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Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… from the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott, an Irish land agent so treated in 1880 in an attempt to get rents …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… were hired as cheap labour for settler farms. Many rented land from white farmers in return either for cash, labour … generally referred to as sharecroppers…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid
… du Toit, Pretoria's first Magistrate. He then sold the land to Stephanus Jacobus Meintjies, after whom the hill is …
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid.
… du Toit, Pretoria's first Magistrate. He then sold the land to Stephanus Jacobus Meintjies, after whom the hill is …
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
South Africa’s Maritime History The Suez Canal allows for ships from Europe to travel to the East with ease. Before the canal was opened European ships had…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
Starting with major scientific breakthroughs during the 1930’s, countries have developed weapons that are based on nuclear energy. The use of nuclear weapons…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976,…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Background - "The Road to Reconciliation." South Africa experienced numerous human rights challenges during the apartheid era. The White-dominated government…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
● Federation of South African Women The Defiance Campaign of 1952 would catapult the ANC Women’s League into a new era of action and multi-party interaction…
Pottery, division of labour, trade, medicine and healing, hunting
Pottery Pottery production was also a very important feature of Iron Age society. The Iron Age women were skilled potters. Pots were used for cooking and…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project
Students in African Cultures with Dr Karen Haire, at Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, have just completed an engaging 2-month long pilot project with South…
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 Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
Awards Archbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid,…
Bonani Africa 2010 Photographic Festival Conference: Papers and Abstracts
Beyond the Racial Lens By SAHO and the conference organisers In Defence of Social Documentary Photography by Jon Soske The Bonani Africa Conference…
ArticleIndian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIU
By the time Harriet became General Secretary for the GWIU, Indian women started to enter the industry in significant numbers from 1960 while the number of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… parties’ positions on nationalisation and privatisation of land and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Black Economic … The ANC resolved to change the…
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… At the age of twenty he owned his own News paper Land en Volk meaning Land and (the Afrikaner) people. Marais later went to London …
ArticleSocialism
… policies included the nationalisation of key industries, land redistribution, and the creation a comprehensive social … including nationalising key…
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
Communist Party Calls Mass Demonstration to Commemorate", South African Worker, 27 February 1937 The traditions of the labour movement in South Africa young…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… in History . London, Phoenix, 1996. Delius, Peter. The Land Belongs to Us . Johannesburg, Ravan, 1983. Etherington, …
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… with extensive petroleum reserves, rich agricultural land and valuable mineral resources. Few countries in the … most of the country is still in chaos…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… Roman-Dutch law as the basic, or common, law of the land (Cape Articles of Capitulation, 1806). Although the … to: the selection or demotion of traditional…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… majority of people in South Africa were dependent on the land for a living. The large industries of diamonds and gold … towns? What were the forces that led…
Helen Bland, wife of SA golfer John Bland, dies.
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
This is a list is part of the The ANC and the turn to the armed struggle: UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown |1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
… looking for pasturelands- for their trekking in search of land and cattle began long before the so-called ”Great Trek” … in Ngika’s “ally” , the British,…