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ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… Pretoria’s founder – a man by the name of Marthinus Wessels Pretorius - arrived in … a new town for the new state of the Transvaal. [v] By end of 1855, the…
Key terms and definitions Grade 12 topic 4
… Ghettos an area, usually outside a city, that is occupied by a minority group Imposed use of force to put something … operating in secrecy usually be…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… the magazine’s 60 th anniversary, which we are celebrating by publishing new material and key profiles over the next … The magazine, initially established as…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… in the Transvaal, Natal and the Eastern Cape. It grew by successfully improving the conditions of its members, … Union Advisory and Coordinating Council …
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… the death of Biko left a vacuum similar to the one created by the banning of the ANC and the PAC after Sharpeville. On … escalated as political activism…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… respect of the new townships. The NRB started the process by undertaking a survey of Sophiatown. The survey was … composition of families, family incomes,…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… the area further westwards. The Basotho wars were preceded by the mass migration of several Nguni groups. This migration … due to competition for resources,…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its formation was precipitated by dynamics within the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). … need to rejuvenate politics within the…
ArticleKora
… among the Nama herders and groups of San hunter-gatherers. By then, the Korana had become well-armed and some sources … to note however, that livestock raids…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… be given to special diets for patients. Social Aspects: by 1885 the Indian population had reached around 30 000. … were registered, of which 865 were still…
The South African Human Rights Commission
… It is also given additional powers and responsibilities by other national legislation. Since its inauguration on 2 … the noble ideals expressed in our…
The National Arts Festival
… and innovation across the arts. Tau performed by One Man and His Dog and The Market Theatre Photograph by Jan Potgieter Image source The Festival The…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… The depression was caused by a number of serious weaknesses in the economy. Although … 24, 1929 when 16 million shares of stock were quickly sold by…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s … of the Act allowed for almost unchecked…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… The first issue of Indian Opinion , the newspaper started by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and M.H. Nazar, is published in … all Indians to compulsory…
The State of Art in South Africa Conference
… The State of Art in South Africa Conference was chaired by Neville Dubow, then head of the Michaelis School of Art. … this refusal was the call towards non…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… at universities and universities of technology were led by the student organisation called the South African … police leading to tragic outcomes. The major…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… full and free democratic country. The TRC was established by the first democratic president Nelson Mandela under the … which transcends the conflicts and…
ArticleLives of Courage
… we have yet to sufficiently acknowledge the role played by ordinary South Africans in the Liberation Struggle. … Project, 2000 The ‘Lives of Courage’…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… order to meet the requirements of the service post set up by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) at the Cape of Good … Hope. Expansion of the Cape Colony was…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… Herstigte Nasionale Party concerning territorial claims by the Government of Lesotho, to which the Government the … Lesotho and South Africa was in places…
ArticleSweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU)
… into northern and southern Natal and the Transvaal by 1977. By 1982, it had succeeded in organizing 100 per cent of the …
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… roles as caregivers and Xhosa men, Xolani is challenged by the behaviour and taunts of his initiate, Kwanda, who is … governs the lives of these men…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… of the Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) is stimulated by the arrest of one of its organisers, Selby Msimang in … take more radical positions that it has…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… at Hartbeesfontein began to be visited increasingly by researchers, including Barrie Biermann, Constance … creation of an architecture. This is often…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… 1679 : Van der Stel arrives at the Cape, accompanied by his four sons and sister in-law Cornelia Six. He soon … the Company with livestock. Captain Dorha was…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… In 1887 Zululand was annexed by the colony of Natal and the Zulu were gradually stripped … arable land. There was widespread poverty, made worse by a series…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… frustration at having their freedom of movement restricted by the hated official passes . The bravery of these women … in the pages that follow, on the…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner I have shown in The Eye of the Needle that … I think that such a moral point can validly be made by…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… to Walter in 1944, Albertina was warned in a speech by Anton Lembede, an ANC Youth League activist. Knowing … to smuggle messages to Ruth First, who was in…