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The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the … the historical record but few can have…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… November, The farm Strandfontein provisionally granted to Piet Retief. This was but one of the farms acquired by Retief at a time when he planned to…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… 1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir trip…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while … in Durban. During this period Mozambique, which shares a border with South Africa,…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… an international influenza pandemic broke out, that led to the deaths of 50 million people worldwide. The pandemic … simultaneously in Europe, Asia and North…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… societies hunt, fish and gather wild plants to survive. They also move around from place to place, following a nomadic way of life. The invention of the bow…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… 1951. Led by I. B. Tabata , SOYA was closely linked to the Non European Unity Movement (NEUM). Addressing the … critical need to create an organisation that…
ArticleThe Battle - Andries Pretorius and his men advance
… He immediately re-organised the Voortrekkers and started to prepare a retaliatory attack on the Zulu. On Sunday, 9th December, Pretorius and his followers…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were … The organisation grew into an avenue for liberal…
Learning about local history through pictures
… investigating using pictures. Here are our clues: 1. It is a street in Cape Town. 2. It is famous for its flowers. 3. It starts with the letter A. If you…
ArticleTransport on water
… Transport on water Ships and boats are as old as the desire to travel over and across water, and to fish. Boats are … propelled) by rowing with oars or…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost all of the population was Black. This … and made Black residents in ‘White’ areas…
Early civilisations from around the world: Mesopotamia, China, Indus River Valley, the Mesoamerican empires
… Mesopotamia The name Mesopotamia was given to the Middle Eastern civilisation that existed between the … in Iraq, where they unite. Mesopotamia is Greek for …
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… for the town’s ‘Coloured’ population of Stellenbosch. To date no publication exists that focuses solely on the … only houses two yearbooks. In contrast,…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… many as "anti social". Tom Lodge however, suggests that in a sense, gangs in Sophiatown can be likened to Eric Hobsbaum's "social bandits" that were a…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… within the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). There was a general feeling of the need to rejuvenate politics within the Indian community by infusing a…
The Children’s Charter
… that children have special rights which include the right to “special care and assistance”. The United Nations drew up … that children’s rights must be…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… Until the coming of democracy, Nelspruit was a small town that functioned mainly as a hub of transport for agricultural products that were transported to…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… resolutions on African grievances and resolve to constitute the All African Convention (AAC), an organised … December, The All African Convention delegates…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… already living there. Initially British control was aimed to protect the trade route to the East, however, the British … of the south-western Cape,…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The magazine became an important platform for a new generation of writers and photographers who changed the … was taken over by Jim Bailey who, with the…
Glossary: Transport through time
… behind, like pottery and bones. Artificial Made by man, to look like something natural. Atmosphere Gasses that surround a planet like the earth. Canal…
The South African War
… The South African War To this day the reasons for this conflict remain the source … been inevitable before the mining industry could become a more important…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… influential musicians of all time from South Africa due to his role in spreading awareness about his country during … in South Africa. When the struggles of…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… In 1977, a group of "cultural workers"from the townships fled into … the cultural organisation Medu Art Ensemble (Medu is a SePedi word meaning roots). Medu…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… and certain individuals speaks out on the possibility of a political strike. December , A new leadership nurtured in … such as petitions and deputations. The…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… "We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live …
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… Workers Union, whose president was J.B.Marks, he was also a leader in the South African Communist Party. Black workers were introduced to trade unionism by…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… The date, December 16, holds a special significance in South African history. On this day … the Afrikaners as a social group and a ‘race’, which led to the…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… the Novel January 2015 Abstract This essay sets out to explore and analyse the socio-political events that take … David Lurie. Coetzee explores…