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BiographyMohammed Tikly
Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in Pietersburg, (now…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… 1970s, the Apartheid government of South Africa granted Homelands/Bantustans independence, and allowed elections in … South African government. The elections…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… acting as a continental early warning mechanism for crisis response. The PSC is therefore responsible for determining … AU in partnership with international…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… shifts and conflict seem to have been at least partly a response to climatic flux during the Little Ice Age. For … Africa's urban work force throughout the…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… tended to take two possible routes. The first was the response: “How on earth could you do it?” The second was more … not to judge others.” Leftwich seems to…
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… Prime Minister John Vorster reneged on the U.N. plan. In response, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance led an …
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… South Africa into a number of separate states, called homelands, for Blacks. Under the homeland system , each state … arable land was reserved and divided…
BiographyJoseph Fansio Mati
Joseph Faniso Mati was born on a farm near Adelaide, Eastern Cape and grew up in Port Elizabeth. During high school, teachers encouraged students to attend…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… banned under the Suppression of Communism Act. In response to the new apartheid legislation and the bannings, … the ANC National Executive on 17 June 1951 to…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… Contents Nelspruit the Segregated city Homelands as Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until … of tribal society. The Apartheid period Pass laws The…
BiographyAli Bacher
… to meet Steve Tshwete. "Who's he?" was Bacher's immediate response. Two days later, though, Bacher was in Mdantsane …
BiographyAlex la Guma
… 124), isolating that which ultimately provokes a violent response to the system. In A Walk in the Night the main …
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… people would all become citizens of independent black homelands. The government said that black people should … declared their 'homeland' by the white…
BiographyNomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize was born on 12 April 1940 in Sophiatown, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). Her family’s forced removal from Sophiatown to Meadowlands…
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
Wolfie Kodesh was born in Benoni on 18 October 1918. His paternal grandparents arrived in South Africa after fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe. His mother,…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
… not want a principal who was so openly against racism. In response to this Dudley stated: The government in this …
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… agricultural sphere were not unreservedly accepted in the homelands. Opposition came from two sides. On the one hand, … authorities and the agricultural…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… was devastating for most of those who were uprooted. As a response, non-white South Africans aligned towards a common … sits with the United States and the…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… to the reserves that were then re-constituted as ethnic 'homelands' by the apartheid regime. The process of … from Whites in the countryside. The creation of…
BiographySally Gross
… order. In the same year, the Soweto Riots took place. In response, Gross wrote a draft programme which included an …
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyStephanie Kemp
… not agree with the party's insistence on a non - violent response to increasing state repression. As the government …
BiographyTheresa Solomon
Theresa Solomon was born in District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape, in 1945. Solomon lived in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, where she worked as a community…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… to impose sanctions against Nigeria produced a negative response throughout the Continent, leaving South Africa … the invasion of Iraq against the express…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… It could no longer keep black people in their Bantu homelands or remove them from the white cities. The Bantu … administered by the South African government)…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… power. The African (Bantu) groups were separated into homelands, or Bantustans , consigned there to become separate … 13% of the South Africa’s land was set…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… this Act by setting up Black ethnic governments known as ?Homelands?. The government used this Act to push Black people out of urban areas to stay in these…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… a lenient punishment, this first experience of the state’s response to dissent would make real his father’s refrain that …
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… with D. D. T. Jabavu to formulate a co-ordinated black response to segregation. Although he was unable to turn this …
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… at the meetings of the General Assembly of the UN and at the Headquarters of the Organisation. 1957 30 … 1958 South Africa resumed full participation in the…