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BiographyDali Tambo
… he had not addressed pressing political issues such as the land grabs, human rights violations and political rights …
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
… in and given her new clothes) and her own people (whose land was being taken over by the Dutch in the late 1650s). …
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
… Parliament It is significant to note that ownership of the land received by the Kat River settlers was later taken away … described as ‘white exploitation,…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the enforcement of an Apartheid State, it took time for the world to take notice and action…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
… family moved to the Transvaal where his father had bought land. It was here that he completed his primary schooling at …
EventVan Riebeeck lands at the Cape
… dated from December 165, have been carefully archived. Land was sighted on 5 April 1652 and the ships docked the …
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… the JBM Hertzog’s draft bills – the Natives Trust and Land Bill, which sought to limit Black ownership of land outside the reserves; and the Representation…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
Popular violence in the decade between 1984 and 1993 is well documented. Existing literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
The participation of young people in the liberation struggle preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the establishment of the African National…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… of the General Assembly of the United Nations. The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act ("Ghetto Act") had …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… this period. What was the impact of the 1913 Natives Land Act? Three years after the formation of the Union of … passed by the whites-only Parliament ”” the…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know … tonight, that we, as a people, will…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… to happen bywoner - a tenant farmer who laboured for the land owner in return for the right to cultivate a piece of land Christian nationalism - an ideology…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… to cramped locations and prevented them from acquiring land. Individual merchants and hawkers petitioned and … limit their numbers and prevent them from…
Sir Abe Bailey (75), SA politician and Rand mine magnate, dies in Muizenberg.
EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
Headman Tshabalala was born in 1945 in Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal. In 1960, he joined the first incarnation of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo and sang…
BiographyHendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn
… and after the war farmed for some time on his father’s land in the Ermelo district. In 1905 he was employed by a …
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
BackgroundWhat is today referred to as the “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival celebrated in honour of the Greek god Zeus in the town of Olympia. As…
ArchiveChurch and State relations: the story of Bophuthatswana and its independence from 1977 to 1994
… as well. This was not separated from the issue of land which is also seen as a gift from God for them. … from obtaining citizenship and denying them access…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… Transformation European Colonial Expansion and the "Empty Land" Myth Historiographical Debates: Whose History? Legacy … particular interpretations of this…
BiographyShaka Zulu
… built up his forces, which soon became the terror of the land. Shaka prohibited the wearing of sandals, toughened his … the white traders most favoured…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as foreign nationals, were hosted by the Botswana…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… at: sahistory.org.za [accessed on 26 February 2009]| The land and its people [online]. Available at: info.gov.za …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
Introduction Full feature on the History of Women’s struggle in South Africa will give a broader view of the role played by women in the struggle for freedom…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
..to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. Winning a Nobel Prize is one of the highest international…
Formation and launch of the UDF
UDF launch at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. Source: http://www.nelsonmandela.org In the late 1970s moves to form united front against apartheid were set in…
ArticleArts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)
The Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN) was founded in 1991 as an initiative to influence government policy at national and provincial levels. It was…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
In August 1906, the British administration in the Transvaal passed the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance (Black Act) to control the entry of Indians into the…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
This list is listed in chronological order, listing mayors of Durban, starting from 1854 to date. George Cato (1854 - 56) Edward Snell and Savery Pinsent…