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Remarks by President Thabo Mbeki at the Consultative Meeting of African Governors on Voice and Participation of Developing and Transition Countries in the Bretton Woods Institutions: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 12 March 2004
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… systematic land dispossession and segregating South Africa. The Khoikhoi, San and Black Africans under the … of colonial expansion and land dispossession in…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… African National Congress (ANC) by performing at events in Africa and Europe. Johnny Dyani is best known for his … band that performed for a short period in…
BiographyDeton (Tito) Zungu
Tito Zungu was born in 1946 in Mapumulo district, Natal. Zungu received no formal education or art training. As a teenager he made clay models and in 1957 he…
BiographyMabel Balfour
Mabel Balfour was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid activist. Balfour was first involved with the unions representing food and canning…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1971 Statement by OR Tambo to the People of South Africa on the 10th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe . 16 … " Speech by Oliver Tambo at Meeting to…
BiographyDaniel R Koza
Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and the…
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… and for the building of a united, greater and free South Africa, full franchise rights must be extended to all … to all democratic and freedom loving…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… The Constitutional Court was established in 1994 by South Africa's first democratic constitution - the interim … in the land in all constitutional matters…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… HISTORY - TERM 2 Topic: The first farmers in southern Africa Suggested contact time One term/15 hours This content … 2 Background information: The first…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… Africans could be hopeful for a better future in South Africa. The focus of this piece would be on the position … role of the media during the transition…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… the different components of the liberation forces in South Africa on a common and shared vision of an alternative and … in practical terms in various spheres…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… cause of the end of apartheid. Under apartheid, South Africa was a fascist state with a capitalist economy. The … During the Cold War, there was a contest…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… the crash a Commission, made of representatives from South Africa, Mozambique and Soviet Union, was instituted to … government. There was also mounting…
BiographyWilliam Philip Schreiner
William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, and a proponent for the integration of all ‘civilised men' including …
Women at the start of the 20th century
… or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. … important role played by women in twentieth…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as a…
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… resolution demanding that all political prisoners in South Africa be released. Organisation of African unity is formed. … countries united against the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… Kingdom that it would be resuming arms sales to South Africa’s apartheid government. November, Mandela was allowed … calls for a National Convention of all…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… dream for her to become an educated Black woman in South Africa. Her journey led her to become a founding member of … was born on 4 July 1952, in the fourth…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… in Soweto witnessed thousands of students leaving South Africa to join liberation organisations (primarily the ANC and the PAC) based in Southern Africa. The…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… of his birth" (Plaatjie, S.T. (1916). Native Life in South Africa, London: PS King, p.21.) With the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the South…
References and links: Local History
… Books Cameron T. (ed) 1986. An Illustrated History of South Africa. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. Carruthers V. 2000. The … D. J. (ed) 1973. Standard…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… of people, and became the most widely read magazine in Africa at the time. A 1959 article in Time magazine, entitled 'Drum Beat in Africa', stated that 240…
The National Arts Festival
… opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They established the tradition of celebrating … The NAF is one of the oldest cultural events…
ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
… by decade events account of the women's struggle in South Africa. 1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley … and becomes the first Black professional…
BiographyNosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi was born on 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu (Western Cape). She was the Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… the most widely read newspaper amongst Africans in South Africa.” It was published irregularly for over two decades … of the paper addressed a variety of…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 1
… - TERM 1 Topic: Hunter-gatherers and herders in southern Africa Suggested contact time One term/15 hours This content … hundreds of thousands of years…