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ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… means that it has been approved by the President of South Africa. A new coat of arms, replaces one that has served South Africa since 17 September 1910. The…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… of governance for traditional rural communities in South Africa. The institution of traditional leadership was the … and objectives, the colonial government…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… visit www.pbs.org The apartheid government in South Africa came to an end in 1994, but the new government in South Africa had to work through the question of…
Sparks Mahamba
Sparks Mahamba was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Mahamba was killed in the Third Battle of the Wankie Campaign in…
BiographyMbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa
Mbuyiselo Stanley Vanqa was born in 1923. Inspired to join the African National Congress by the Defiance Campaign. Took an active part in subsequent Congress…
BiographyJulius Phumelele Busa
Born in 1927 Busa was a trade unionist. He played an important part in organising textile workers in Worcester, and was an African National Congress (ANC)…
BiographyMartha Mohlakoane
Mohlakoane was born in 1906 to a family of farm squatters. She worked in domestic service for 22 years. Mohlakoane joined the African National Congress in 1939…
ArticleAfrapix
… school of documentary photography in apartheid South Africa. The formation of Afrapix coincided with the increase … policy and joint projects. Afrapix’s…
BiographyLebo Mathosa
Lebo Mathosa was born in Daveyton in the East Rand. She began singing at the age of seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved to Johannesburg…
BiographyAmina Desai
… South Africa’s longest serving female Indian political prisoner …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… and trading segregation for Indians throughout South Africa. The Natives (Urban Areas) Act No 21 of 1923 The … Luli Callinicos Property Rights and Rent…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… 1930 Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their…
BiographySiphiwo Maxwell “Congress” Mthimkhulu
… Philips D, South Africa The Truth & Reconciliation Commission (part 3) from …
BiographyThambi Naransamy Naidoo
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 ”“ 1964 . …
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… One of South Africa’s deadliest terror attacks took place in Church … in a range of various systematic bombings [v] across South Africa during the years…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th … of the colonial and later racial capitalism in South Africa. Passes were used to…
ArticleBolt (1970-1975)
… DISA Archive Copyright: Digital Innovation South Africa …
Thupelo (1985)
… on a similar approach of the artists run workshop. South Africa had gone into a state of emergency and facilities and … current the socio-political climate…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major political … to ‘draw up a Freedom Charter for the…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… s 15 of the Representation between the Republic of South Africa and self-governing Territories Act No 46 of 1959. The … to a total of 13, six per cent of the…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… Race in general and the so-called racial question in South Africa. Finally, I hope to outline briefly our ultimate … We are being wooed internationally at a…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… Race in general and the so-called racial question in South Africa. Finally, I hope to outline briefly our ultimate … We are being wooed internationally at a…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… the Progressive Party saw their ideals realized in South Africa's interim Constitution. In the 1961 election, only … the process of negotiating a peaceful…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… by great strife among the black communities in Southern Africa. This turmoil also changed the patterns of settlement … of the Pretoria area The legislative…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… in areas other than those set aside for them. The South Africa Act, 1909 (Sections 26, 35, 44, 147 and 151) leaves … Act. The Immigrants Regulation Act of…
BiographyMarthinus Wessel Pretorius
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was born in September 17, 1819, near Graaff-Reinet in the then Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… extended to the disenfranchised population groups in South Africa, before they are expected to support and participate … , described as ‘the premier union…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 … This year, 2014, marks 20 years of democracy in South Africa, coinciding with the fifth…
BiographyJansie Lourens
After Barbara Hogan, Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials. Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus, were found…
BiographyFrank A. Pendla
Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until suspended by A. B. Xuma in September 1942. Born in the Cape, he…