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ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… was broadly defined in the law, thus allowing for abuse by the government to crack down on anti-apartheid movement … which banned people from moving around…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… with the aims of the BCM, and using funds raised by Rev. Beyers Naude from European churches, BCP was launched … at 86 Bearice Street in Durban in the same…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… universities and teacher training colleges, and by the second congress in Stutterheim in July 1968, 60 … the white-dominated organisation should ideally be…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… Intensify the Armed Struggle!" The Conference was attended by over seventy delegates from various centres representing … movement. The Conference was opened…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… of [Afrikaner] self-government'. The repeated pleas by African leaders to the British not to compromise the few … the protection of the Imperial government…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the white population of the country. A manifesto outlined … would be implemented in practice which…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… or Vacant Land Theory is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to … had mostly been an ‘empty land’. The…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… Most incidents of violent attacks have been carried out by black South Africans. Overview The history of refugees and … is generally defined as ‘the deep…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… Mozambican were thrown from a moving train in Johannesburg by a group of individuals returning from a rally organised by a group blaming foreigners for the…
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
… the most powerful group. This was because they were backed by Britain who could provide them with a well-organised and … the Basotho kingdom in 1868. The…
The Afrikaner Bond
… was launched as a reaction to the alienation of Afrikaners by the English rulers, and first emerged as a force to … origin, and tended towards a liberal…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… of diverse collaborations and performances once held by the annual Spier Summer Season, Infecting The City received funding for the project by Spier to…
ArticleThe Basotho
… the scattered Sotho peoples who had been driven apart by Zulu and Ndebele raids, and for creating Lesotho, the … was in a strong position, the tribe was…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… population: driven out or drawn into the labour force By the time that Britain established a formal colony at the … San needed to survive and many of the San…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… and were denied the right to direct representation, even by a White person. Certain Non-White management bodies were … such bodies and freedom of decision…
English Settlement in South Africa
… to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India Company on their trading trips to the East. … In an armed conflict that ensued,…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… Connection: Western Investment in Apartheid , edited by First, J Steele and C Gurney, is published. 1970 First’s … Muammar Gaddafi responds to questions…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… time at the age of 15, he feels ashamed when he is taught by the younger more educated students, although none of the … years Kotane moves from job to job…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van Riebeeck on behalf of the Dutch East India … time, the reduction of grazing pastures…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… Dr. Dadoo was elected to the parties’ leadership in 1946. By the mid-60s the activities of the TIC had declined and by the early 1970s it was virtually non…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… Coloured schools was later to write: 'We haven't done much by way of teaching since the Soweto riots first began. Kids … actual discussion was neither…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… and Mohamed, 1960: 24). 1894 The Glen Gray Act, passed by Cecil Rhodes in the Cape, restricted the ability of … (Wilson, 1953: 243). 1903 The Locations Act…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… the homelands “the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians” . He made it clear that Blacks who said … Sobukwe's funeral, Buthelezi was…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… reflected the situation of oppression, but also was marked by an analytical character. Looking at the interiority of … in South Africa came to dominate…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… of his House of Assembly support but also increased it. By 1939 his wing of the United Party comprised some 70 MPs. … in 1934, then to 38 in the period up to…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… Orange Free State (OFS). This however was short-lived, and by 1902 at the end of the Anglo-Boer or South African War, … of the Union of South Africa could be…
ArticleKey sites
… included Simon’s Cafe, Goodwill Lounge, owned and run by Pompie Naidoo who brought overseas and local jazz … Kapitan's Balcony Hotel Kapitan’s Balcony Hotel…
ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
… Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National … of workers. Trade union action in the struggle for power…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… and 1980s. The Industrial Commercial Union (ICU), formed by Cements Kadalie in 1919, was the first real flowering of … of 100,000 at its peak in 1927, the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… with entrances in the front and rear that were guarded by Sirdars (Foremen) who maintained 'law and order' and had the power to arrest anyone breaking by…