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Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… strategies to influence public opinion within South Africa with the view to rebuilding its clandestine … between the exiled ANC and groupings from within…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different … of Union were visited on the Black people of…
Alexia Webster
… Alexia spent the next five years travelling through South Africa and the African continent as a freelance …
Leonora van den Heever
Van den Heever was born in Windhoek in 1926 but attended school in Bloemfontein. She went on to complete her MA in English at the University of Pretoria, and…
BiographyJoseph Sallie Molefi
Joseph Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in Johannesburg, matriculating in 1948.’ He…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… Black people. In the 1920s, the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) already had a youth wing. Young people took … who were later to join the Communist…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… own self-government, but the economic structure of South Africa made that impossible (Marquard, 1969: 256). During the … transactions and property occupation…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… of political offences to those inside and outside South Africa. All persons who may be affected will be considered. … line with the new dynamic situation…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… tyres and clothing for the war effort in Europe, North Africa and Asia. This forced people in the rural areas to … National Congress (ANC) and Communist…
ArticleGreater St. Lucia Wetland
… The Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park is South Africa's first Natural World Heritage Site. It was declared on 1 December 1999 by Unesco and is South Africa's…
Early Resistance, the 1913 Land Act and deputations to London
… to involve themselves with the internal affairs of South Africa. After World War I (WW1), it was decided to send yet … not prepared to interfere in the…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… they moved together, further into the interior of South Africa. The Hottentots Holland Mountains can be seen as a … something that is yours Land…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… to create a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary South Africa. The UDF had indeed won its main demands. 1991. Poster … the ANC and of the UDF . As the ANC…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the … Herero had possibly migrated earlier from…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… occupying land in what was considered “White South Africa”. Included among these communities identified for … th century. In the aftermath of the Great…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… eventually permanent European settlements in the Americas, Africa and India. Early European voyages of trade and … the first European to sail around the…
Dora Nginza
Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting…
BiographyDon Mattera
Donato Francisco Mattera was born in Western Native Township, now called Westbury, Johannesburg in 1935. His grandfather was an Italian immigrant who married a…
BiographyTiyani Lybon Mabasa
Tiyani Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in Soweto.During his high…
BiographySchalk Burger
General Schalk Willem Burger was born on the 6 September 1852. At the age of 21 he worked as a clerk at Lydenburg in the office of the field coronet. During…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… stance. Within the context of Post-Apartheid South Africa, Mda’s novel traces the diverging arguments related to … alternative and autonomous development…
BiographyKippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
Moeketsi was born on 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste…
BiographyCyprian Mpho Shilakoe
Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe was born on 3rd August 1946 in Barberton, Eastern Transvaal. Shilakoe spent his childhood on an isolated mission station at Buchbeesreich…
BiographyNyiko Floyd Shivambu
Nyiko Floyd Shivambu was born on 1 January 1983 in Malamulele, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He studied at Mphambo High School in Malamulele. In 2001, he…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa . Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 2002 … Elite Transition. From Apartheid to…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… to new questions. Evidence of human settlement in Southern Africa Archaeological evidence shows that Southern Africa has one of the longest records of human…
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A documentary history, Volume two … policy of segregation. It is necessary the people of South Africa should be made to…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… of the Community’s Mission in Sophiatown , South Africa. 1949 Appointed Provincial of the Community in South Africa and Superintendent of St Peter’s School…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… Mission and the ANCWL. Those who remained in South Africa, however, were hamstrung because their FSAW structures … breaking her banning order. Soon…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. 1961 Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in the … on July 22, 1986, called proposed…