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EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… action’ campaign in Ghana against British rule in 1950. He was released to lead the newly formed government a …
EventMaria Groesbeek is hanged for the murder of her husband, Christian Buys
… Maria Groesbeek and Christian Buys were married in the 1950's. During their seventeen years of marriage they lived …
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool. The book takes us back to the late 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… Klerk announced in Parliament that the Group Areas Act of 1950 will be replaced by new non-discriminatory measures …
PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
… of Law, Education, and Social Sciences established 1950 | Became the University of the Orange Free State 1954 | …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. Ngoyi became politically active in the African National Congress (ANC) as a member of the…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… February 2010. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/06/jacob-zuma-apology-affair-khoza ↵ [24] Pumza Fihlani,2012. … February 2010. https://www…
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… in South Africa, 34 km North of Welkom. It was founded in 1950 and administered by a village management board. Named …
PlaceKliptown Museum
The story the Kliptown Open Air Museum tells of the thousands of people who contributed to the drafting of the Freedom Charter through photographs, news…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… groups as set out in the Population Registration Act of 1950. The four groups were White, Coloured, Indian and Black. …
Document 10 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Flyer announcing Third Annual Conference, 17 January 1923
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 10 - Industrial and Commercial …
EventThe University of the Orange Free State is founded in Bloemfontein
… The University of the Free State was founded on 18 March 1950. The institution began as a small college in what was …
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
Martin Luther King, Junior, an African-American clergyman who orchestrated social change through non-violent methods was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta,…
EventJoe Slovo is born
Joe Slovo, the former South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From 1950s…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… and the Concept of Articulation: South Africa ca. 1900-1950, Beinhart states: It is widely recognized that the … and the Concept of Articulation: South…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
Jazz has had an especial role in the social and cultural politics of South Africa. This paper will trace its function in the political struggle waged by Black…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… a policy of statutory racial separation implemented after 1950, has resulted in what has become a prototypical model of … implementation of Apartheid Group…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… weakened the CNETU was the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. Most of the leaders of the trade unions were arrested …
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
The concepts of a nation state and a plural society are often seen to be at odds with one another. Jon Soske states, in his essay ‘The Impossible Concept:…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… their right of the African voters in the Eastern Cape. In 1950 the Nationalist Party headed by DF Malan changed the …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… ‘Berlin Blockade’ begins 1949 : July, NATO is ratified 1950 : February, McCarthy begins communist witchunt 1954 : …
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
A turning point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, including the formation of the PAC,…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
Dorkay House, a building at the south end of Eloff Street in downtown Johannesburg, functioned as the headquarters for the Union of South African Artists,…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
The Victorian Rotunda, a landmark in Camps Bay, is a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of high society in Cape Town at the turn of the…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… – 1949 Chapter 3 University Chapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 Chapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance Chapter 6 …
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
Oral interview with Peter Donald Hjul who was a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern Rhodesia in 1929,…