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Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… school students increased from approximately 12,500 to more than 34,000. What these figures highlight is the … black youth became leading actors in the…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… is that he has been almost entirely forgotten. Born to an Irish trader and the daughter of Maherero in 1867, … located a single repository for the Dream. It…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… in Johannesburg. The focus of the Dance Umbrella was to offer a free and open platform to any form of dance as … Stock Exchnage building,; Robyn Orlin’s…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… This was before the axe of the Group Areas Act fell to declare the area "white" and landlords were themselves … second floor, and the letters stood out like…
EventNelson Mandela is arrested
… a small town near Howick, Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training … Conference in Ethiopia. He was…
EventRiots erupt in East London, Eastern Cape
… Riots erupted in East London, Eastern Cape after strike meetings were banned by the government. 17 protesters … were killed, as well as an Irish Nun who was…
EventFour black newspapers are banned by the SA government
… banned, technically on the same day that the eight week strike of black journalists ends. Six days later, in the Rand Supreme Court, Justice Coetzee, refused…
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… was named: 'The Garden of van Oudtshoorn'. It was granted to a Dutch Baron, Pieter van Oudtshoorn van Rheede way back in 1741 by the then Governor of the…
The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … Education and other scholars had made inadequate attempts to uncover…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… modern History, has, in many instances, been relegated to mere footnote status in our mining history. While this may … fare to return home, were in search of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… consciousness philosophy. Image Source Essay Question: To what extent were Black South Africans were deprived of … power to white settlers. [3] This essay…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… spelt incorrectly as "Rolilahla") that he used to embark on a tour of some of the African states that had … and forty-three political prisoners began a…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… and in a state of semi-consciousness, taken by road to Pretoria for further interrogation. He later died in … to Lesotho, where they remained for a while…
Chapter VII - Democracy?
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph In January 1957 we were back again in the Drill Hall. The cage had been removed and our seats were now numbered. I found to my…
ArchiveNUM, FEDTRAW, rural, parliament and miscellaneous
… on NUM, as Anglo American Corporation yesterday appeal to the National Union of Mines workers to resume talks aimed at ending then two-week old gold and coal…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… student organizations, churches, sports and other bodies to unite and collectively oppose the state’s constitutional … State of Emergency is lifted The UDF…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… as ThabaNchu. 1846 Major Henry Douglas Warden appointed to set up a British residency in the area. 26 March, Warden's … built in St George's Street May, the…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… made him a popular hero. In 1799, Napoleon joined a plot to overthrow the Directors and to set up a new and stronger government. Napoleon took … the history…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… the African National Congress (ANC) leadership evolved to be more inclined to action than passive deputation, but very little was … Seme took over as…
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… Regulation Act in the wake of wide-spread labour unrest to set up a limited system of collective bargaining rights … which Africans - for the first time -…
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… African National Defence Force (SANDF) for their illegal strike about their poor living standards in Wallmansthal … through their spokesperson, Salvador…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… other people. This was important in the Iron Age. In order to maintain their political power, leaders had to accept strangers and integrate them into their…
Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the toast remarks by his Excellency, the President of the Republic of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, on the occasion of the State Banquet, Niamey, Republic of Niger 4 July 2006
… Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the toast remarks by his Excellency, the President of the …
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… Mrs Sobukwe in this hearing and we will ask Reverend Xundu to help you take an oath. REV XUNDU: Thank you Mr … said that I must cook him dinner, because he…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… with copper and iron inhabited the area between 350AD to 600AD. Linguistic and archaeological evidence indicates … that eventually peopled the region from…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 1
… 2 Background information: The content listed below applies to the last 10 000 years of the Later Stone Age. Older Stone Age periods go back over hundreds of…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… of the Cape and the establishment of the trade route to the Far East had far reaching consequences not just for … area. Vasco da Gama who sailed round the…
EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… Since Bartholomew Dias managed to circumnavigate the Cape in 1488 in an attempt to find a sea route to the spice lands of East Asia, numerous … before he and…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… Convention" in Johannesburg. The Convention was called to protest the Suppression of Communism bill and a ban … on 1st of May as undermining their own plan…