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ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… graduates from Johannesburg Indian High School and moves to Pakistan to continue his education. 1963 After completing a two year science course in Lahore,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… In the 1940s the ANC rejuvenated itself and began to work more closely with the SACP, putting behind the … ANC at the end of the decade were largely…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… by forcing the majority of Black South Africans to live in reserves and making it illegal for them to work as … In the early 1920s, the government of Jan…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Slavery was introduced to the Cape Colony by the VOC in its desire to boost the … of arable farming in the western districts, played a significant role in…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… In the late 1970s four young men publicly refused to obey their army call-ups by the South African Defence … had been increased from one to two years,…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… Mine Workers strike. 1948 Rise of the Nationalist Party to state power. 1950 Introduction of the Suppression of … workers union is banned for two years for…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… administrator of the two former Boer Republics, imposes a number of administrative acts that reintroduces the … old Afrikaner Republics and harsh new…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… in the 15th century, BaFokeng dominated the landscape. A few other Sotho-Tswana people, most notably BaKwena, also … and so, the land appeared empty when…
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
… they were backed by Britain who could provide them with a well-organised and well-equipped army. It was the presence … closing of this frontier: they paved…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… Abstract Miriam Makeba was a South African singer, daughter, mother, and an … was exiled from South Africa in 1960, she used her success to shine a light on…
Luli
… money into the country. Gold mining on the Rand created a revolution in mining methods, and changed South Africa in a very significant way. This section…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… Great Zimbabwe When Mapungubwe was abandoned, it was to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and … the royal family lived on the hill. The…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… the example of Patrice Lumumba of the Congo who, he told a meeting of the Queensburgh Indian Ratepayers Association 'was killed because he refused to sell…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… It challenges constructivist research and its tendency to be satisfied with simply identifying ethnicity as a social construct. While this interpretation is…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… Africa following the end of the Second World War was a crucial factor in achieving independence for many African … important role in assisting these…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… Africa following the end of the Second World War was a crucial factor in achieving independence for many African … important role in assisting these…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… come about only through the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral homes in Africa The majority of the … to varying degrees by the teachings of…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be visited increasingly by researchers, including Barrie … students from the University of…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 6) A Spiral of Trials In the arrests, indictments and trials that occurred from the 1940s to the 1990s,…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… Events that triggered the uprising can be traced back to policies of the Apartheid government that resulted in the … of Afrikaans alongside English was made…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… colony into the interior. When slaves did however attempt to organise and execute resistance on a group level, it was on many occasions short-lived and ……
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… industrial unions and non-racial industrial unions merged to form one trade union called South African Trades and … adopted the Workers Charter. This Charter…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… all these centuries... They asked if they would be allowed to do such a thing supposing they went to Holland, and they added: 'It … at the so-called peace…
ArticleSS Mendi
… in South Africa. During the First World War , there was a shortage of labourers, which despite the draft, caused delays in moving supplies from the rear to…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. … the mechanism and technicalities of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… released and many others who were in exile were allowed to return to South Africa. Several meetings between the … and the ANC laid the basis for the…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… which takes place on 2 January, and is also referred to as Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year). During the festival … the crowd through singing, dancing and…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, … the most profound moment in the trial, Nelson Mandela made a speech in the…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… Daughter Abstract: The Black Consciousness Movement rose to prominence in South Africa in the 1970s and forms one of … focuses in Burger’s Daughter. The…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… policies that subjected Black people young and old to indignity and inferior status. From the early twentieth … Youth League in 1945, Youth politics took…