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Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… War II broke out. In South Africa, people were divided as to whether or not they should join the war, and if so, on … side they should fight. Although South…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… People can be great sources of information. By speaking to people we can learn about the past. Learners are also sources of historical information. A…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… rock artists painted people and animals. It is difficult to say why they painted these pictures. Some archaeologists … that the paintings were created to…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… Black university students had tried for many years to make progress through the multiracial and liberal National … politics, Blacks still did not play as…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.” [i] Due to the racial oppression he saw in South Africa, Nortje fled … he could never return to the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… and the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) jointly organised a 'Defend Free Speech Convention', attracting 10 000 people to Market Square. The meeting proposed…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… the notion that Black people need western values be to accepted as citizens. Du Bois calls for Black … France and is headed by William Edward Durghardt Du…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… The name of Dr William Fehr should be familiar to many of those who have visited Castle Good Hope in Cape … porcelain and vivid pictures. Others may remember…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a national and international scale…
Defining Black Consciousness
… is in essence the realization by the Black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their … oppression - the blackness of…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light. For years it has been the subject of fierce debate and the cause of countless arguments. A…
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… 1996 when communities on the Cape Flats, Cape Town decided to form an anti-crime organisation. The aim was to fight the drugs and violence plaguing their…
Robben Island
… Unesco declared Robben Island in the Western Cape a World Heritage Site in 1999. Robben Island is located in … above sea level. Robben Island has been used…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the urbanisation of … in Johannesburg, the Minister of the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… pre-Union colonies and excludes immigration of all persons to the Union considered unsuitable on economic grounds or on … day of arrival of the Prince of…
ArticlePoqo
… Poqo was formed as an armed wing to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) during the 1960's and … the South African government in order to replace it with a…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… The outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Cape Town appears to have given a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of preventative and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… constraints. During this period, the party attempted to reinvigorate itself by changing its name from the SANNC to the ANC, adopting a national anthem and a…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… an extension of that programme, the curators' desire to elevate the art of Thami Mnyele has been so crudely … collective he was allied to, the Medu Art…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… With the ANC now legal, mass demands were made for a constitutional assembly to create a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary South … main demands. 1991…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… garage She spent one year at Wits University and became a member of the Progressive Forum a Trotskyite group which was affiliated to the NEUM. 1944 Raised …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… Sharpeville Massacre , in 1960, signalled the beginning of a far more brutal and intensive phase of state repression … that would crush internal resistance…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… journalists, (Adrienne Sichel and Marilyn Jenkins) with a passionate interest in contemporary choreography and dance, … in Johannesburg. The focus of the…
ArticleNdebele
… that just under 600 000 South Africans speak isiNdebele as a home language. Similar to the country's other African languages; isiNdebele is a tonal language,…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day. This day is a commemoration of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and how far … under the Bill of Rights. The Bill of…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… 1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC … student organizations, churches, sports and other…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… took 20 kilograms of Jack's mixture" , recalls Kasrils, "to make four bombs ”¦We neatly wrapped each bomb in Christmas … in defence of our rights, our people…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… late 1970s, and moved forward when Allan Boesak called for a 'united front' of 'churches, civic associations, trade unions, student organisations, and sports…
ArticleThe New Group
… This was a group or collective of young South African artists who, upon their return from study in Europe in 1937 began to question and oppose the…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… the beginning of the settlement at the Nile river through to the uniting of Upper and Lower Egypt under one Pharaoh. We … and other natural aspects. The Nile…