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Article1973 Durban Strikes
… workers employed in Durban, had come out on strike. South Africa’s Apartheid Government and its White capitalist allies …
The CASA Conference
… Movement, organised the Culture in Another South Africa (CASA) conference and festival in Amsterdam on 14 - 19 … in the struggle for liberation and democracy…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… named St Marks) region, Transkei (now Eastern Cape), South Africa, to Gilbert and Mary. He is the fifth of six children. … becomes a member of the Unity…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… Anglo-Boer War, there were six British colonies in South Africa. They were all separate, with their own governments. … the colonies were brought together as…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… Luthuli leave Rhodesia and return to the Union of South Africa. Albert joins the household of his uncle Martin … allies in the struggle for freedom in the…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… recognition internationally. Wins the CNA Prize (South Africa's highest literary honour), and the Geoffrey Faber and … the country's civil unrest. 1986…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ago. Several human remains … Khoisan were the first modern people…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… the seizure of White-owned farms. 5 December, South Africa holds local government elections. To read the ANC’s … to the HIV/AIDS and STI strategic plan for…
BiographyEphraim Mojalefa Ngatane
Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane was born in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938. He moved to Johannesburg in about 1943, where he was educated at the Mooki…
BiographyVirginia Engel
Virginia Engel was born on 27 April 1950 in Cape Town. She married Desmond Engel and they have three daughters, Tania, Kim and Liza. Her exposure to apartheid…
Prehistory of the Nelspruit area
… Prehistory of the Nelspruit area Prehistory of Southern Africa Lying just below the escarpment, Nelspruit is the … was a burial from a higher level…
BiographyNkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo
Nkosinathi Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of…
BiographyMohammed Valli Moosa
It was, however, only at university that Moosa got involved in politics. He attended the University of Durban-Westville, where he obtained his BSc degree in…
ArticleThe “Wind of Change” speech
… century is whether the uncommitted peoples of Asia and Africa will swing to the East or to the West. Will they be … of self-government that are now being…
Grade 5 Archive
… topic we will look at the heritage and identity of South Africa’s different provinces, including each one’s government … question. Evidence of these…
ArticlePoqo
… to the injustice of the White minority state of South Africa, but Poqo proved more dangerous at the time. Its … (1976-1983) In the 1960s there were conflicts…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… that leaving the Commonwealth was a mistake and that South Africa was now on a difficult path. Others English speakers … especially as they saw…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… to the 1916 edition of The Guide to South and East Africa , stood at 900 whites and 960 blacks. When WWI broke … the Germans. The plan to invade German-held…
ArticleSS Mendi
… greatest wartime maritime disaster ever suffered in South Africa. During the First World War , there was a shortage of … Botha , the current Prime Minister…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… making plans for MK to get training outside of South Africa. The South African government was however not prepared … was able to break the strength of the…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… was an active supporter of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) even though he addressed its meetings at Red … quotas. 1954 The Indian High Commission…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… students formed the African Students’ Union of South Africa and students who where loyal to the Non-European Unity … discrimination and segregation in the…
BiographyJonathan Ngwenya
Col Jonathan Ngwenya received his basic military training as APLA activist in Conakry, Guinea in 1977. He completed his Instructor Course at Kwame Nkrumah…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South…
The girl child
… Gender differences manifest themselves in South Africa in the altogether different experiences of boys and … the school drop-out rates among girls. Many…
ArchivePress statement on the Industrial Conciliation Act following a joint meeting between the Federation of S.A. Trade Unions, The Western Province General Workers Union, The Food and Canning Workers Union and The African Food and Canning Workers Union.
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… to find a sea-route to India around the south coast of Africa, reach the coast of Guinea, West Africa. 1483 Diogo Cão, a navigator acting under the ……
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4. Political Profiles 1882| SADET, (2004). The Road to Democracy in South Africa…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… Black Consciousness Movement rose to prominence in South Africa in the 1970s and forms one of Gordimer’s central … white liberalism which, in the particular…