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Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
… freed of institutional racism at universities. [12] End notes: [1]Kadzamira Modjadji, “Three of the most prominent …
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… Early Poetry of Arthur Nortje. Current Writing: Text End Notes [i] Craig McLuckie and Ross Tyner, “The Raw and the …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 3) The Broederbond Just as it was the white man’s way to think and dream for the…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate Library
… taste but also Lady Florence Phillips, whose handwritten notes are also on display. Currently, the library is styled …
PlaceoThongathi, previously Tongaat
The area was formally developed around 1848–1850 when land was granted to settlers for sugar cultivation. Derived from the Zulu word 'uThongathi', which…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first…
Independent Electoral Commission
INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION IEC) Residents of Soweto queue up to cast their votes in South Africa's third democratic elections April 2004 VISION…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… which showed an enormous amount of drawings and notes on sites from many different periods. William …
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
ArticleCommunism in Russia 1900 to 1940
How was communism applied in Russia under Lenin and Stalin? Background and Focus In this topic, as well as the next, the rise of the two economic systems…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… a lot of paper. There were lecturing and research notes going back to 1968. There were also political papers. … from the showers. I was on my way in, and we…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… the blind spots created by the policies of apartheid. End notes [1] Get this from internet ↵ [2] Walter Benjamin, …
PlaceBoskop Village, Nature Reserve and Dam- near Potchefstroom
Boskop Dam and Nature Reserve is located in the Mooi River Valley 20 km North of the Town of Potchefstroom a short distance from the R501 Carletonville Road…
ArchiveIsisebenzi December 1972 (English Translation)
… COPYRIGHT) LOCO ( WORKERS HAND HOLDING A CHAIN) EDITORS NOTES: We have a lot of issues to cover in this publication. …
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
In the early hours of 7 May 1945, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed unconditional surrender documents to…
EventPeter Scott is born
… 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Canada.[vii] End Notes [i] Peter Scott, …
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… national strategies for GBV in South Africa. [24] End notes [1] Unknown Author, “What is Gender-Based Violence,” …
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
… of its workmanship and the beauty of its sound. The bass notes have been said to “reverberate through the body of the listener” and the higher notes to carry…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
Certain historians have erroneously asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery but the fact of the matter is that…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
Overview Balthazar Johannes Vorster (also known as BJ Vorster or John Vorster) was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, after having served…
Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)
The Institute for Industrial Education (IIE) was founded in Durban, in May 1973, to serve as a school for trade unionists of all races and to provide basic…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… African Jews, Australia: Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd. End Notes [i] South African History Online, “Eli Weinberg,” South …
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… concentration camp. A member of the Cape Mounted Rifles notes in his diary: "She is 84 years old. I gave her some …
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… of Can Themba. Braamfontein: Ravan Press Ltd, pp. 1-3. End Notes [i] Another source states that he was born in 1923. ↵ …
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… that would kindle his creativity. One of his earlier poems notes: Verulam has undergone unheard of metamorphoses With …
The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016
… in African Affairs based in Pretoria, South Africa. NOTES AND REFERENCES [1] Dani Wadada Nabudere, The Political …
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… SA History Online website (www.sahistory.org.za), which notes: “More than 100 delegations took place from early 1985 … and “off-record” explorations…