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ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… ambiguous role in the history and affairs of the region. On the one hand they were driven by a strong desire to … social changes which would improve its…
ArticleFederation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW)
… The Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) was formed on the 8th of December 1984, bringing together close to 200 … (now known as Gauteng). The formation of…
ArticleCommunism in Russia 1900 to 1940
… different spaces. The US , having conquered slavery, was on its way ( albeit, slowly) towards CAPITALISM while the … was largely feudal in nature. The US…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… and that while their union work was still focussed on 'economistic' demands around wages and conditions of work, … economic sectors, including hotels 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…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… Party (SACP): one of the first Marxist-Leninist parties on the continent, and among the oldest surviving parties in … as well as to take stock of the recent…