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ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… Nkosi and Kgalema Montlante are transported with masks on in a car near Manzini in Swaziland to Tim Maseko’s house … single-storey house opposite Methodist…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all -- of which all of humanity can be proud." - A … quote from Oliver Tambo speaking at…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… now it has transpired, has taken most of us by surprise. On Friday afternoon last, the 16th inst, the large barque … signalled the fact of her having a large…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… On 20 July 1985 the government declared a State of Emergency … did sometimes turn violent especially as they were forced on people who did not initially…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… as a necessary means to ensure Africa be taken seriously on the world stage, especially as it prepared to take its … which had, in the past, maintained…
EPILOGUE
… the government regarding the purpose of negotiations lies, on the one hand, in our commitment to constitutionality and a transitional government as soon as…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… The following article is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone … It…
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… of True Afrikaners) was launched in Paarl, Western Cape on 14 August 1875. The society was dedicated to the … brother DF du Toit, Pannevis and Hoogenhout met…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding … 7 June, The Foreign Office of London…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… for influence in Africa, between the US and Western powers on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries on the other. Most of newly…
ArticleArts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)
… and Culture organizations. ‘ACDN’ made representation on policy to Parliament as well as lobbied aggressively ACDN was an initiative on the part of Western…
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… in the 1970s. It aimed to create a Boer state based on the old Afrikaner republics. Website: http://awb.co.za/ 'On 7 August 1993, Eugene Terreblanche, the…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… they, in turn, placed growing demands for land and labour on the local African populations. The Europeans resorted to … local consumer demand and to reduce…
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… an effective defense capability. This decision was based on an extensive review the whole country had undertaken to … unit led by then judge Willem Heath and…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on something that people don’t want to look at. [1] Tambo’s … the South African government placed…
Liberation
… from our homes, of poverty in rural areas, of oppression on the farms and of starvation in the bantustans. We have … while 20 million rural Black people…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… led government. 2002 30 October, Just after midnight on 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter…
The Atlantic slave trade
… But responsibility for the slave trade is not simple. On the one hand, it was indeed the Europeans who purchased … and sent them far away to work in their…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… the conditions. As a result, she is arrested and charged on a number of occasions. 16 October, Alfred Nzo submits a letter, on behalf of the ANC, to the…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… period of solitary confinement they were formally charged on 16 June 1971 with conspiracy to overthrow the state, … of Journalists (OIJ) awarded him a gold…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… We left them last June, despite differences of opinions, on the best of intimate terms, but in our absence they have … here (he hadjust retumed to C.T. when…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… of imperialism and republicanism, the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, tension between political leaders, the … block for the British Empire. The…
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… Rumours had it that the Insurrections Ensemble was working on a piece loosely based on Aime Cesaire’s version of the Tempest for 2015. It has … than its…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… a herrenvolk (‘master race’). APDUSA referred to a report on the conditions of native Angolans under Portuguese … by the apartheid government was poised to…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… slaves worked in Cape Town, although some were based on company outposts and used in rural labour... ” (Worden, … from the rural districts of the Cape…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… Please read the article and send us your comments on this debate. We will be posting all of your comments on our blog. Pledging to Debate History The pledge…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… prepare for the launch of a national student organisation. On 23 November the new structure, AZASO was established by … others. The 1980s decade saw a wave…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… The African Students Association (ASA) was established on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the … of ASA was the Sharpeville massacre which…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… in the back of a police van, to Pretoria. He died there on 12 September 1977. Biko's funeral was the first big … and began to smash windows and sjambok [whip…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… to the PDL. 1973 Early January – 1,200 night watchmen go on strike, demanding a wage increase of R10 per month. 8 … increase of R2 a week but management…