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ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… struggle against apartheid. Women helped transform South Africa into a new, free country where people now have a voice … so high a proportion of women in…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
Daniel William Alexander was born on 23 December 1883 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… and future status of all aboriginal natives of South Africa, and the relation in which they stand towards the … Thus, by the time the Land Act of 1913 was…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the … District 6 Museum JAG - Johannesburg Art Gallery Museum Africa Pretoria Art Museum South…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… close Document 6 Africans' claims in South Africa 16 December 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of…
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… by the African National Congress (ANC) and South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) forces based in Angola. … bases in Angola, creating entrance…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… of Fort Hare and joins fellow students from South Africa and other countries, eg Joe Mathews, Ntsu Mokhehle … considered a leading figure of Pan Africanism…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… Organisation is formed in Cape Town . 1910 Union of South Africa, which would be later called the Republic of South Africa, is formed. It unified the…
ArticleAfricanist News and Views (1968-1973)
… by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania (South Africa), expressed the Pan-Africanist viewpoint in the … Publishers: Pan Africanist Congress of Azania …
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… A tumultuous history has left women in present day South Africa with a number of challenges to overcome. Most … the fight against has been minimal. Girl…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… South Africa: The Cordoned Heart is considered as one of the … Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa which was headed by Professor…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… population With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. … set the colonial era apart from earlier…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… One of the most important developments in South Africa in this period was the formation of the Pact … to win the general elections held in the Union of South…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… with this pidgin; the spread of it across Southern Africa; the varieties of Fanakalo; and lastly, examples of … [8] Workers come from different areas within…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its … Black rural people live. The picture of Black…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… centres on discussions to rebuild the Party inside South Africa and to reintegrate Party members abroad into … 1971 Revival of the Natal Indian Congress in…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… historical moment in which resistance photography in South Africa came into existence. The basis for what is commonly … an indirect result. Peter Magubane,…
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in…
BiographyDerrick Vusimusi Nxumalo
Derrick Vusimusi Nxumalo was born in 1962 in Dumisa, Natal. Nxumalo passed Standard VIII at Phindavela High School. He received no formal art training. He…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… including those situated in the heart of urban white South Africa. In response, the Apartheid government intensified its … between the ANC in exile and its…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… her involvement in the ANC. She continued to serve South Africa during the post-apartheid era, as well as in present … when her husband was away fighting for…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… beliefs, and traditions that make up the nation of South Africa. The question of National or Cultural heritage is, … is that in a former settler colony such…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… the Voortrekkers. This opened up the interior of South Africa to further colonial conquest. Conquest and land … systematic land dispossession and segregating…
BiographySimon Petros (Peter) Matseke
Simon Peter Matseke was born in Pretoria in 1878, but little is known about his early life except that he was a member of the Bakgatlo tribe. He was drafted as…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… May 1957 The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable Sir, At a time … among the African people in the…
Testimony of the Rev. Samuel Jacobus Brander, the Rev. Joshua Mphothleng Mphela, and Stephen Nguato of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, October 4, 1904 [Extracts]
Mandela: Message to India
… to India 18 June 1994 [ On the occasion of an India-South Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the post-apartheid South … sent a message in his capacity as the…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Colonial Land Wars Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As the years … of Argentinian fodder and horses being…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… over the next two decades into the economic powerhouse of Africa. It led to a scramble by the British colonial … to expand their political control over all…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… The founding conference of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) takes place in Cape Town and the party’s … also adopts Nkosi Sikelel’ i-Afrika (‘Lord…