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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyHeinrich Egersdorfer
Heinrich Egersdorfer was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1853. He trained in lithography in Germany, he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the…
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He attended school at Welsh…
BiographyIsaac Bokala
… Naidoo, P. (2006) 156 Hands that built South Africa. Published by the author. p. 40-42 …
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
… Sechaba, Comrades Against Apartheid p. 39|History of South Africa: Segregation Gail M. Gerhart, Teresa Barnes, Antony …
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… to today, when she continues to promote equality in South Africa. She does this through both as a teacher and a member … 1955 a group of six White women…
BiographyElize Botha
Elizabeth Botha (née Lindes) was born on 19 November 1930 and grew up in Krugersdorp, West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She enrolled at the University of…