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ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… In an attempt to restore artistic exchange and dialogue after the Cultural … organised under the primary curatorship of Lorna Ferguson, a previous director…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… for the discovery of the main gold reef must be attributed to George Harrison, whose findings on the farm Langlaagte … of what became the settlement's…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… of Emergency's continued bannings and repression only led to reveal the fact that the apartheid state was weak. The … allowing some contact with blacks…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… purchases land from the Johannesburg Municipality to develop as a residential area. 1912 Sophiatown has the first of its … Africans as residents. Coloureds…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… It was subsequently also schizophrenic in its approach to reforms, abolishing laws that made life for Black, … degraded, which created contempt for the law,…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… consolidates white rule over the territories that came to be known as South Africa. The Union is founded on racial … and disenfranchisement of black people…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and re-engineer Pondoland and to co-opt their … central government. The Bantu Authorities…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… The biographical essays are selected from students in a South African history survey course that sought to put Africans back at the center of their history…
What are the challenges that face the South African film industry?
… use foreign models that militate against our very efforts to shape our ailing film industry. We have not come to a point where we can produce indigenous…
ArticleSouthern African Development Community (SADC)
… of the region. Before 1992, the aim of SADCC was to forge close economic co-operation with Southern African … , Tanzania , Zambia , and Zimbabwe . South…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… (later known as FASA) is formed. 1895 SAFA affiliates to the English Football Association 1896 Indian football … Association (SAIFA) is founded in Kimberley,…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… 1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened to…
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… The Market Photo workshop is a division of the Market Theatre Foundation. Founded by … David Goldblatt in 1989, it was originally created as a space to…
Learning about history through writing
… We are going to investigate an event using written SOURCES. Can you try to … we are going to look at? Here are the clues: 1. It was a sport event. 2. It…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on something that people don’t want to look at. [1] Tambo’s…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… way amid high security at the Pretoria High Court, with a group of alleged white supremacists accused of trying to overthrow the African National Congress …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting … Finally, this section will show how Germany became a Fascist state, through…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… merchantman, the Amersfoort , arrived in Table Bay with a valuable cargo of 174 slaves. Henceforth, the Cape entered … however took on a completely unique…
ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
… Courts Union (ICU) movement in Somalia . The ICU began as a loose grouping of Sharia Courts that by 2006 had grown into a powerful Islamic militia which…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… schools that admitted exclusively white pupils qualified to receive larger grants, and the following year the … discontent on the part of Coloured people on…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… in the 1990s and was not well. In 1974 Sheila gave birth to Mark, who she loved dearly and who grew up in an … provide an environment of warmth, love and…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… an event of major political significance. In his message to the Congress of the People, Chief Albert Luthuli , the … irrespective of race, colour and creed,…
The State of Art in South Africa Conference
… the ethical responsibilities of the artist with regard to the Apartheid State , calling for recognition of state … as necessarily political, and that…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… on the scene (see SAIC section). Dr. Dadoo was elected to the parties’ leadership in 1946. By the mid-60s the … and under pressure from progressives within…
ArticleBalfour Declaration
… (with support from Canada, Ireland and India) decided to form a committee to discuss and clarify the status of dominions. … ruled their own internal and…
ArticleIndian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIU
… General Secretary for the GWIU, Indian women started to enter the industry in significant numbers from 1960 while … and improve contact with workers. The…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… that year. However, the history of the DP goes back to 1959 when a number of liberal members of the United Party (UP) broke … The cause of the split was the…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The … KiKongo speaking people, and the spelling of Congo with a C comes from…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… 1976 According to the government-appointed Cillie Commission of Enquiry 575 … were located in all four provinces and the homelands. A police witness said to…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… Introduction Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993. It took its name and…