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ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… African Unity (OAU) , founded in 1963, was established as a loose association of African states with limited mechanisms … peace and security, it experienced…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… 1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. … student dissatisfaction with boarding house food and a very low SRC poll…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… union broke away from the SATLC because they were opposed to its socialist ideologies. The largely racially mixed … therefore automatically excluded from…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… British annexation of the Transvaal. The Boer opposition to British rule in the Transvaal. Henry Herbert, the 4th Earl … expand the British Empire. Lord…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… witnessed thousands of students leaving South Africa to join liberation organisations (primarily the ANC and the … this time, the older liberation…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… Nationalist Government . The Bill was implemented in order to remove voting rights of Coloured South Africans. The … Black Sash as an organization was…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… Introduction The Tricameral Parliament , a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary…
ArticleWomens Rights
… years. Black women were obviously doubly disadvantaged as a result of their race and their gender. The law, in various forms, has had a significant role in…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… Background What is today referred to as the “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival celebrated in honour of the Greek god Zeus … 14). At the end of…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter … National Congress (1952-1967) and the first…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels, ……
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… International feminism was a catalyst for South African feminist organisation to address violence against women. In 1975, Anne Mayne, a survivor of both…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… 1994 and the African National Congress (ANC) won with a majority vote to head the government of national unity. In order to rebuild … and Development…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… you have tampered with the women, You have struck a rock.' So runs the song composed to mark this historic occasion. By the middle of 1956 plans … The ANC…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to the crisis: * A global economic crisis: In the 1980s there was a global economic crisis. As a…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… Hendrik Potgieter was one of the first Voortrekkers to settle in the Rustenburg area. David Livingstone, the … in Lydenburg, returned to Rustenburg when…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… partnership project Abstract: Ruth Heloise First was a journalist and book writer which assisted with her … of her own campaigns in exposing the apartheid…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… The colonisation of Africa was part of a global European process reaching all the continents of the … Leopold II of Belgium when he involved European powers…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… April, Abram (Bram) Fischer is born in Orange Free State to an auspicious family that includes Abraham Fischer, Brams … excels both in academics (one of only…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with … bread line. Black workers' wages Black families often had to supplement…
ArticleThe Constitution
… and the rule of law. 4. Universal adult suffrage, a national common voters roll, regular elections and a multi-party system of democratic government, to…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… 1985, at the height of the struggle against apartheid. As a federation, it brought together many of the unions formed … history of South Africa, Black trade…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… Domestic Worker during Apartheid Nobengazi Mary Kota is a South African domestic worker for a wealthy family in Cape Town; when asked in 2004 about the ……
Why protect rights of gays and lesbians?
… South Africa's Constitution is the first in the world to prohibit unfair discrimination on the grounds of sexual … 10 years ago sex between two people of the…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… group settled near salt pans in the Zoutpansberg for a year before moving to Delagoa Bay. Andries Hendrik Potgieter set up the first … some distance from…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… years. Black women were obviously doubly disadvantaged as a result of their race and their gender. The law, in various forms, has had a significant role in…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… murder, among others. Despite an international campaign to save their lives, the apartheid government went ahead with … murder and death in detention – often…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… The Afrikaner ideal of a republic South Africa only became a Republic on the 31st … left the Cape on the Great Trek, their ideal was to create an Afrikaner…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… representing the exclusive interests of whites sits to negotiate South Africa's first constitution. 1909 19 … concept of black majority rule with their…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… According to a study, titled Sleeping giant is stirring: Farmworkers in … On average, the minimum wage for the sector was R69 a day in 2012, however many…