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ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… main concerns was to avoid discord between English and Afrikaner workers, in the hope of a united, white working … in 1913. The Labour Party saw the union of…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… liberals who subscribed to the old Cape egalitarian ideal of equal rights for “civilised” men, irrespective of …
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… participation in its formation and future. The British and Afrikaner land owners and industrialists set in motion a … and an election candidate for Tembuland…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… Union of South Africa in 1910 Transvaal When the Dutch or Afrikaner Boers left the Cape with the Great Trek, they moved … colony called Natal. The…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
Conflict among civic organisations
… was 16 December 1982, a date that was rallying point for Afrikaner nationalists and conversely an important one for …
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… Louis Trichardt, and Potgietersrust were named after Afrikaner leaders. They became, Polokwane, Makhoda, and …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… of the Indian population live in KwaZulu-Natal. The Afrikaner population is especially concentrated in the …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… of the security, freedom and peaceful co-existence of the Afrikaner volk (people), the Democratic Party (DP) advocated …
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… of the South African governments existing before the Afrikaner Nationalist Party came to power in 1948. The main …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… The underlying igneous rocks produce a rich, dark soil ideal for sorghum cultivation. Although the area suffers …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… escape the British imperialism. The formation of Union was ideal for the Afrikaners, as shown in a letter from Jan Smuts … them at their own game: Rugby,…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… nationalism that positioned itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and … National Party (NP) led by DF…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… of the South African government existing before the Afrikaner Nationalist Party came to power in 1948. The main … of the award, on a day selected because it…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… support base was the English speaking White miners and the Afrikaner National Party who relied on the support of Afrikaner workers and the rural lobby…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… by sharp and controversial shifts to the left of his Afrikaner nationalist roots. Terreblanche served on several …
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… along the Apies River to establish the capital of all the Afrikaner communities in South Africa. He called the new town …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… Kuchipudi of Andhra Pradesh and Manipuri of Manipur. The Afrikaner community hold folk dancing events (volkspele) as …
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… party that had risen to power as a result of increasing Afrikaner nationalism. This party enforced laws and acts onto … winning, but without losing either. …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… Transvaal (today Mpumalanga ) were largely held by Afrikaner capital (with ESCOM historically being a key instrument in enabling the growth of Afrikaner…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… that preceded the Treaty of Vereeniging in May 1902, the Afrikaner leaders gave as a third reason the fact that "the … will not be decided until after the…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… the single most important element in the folk memory of Afrikaner Nationalism. However, far from being the peaceful … the single most important element in…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… York. Thabo Mbeki has dinner for the first time with an Afrikaner Woman, Christine De Lange. The South African … conference in Dakar, Senegal with a group of…
Khoisan Identity
… as belonging to different subgroups. Those of Khoikhoi and Afrikaner descent, for example, often classified themselves … the names of many Khoisan…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… to Delagoa Bay. Andries Hendrik Potgieter set up the first Afrikaner settlement in Ohrigstad in 1845, some distance from …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… people. Resistance Intensifies The rise of aggressive Afrikaner nationalism and the attempts to reshape and …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… and Moshoeshoe makes Thaba Bosiu his capital. 1834 Afrikaner trekkers enter the territory, beginning a series of …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… opposed to the President's reform process, such as the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging (AWB), led by Eugene …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… the exiled ANC leaders and they even blocked the visits of Afrikaner student leaders by withdrawing their passports. … press was at the centre of the…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… the exiled ANC leaders and they even blocked the visits of Afrikaner student leaders by withdrawing their passports. … press was at the centre of the…