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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…
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…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… Edward Durghardt Du Bois. A firm supporter of the ‘Back to Africa’ movement in the United States of America, Marcus … . 1958 December, The Sixth Pan African…
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…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… CONTENT West Africa before the European slave trade A map depicting the … West African Kingdoms. Image source The peoples of West Africa had a rich and…
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…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… apartheid government. Ruth First fought for a free South Africa that she would never behold for herself. Key Words: Ruth First, South Africa, Apartheid…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… Zimbabwe to lessen economic dependence on apartheid South Africa. 1981 BCP sympathiser Benjamin Masilo is attacked in … South African Defence Force. 1986…
TCOE Online Exhibition
… concerned with the crucial issue of land rights in South Africa. They are adapted from a rural people's … to: give insight into rural life and struggle in…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to land. Today this theory is … evidence to the contrary a number of parties…
Leon Madakeni
Leon Madakeni, star of the South African film Wanaka, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Died in exile in Angola
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… informed the struggle for fundamental freedoms in South Africa. The whole ideology of liberalism was seriously … an entire system of values on an indigenous…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… Poqo, the armed wing of the PAC, was established in South Africa to form cells and commence work towards the armed … Congress”. Banners written Pan…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… formed an organization, Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). A month later, it was renamed the Afrikaner … together for the survival of the Afrikaner…
Bheki Magubane
A member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid into Mozambique on 31…
BiographyMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi
Butshingi was born in Engcobo, Transkei on 28 February 1906, the second child of Valelo James Butshingi and Angeline Nokwenjenje (nee Thuswa). He attended…
BiographyPeter Mokaba
Peter Mokaba was born on 7 January 1959 in Polokwane, where he did both his primary and high school education. During the 1976 uprisings, Mokaba became a…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal. At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… we Sizwe (MK) that had ever taken place inside South Africa. This action was an unusual one for MK for two … paving the way to the negotiated settlement in…
Solomon Albert Mahutso
Solomon Albert Mahutso, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was killed in a South African Defence Force raid in…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… government to look for migrant workers outside South Africa, mainly from Mozambique and Malawi. 1970 Anglo American became the biggest mining group in…
ArticleClassroom: Educational sites for learners and educators
… as a source for the SAHO curriculum topics. Ancient Africa Kidipede, a history of africa for kids. History Detectives Join the history … of various histories…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Within a year of his joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), Dr Yusuf Dadoo's role as an activist in the … The National Conference of the…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… The emergence of South Africa's democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in … them, therefore 'Total strategy' was extended beyond South Africa's…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… [i] Zion Christian Church , Rita M. Byrnes, ed. South Africa: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996 - www.countrystudies.us…
BiographyMilwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba
Mnyaluza Pemba was born on 2 April 1912 at Hill’s Kraal in Korsten, Port Elizabeth. Although art classes were not offered at the Van der Kemp Mission Primary…
BiographyBhekisisa Harold Nxasana
… Democracy Education Trust The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 2: 1970-1980 . Pretoria: Unisa Press| G. …
BiographyFlorence Matomela
… July 2009]|Walker, C. (1991) Women and resistance in South Africa. 2nd Edition. David Phillip: Cape Town and …
BiographyNomkhosi Mary Mini
… (2002). Truth & Reconcilaition Commission of South Africa Report, Vol. 7 , Cape Town: Juta, p.428| …