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ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… The UDF was an umbrella organization that was founded to unify the hundreds of Anti-Apartheid movements occurring … and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… than one hundred years later. The formation of MK followed a series of events that made it necessary for the national liberation movements in South Africa to…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… Company (VOC) comes into being. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), establishes a station at the Cape of Good Hope…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view … Africa during the 1960s and beyond, both sections…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change appeared to be impossible, this dyer situation spawned a movement which forced…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… left the shores of that country in 1914, Nana Sita holds a special place. Nanabhai, as he was affectionately known, … had become convinced that underground…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… for the next 28 years. 1969 Tshabalala-Msimang receives a medical degree from the First Leningrad Medical Institute. She learns to speak fluent Russian…
ArticleThe Transkei
… was happening in Pondoland. But soon it became clear that a minor war was in progress. Emergency Proclamation 400 was gazetted in 1960 and according to the…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… and San peoples. The Dutch farmers moved further north to colonise more land to cultivate in order to meet the … Life at the Cape changed, but productivity…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… the early days of the Free State, citizenship was limited to the White population only. This became part of the … were denied the right to direct…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to break up a demonstration. Photograph by Shadrack Nkomo © Bailey's … and bombed their homes. The…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… (1925 - 1934), but it was largely managed by entering into a coalition with the Labour Party first and later the Unionist Party and South Africa Party. As a…
ArticleSouth African Film
… length. They are generally the most expensive kind of film to make, the most demanding, and the most prestigious. … for television. It takes hundreds of…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts Abstract: Miriam Makeba is a Grammy award-winning singer. She is from Johannesburg and dedicated her life to fighting for…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Photograph of a Khoisan lady. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 The … of the Portuguese Royal House and merchants eager to find a sea-route to India…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… separate and oppressive, these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially … (Thompson, 1990). Millions were…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… George Hallett—More than Mandela Abstract George Hallett, a South African photographer is an artist who spent several … and injustices of the apartheid state…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the white population of the country. A … who provided…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… circles for its unrepresentative character. Relative to the earlier period's infiltration of Umkhonto we Sizwe … and bombed their homes. The Pretoria attack…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… or the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) in 1652 as a refreshment outpost. The outpost was intended to supply VOC ships on their way to Asia with…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… Politics Abstract Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile has played a major and vital role in the history of South African … the impact that women have had in politics, in…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… the first case of AIDS in South Africa was reported in a homosexual man who contracted the virus while in … taken from homosexual men living in Johannesburg,…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 7. Events leading up to Passive Resistance In February 1945, the third Broome Commission resumed its work. A. I. Kajee and…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of Johannesburg.” This Act was specifically instituted to displace Africans from Sophiatown, a largely African township of Johannesburg, which had become a…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… workers, their children, and their wives in addition to community health and poverty. These negative results only … dop system of primarily male farm…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… : Poet, African National Congress Chief Representative to Sweden and United States of America, South African Ambassador to Germany Abstract Lindiwe Mabuza is…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… leaves Trichardt while Potgieter goes on an expedition to the Lowveld. 1845 Andries Hendrik Potgieter leads the … White settlement in the Eastern Transvaal…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… the advent of the Mfecane The origins of the battle are a matter of considerable debate. The background to this event can be found in two concurrent…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the … the Congress of the People “as of…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… 15 May, The proclamation of the settlement of Durban into a Borough. The European population stands at 1,204. 1858 The … arrive at the South Beach of Port…