Comprehensive Anti- … Apartheid Act which called for sanctions…
BiographyRonald Vernie Dellums
… he started a campaign to end the apartheid in South Africa. The next year, he introduced the Comprehensive Anti- … Apartheid Act which called for sanctions…
BiographyKabelo Sello Duiker
… Cents won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for first book, Africa Region. Thirteen Cents explores issues of race, … race and identity in a racially diverse…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
… born in Lydenburg, eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 18 May 1957. He joined the South African Student … as a high school student in 1974…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Vasco da Gama sailed up the eastern seaboard of southern Africa, and moored overnight in the lee of a headland, which … is believed to have caught alight and…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
… the national consciousness. A person who was born in South Africa, for instance, has both a national South African … heritage too, because they were born on…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… of official structures for the visual arts in South Africa displaced many of the earlier roles and functions of … Furthermore, its creation of a new group of…
BiographySidumo Dlamini
… in Swaziland on 2 March 1966. He moved to South Africa with his aunt at a young age. Sdumo Dlamini started … • Sidumo Dlamini. Who’s who Southern Africa…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… a number of oppressive laws against Black people in South Africa. The 1950s decade was one of the periods of heightened … Campaign was the first campaign…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… son, Manilal. 1893 April, M.K. Gandhi leaves for South Africa to work on a lawsuit, invited by Seth Dada Abdullah. … meet outside a mosque in Pretoria. At…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… of the conference. A Cape Town paper had stated that to all intents and purposes the Coloured people were looked upon … and thus they would confer a lasting…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… birth to the Black Consciousness (BC) movement in South Africa. It was the key actor within the BC movement, … and, blacks doing ‘things for themselves and…
BiographyLloyd Spencer
… Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed … André Kertész (1894-1985). In 1981 and ’82 South Africa, Lloyd…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… of the republic - with coloureds, Indians and blacks all being left out of the voting process. The period after … period his main priority was white security…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… the beginning of the rise of apartheid. Although South Africa was already a very segregated country, apartheid laws … the codification in one oppressive…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… with the oppression of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. By identifying … black community as a “disabled” or oppressed…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… the founder, as an African messiah. He introduced the all-male Mokhukhu organization which wore military style … [i] Zion Christian Church , Rita M. Byrnes,…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… permitted the exploitation of the Coloured races of South Africa. I said that " the Orange River Colony and the … you are determined to maintain the struggle…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is … their freedom struggle. This is what…
ArticleThe San
… The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were … in South Africa. There is no comprehensive list of all…
BiographyNgugi wa Thiong’o
… and political legacy of colonialism in contemporary Africa. He is often invited to deliver public lectures to top …
Mahomed “Chota” Motala
… in 1947 and doing his internship, he returned to South Africa to set up a medical practice in Pietermaritzburg. He …
BiographyLawrence Folley
… A Dinner Engagement. In 1967 Lawrence returned to South Africa with his wife and three daughters, where he became one …
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
… in 1990. In May of the same year he retuned to South Africa and took up the position of chairperson of the …