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PlacePhuthaditjhaba, Free State
Phuthaditjhaba is a Sotho town in the province of the Free State. Flanked by the drama of the Drakensberg Mountains and the Maluti Mountains, Phuthaditjhaba is…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… or, to use a more correct expression, out of their African civilization, have for generations remained quite, … had the chagrin of being treated as the…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… of class oppression in the particular context of South African politics and society –all were there in the songs … this had on maintaining meaningful contact…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… for the past two decades, as chief executive of the South African History Online (Saho) website. During a pandemic … the attendant trauma inflicted on…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Racism against Indians
… author of the Preamble was left Isolated and as a South African, I myself felt the humiliation. I then thought that … The memo states that the local…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… to extend the area of human freedom in South Africa, other African patriots - devoted men - did so before me! I also, as … it is a welcome recognition of the…
PlaceOuteniqua Pass-N9
The Outeniqua Pass is a relatively modern Pass, connecting the Coastal Town of George with Oudtshoorn and the Little Karoo. It was first built in 1942 - 1951…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… Union Federation, Amadou N`diaye, Secretary of the All African Trade Union Federation and revolutionary leaders of … Conference: Report on the Strategy and…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens who have excelled in the fields of arts, … by men and women who carry the colourful South African aloft…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… (1866), W. C. Holden was one of the early writers on South African history to publish a book that used the theory of … two groups. Much of the idea of the …
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… of the country. These riots continued until 1986, when the African National Congress (ANC) called on South Africans to … international criticism, because ‘it…
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Drake Tshenkeng B. NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS ORGANISATION (SASO) Elected at the formal … for the Educational and Cultural Advancement…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… educational system was Euro-centric, and undermined African achievement. The Africanist revival of African history that centred around themes such as African…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… under the umbrella organization, the SAIC (South African Indian Congress). However, in the 1930s-1940s the NIC … Indian Congress, the three later went on to…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… may be traced. We observe a permanent see-saw between African unity, which fades quicker and quicker into the mists … side, the leaders who have been the…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Men like Ahmed Mohammed Cachalia and Thambi Naidoo gave up family life to work alongside Gandhi. Though wives and …
PlaceOhrigstad
Ohrigstad was founded in 1845 by Hendrik Potgieter, the well-known "Voortrekker" leader. He named the Town after himself and George Ohrig: Andries-Ohrigstad…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… your work, continue to strive for your ideals, so that the family you are building or hope to build some day can live … in the Federal Parliament. Now they…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… on the social and political structure of the South African society. This alone is evidence of there being … but she seemed to gravitate towards disadvantaged…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… they transplanted their Dutch Reformed theology to the African continent. Jan van Riebeeck formally established the … groups to pray under, one umbrella,…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new democratic … Constitution was also the birth…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted the charge that South African movement was engineered and controlled from India and … no pecuniary benefit from Phoenix, the…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… for more than 20 years [ii] . Mzilikazi was a Southern African King who founded the Matebele kingdom, Matebeleland … the Boer-populated Transvaal (former…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… against the apartheid government. In both coloured and African townships in Cape Town protests and against the … security forces led by a Vlakplas based unit…
PlaceVictoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Zambia
… to a diverse array of aquatic life, including the famous African fish eagle. The falls and their surrounding ecosystem …
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… of the Superpowers. Despite its racist policies, the South African government was supported by many governments in the … Britain and the USA. This was…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the Rivonia Trial …
PlaceKoringberg
… Koringberg, one of many in the areas to have its roots in the church. It was only when the …
PlaceRetreat, Cape Town
Retreat is a Suburb of City of Cape Town, Western Cape with a postal code. It is about 15 kms West-North-West of the Provincial Capital City of Cape Town. The…