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Nelspruit the Segregated city
… Until the demise of apartheid, Nelspruit remained a small town, a hub for the transport of agricultural goods from the surrounding areas to the larger cities…
ArticleIndigenous medicine and traditional healing
… see people as inpiduals but rather sees them as part of a community. People’s sickness is often related to their relationship with other people. People can…
Doing Oral History
… Edited by Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the … employed by the KwaZulu-Natal Department of…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan … protests, civil disobedience and pass burnings. There was a sense of…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… Abstract Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani was a jazz musician who performed during the apartheid era. He … the Blue Notes, an interracial band that performed for a short…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… musician, an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) fighter, and a top intelligence officer. Key Words Barry Gilder, uMkhonto … only two choices - submit or fight. That time…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… Zarina Maharaj Biography Abstract Zarina Maharaj is a political activist, a daughter, a mother, a wife, a feminist, and much more. … era through her…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… process of further squeezing Black people off the land. A series of draconian legislation designed to uproot people from their land or where they were…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… Following an upsurge of violent and non-violent resistance to the racially-exclusive system of apartheid - which had … - the apartheid government, under PW…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… The Government and the ANC have again committed themselves to the Groote Schuur Minute . 2. The final report of the … otherwise, who committed offences on…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to confine them to the nominally self-governing homelands of … early Xhosa life in the Eastern Cape…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… the 18th century, when slaves in the Cape were forced to carry "permission" documents. The issuing of passes was … Coloured and Indian people, ensuring the…
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… PAHAD D. Phil Thesis, University of Sussex, July 1972 GO TO INTRODUCTION > INTRO | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ABBR. | BIOS | … Settlement Gandhi in South Africa…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… was discovered in the late nineteenth century, there was a general belief that southern Africa was almost destitute, similar wealth that had drawn Europeans…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… History Archives Golden City Post Can Themba was born a Black South African in a country where his race comprised … the inferiority that the White people…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… gaps in critical areas of the township's history that need to be plugged to achieve a fuller account of Sophiatown community experience of the Apartheid…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… 1 September 1983, London We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… revolution in Southern Africa which took place due to the discovery of diamonds and the mining thereof, as well … as the increasing interest of Britain in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… Inquiry into the Death of Clayton Sizwe Sithole Mandate: To investigate the circumstances surrounding the death in … and report on the allegation that one…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… of the Afrikaner Jew - what personifies the Boerejood ? A Boerejood (‘farmer Jew’) or Boerejode (plural) is the term used to identify South African Jews who…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to break away from the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). NUSAS was a liberal…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… Context: The Emergence of a Pan-African Rhetoric The Organisation of African Unity … (OAU), established on 25 May 1963, was the culmination of a number of…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… The African National Congress was created in 1912 and a year later the Bantu Women’s league was created. In 1944, … Many organisations within the country…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collaboration with and resistance to apartheid…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Forced removals refer to the moving of people from their homes against their will. … or other tactics against which the evictees are not in a position to…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… culture within the South African democratic movement as a way of uniting activists and cultural workers to form a coalition of cultural resistance to…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… verandah AMATHURI - Verandah IBADI - Door IBALELO - Used to signify a roof timber spanning from post to post, or from roof beam to roof beam, and could mean…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political action by…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… The word fascism is used to describe any form of dictatorial, right wing, … anti-Communist form of government. Nazi Germany became a fascist country under…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… they might first appear. Perhaps the first and best place to begin addressing these topics is by acknowledging that in a country like South Africa, there is…