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South African Labour history
… by the two South African governments in power in the 1920s …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… modernisation in White agriculture that had started in the 1920s and 1930s continued after World War II and into the …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… organizing dockworkers in Cape Town. By the middle of the 1920s, it had spread to other parts of the country, including …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… ensured by different forms of urban control. In the early 1920s, the government of Jan Smuts set out a basic framework …
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… in rural areas without approval from the Governor-General. 1920s Non-whites move into the freehold townships of … enforce residential segregation to prevent…
A growing urban African population
… hundred. As the population of the township grew during the 1920s and 1930s, the racial breakdown changed dramatically. … Although women migration was in…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and 1930s, most of the tailors and dressmakers in South …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
1824 The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824. 1877 The first biography ever written…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan … fan," while teaching at Adams College…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… figures within American society, and from the 1880s to the 1920s developed a political system that relied on the close … and equal society that everyone…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
When? The first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (see timeline) and the origin of Aids and HIV has puzzled scientists ever…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
This is a list is part of the The ANC and the turn to the armed struggle: UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown |1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… opposite the Rissik Street post office. By the end of the 1920s, the town’s economy had tightened considerably and, … as an area for commercial expansion,…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of the influx control provisions of the 1923 Act in the 1920s. As time passed, the Act was amended to regularise its … townships of Brixton, Newlands, and…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… that helped foster growing African nationalism in early 1920s . Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) was …
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… between people of different ethnicities. During the 1920s, Afrikaner nationalism was gaining momentum and was …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… of shack settlements throughout the peninsula in the 1920s in places such as Woodstock, Maitland, Windemere and …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) was launched in Duncan Village outside East London in March 1961. The launch followed a…
ArticleZulu
… was ruthlessly suppressed ( see Bambatha Rebellion ). The 1920s saw fundamental changes in the Zulu nation. Many were …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… despised the Treaty of Versailles and throughout the 1920s and 1930s German politicians tried to reverse the terms of the treaty. In the 1920s Hitler and the…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… of the WEAU with bored but stubborn indifference. By the 1920s, with Afrikaner women workers beginning to enter the …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… several splits and fusions. Economically the late 1920s and early 1930s were difficult years. There was a … to tighten control of Black workers by passing…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
On 17 June 1992 the Joe Slovo Informal settlement in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in…
Zulu Community
… as land was expropriated and enclosed. Therefore the 1920s saw fundamental changes in the Zulu nation. Many were … workers in Natal in the early twentieth…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… farmer and assistant salesperson at a local trading store. 1920s 1928 April, Tambo and his brother, Alan, enrolled at …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
ArticlePan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… Garveyism The majority of the political activists of the 1920s - including members of the ICU, the Communist Party and …