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EventSoweto students begin protest against the compulsory use of Afrikaans
… by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development and … M. C. Botha. On that date 2 000 Black…
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… the persistant tensions in Bophuthatswana homeland came to a head after the homeland's government decided against … The President, Lucas Mangope, wished for…
EventSoweto High School under siege
… on school boycotts. The arrested students were taken to Moroka police station where their names were recorded … presence at the school.Teachers in Cape Town…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… Wally Serote during apartheid South Africa in the mid to late 20th century. During this time, Serote wrote many … and away from his fellow South Africans,…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… words, the formation of the ANC was a direct response to the nefarious act, which alienated the black majority from … our babies; our mothers used to go to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… will tell you, Friday's programme did not lend itself to such an engagement. But I should also commend you for one … these freedoms rather than the other way…
EventThe Young Communist League (YCLSA) is officially formed
… a supportive role during the great white mineworkers’ strike when 25,000 white miners downed tools because the Chamber of Mines proposed to dismiss about…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… For this complex period to be studied, the Sharpeville massacre, Soweto uprising and … to the fact that large number of people were shot in the back as they…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Celebration of National Day of Reconciliation, Freedom Park, Tshwane, 16 December 2005
… and gentlemen Fellow South Africans I am very honoured to speak here today on the occasion of an important milestone … mind seem as though they happened a…
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
… was founded in 1892 and much of its early growth was due to the nearby coal Mines. The City is well known for being … visitors for many decades before that…
PlaceVaal River and Dam, Gauteng, Free State, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga
… of drinking water , it lies on the Vaal River close to Vereeniging , midway between the N1 and the N3, and … , in Mpumalanga Province, it flows 1,210 km…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… Background What is today referred to as the “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival … this festival lasted from some time before 776 B.C. to 393 A.D…
Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union
… in raising the industry from its original primitive level to a position which is modern, not only by South African, but … keeps that spirit alive. We…
EventPupils boycott classes in defiance of the use of Afrikaans in their schools
… in certain subjects in schools. The unrest spread to Belle Higher Primary School, Thulasizwe Higher Primary … about South African event internationally since…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… South African capital was developed with government help to finance the factories How the changing labour needs of the … the war, the British economy slowly…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… organisational formations, in different political units, to fight on their own fronts; but also to address the common … a legitimate government of their own…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… organisational formations, in different political units, to fight on their own fronts; but also to address the common … a legitimate government of their own…
EventSchool boycott in Port Elizabeth ends
… Port Elizabeth's Black secondary school children decided to end a four month boycott of classes. This followed after … (PESCO), a new student's body formed…
EventThe passive resistance movement begins with a mass meeting of 2000 Africans
… mass meeting of two thousand Africans in Vrededorp decided to reject the passes. The next day, three thousand Africans … Native National Congress (SANNC) had…
EventSAP fighting in Zimbabwe
… This follows an attempt by several hundred guerrillas to invade South and South West Africa (renamed Namibia), from … remained in Rhodesia in readiness for…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… examines the history of forced removals in Johannesburg up to the destruction of Sophiatown. It begins by establishing … few families removed from the inner…
ArticleSharpeville
… Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and thereafter gather … country’s jails would be filled and the…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… a result of subarachnoid haemorrhage. The primary injury to his head, which was the most obvious cause of death, was … the attempt to attribute his death to…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of preventing and settling disputes by conciliation but to give the police wider powers to deal with strikers and to … and servant" society and it was his…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… In September 1915, the Union Government offered to raise an infantry battalion of Cape Coloured men for … were placed in the press announcing that…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… by its authors as the apartheid government's response to the perceived threat of the 'total onslaught'. The total onslaught, the story went, was the threat…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… People can be great sources of information. By speaking to people we can learn about the past. Learners are also … of historical information. A possible…
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… of the military precision of a well planned pre-emptive strike by an outside group.”The South African Defence Force … spokesman did not comment, claiming…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… who spoke no Black South African language but used English to spread the message of worker unity. Formed in the stormy … powerful impact when the Cape Town…