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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…
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…
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…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… Panel on the State Security Agency, which was chaired by former Minister Sydney Mufamadi, I will soon be announcing … re-establishment of the National…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… Introduction The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the self-governing … were offered collaborator candidates who were chosen…
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…
OSEO report on Allan Boesak
… exceeded what was reasonable, and that he was helped by the Foundation's bookkeeper, Freddie Steenkamp, who … a report after being instructed to look into…