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Secret Ballot
… this narrative follows the rallies of the first week after all the results from all the votes are counted. It is at these gatherings where we …
PlaceOprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls, Meyerton, Johannesburg
… 7. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls - South Africa, admits students of any race, colour, national and ethnic origin to all the rights,…
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the workers of the factory where I was employed. I brought all the workers' complaints before the manager, who rather … regularly cleaned and washed and in…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… Het Gesticht, the fourth oldest church building in South Africa and erected in 1813 by the inhabitants of Paarl as a … into the category on par with Free…
PlaceTunisia
… in 647 CE. Although the Arabs initially unified North Africa, by 1230 a separate Tunisian dynasty had been … Empire, whose control of the region, always…
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… of people on colour and race ”” it is completely alien to all religious creeds. Furthermore, as an integral part of … rights and recognition as full-blooded…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
… us contextualise the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa in the 1970s. Also, it is impossible to understand what happened in South Africa (the …
ArticleProvincial histories
… topic we will look at the heritage and identity of South Africa’s different provinces, including each one’s government … can participate in a democracy will…
National Orders Recipients
… South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion … of the human spirit have become characteristics of South Africa. One of the symbolic…
PlaceChintsa
… Wild Coast region of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is situated 38 km north-east from East London , at … Chintsa in the Eastern Cape is…
PlaceNtabankulu Municipality
… is located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, is situated in a region with a complex and … with European powers. The British, Dutch, and Germans…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… 8, determined that the local municipalities had to supply all Non-Whites over the age of 16, who were residents of a … was payable per month. The letter had…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
… Colchester '. Named after; Nelson Mandela , who is South Africa's iconic humanitarian and freedom fighter. This Area … to look up at the largest South…
EventThe inquest into the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Bantu Biko, opens in Pretoria
… conspiracy to conceal the real cause of Biko’s death, with all the witnesses and all court officials playing a part. The officials stood by … and martyr of…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… even though he had dreams of studying law. “I applied at all the universities and got accepted but I chose Wits … of the apartheid system and he hated it. “I…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Legislatures and Governance, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… by the executive as well as the legislature to consult all relevant role players, including the judiciary. … Court should be the highest (apex) court for all…
PlaceTable Mountain Water Supply
… from North of Cape Town down the Cape Peninsula to Africa’s southwestern extremity, the Cape of Good Hope . … The 6th August 1663 found the Commander…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… his massive, 1 metre, 91 cm (6 ft. 4 in.) muscular body all through the night, keeping the wild animals at bay, with … was a newly dug grain pit. They…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… there was no one to enforce the Act and secondly, like all South African labour legislation, it was drafted so … contact the union; but quite a large number…
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
… of the 1972 inquest was the first of its kind in South Africa and the current inquest was constrained because around … a beginning to uncovering (the truth…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… Massacre added to the bleak political situation in South Africa. The massacre took place on 7 September 1992 in Bisho, … Klerk on the grounds that Ciskei did…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… factory gates and at taxi ranks. 400 workers attend, and all sign an objection to the Wage Board's latest ruling on … Cheadle, Paula Ensor, David Hemson and…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… It remained Dutch in character, despite employing men from all over Europe. The colony grew slowly during the first 50 … Initially education was limited to…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… strike for fellow meat workers and called for boycott of all red meat. The boycott encompassed meats such as polonies, … On 16 July 1980, the 'Committee of…
ArticleThe impact of Lenin and Stalin’s policies on the rights of the Russian people
… the rule of the Tsar and Lenin. It was Stalin's aim to see all farms nationalised, with the state becoming the sole … of new schools were built to provide…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… were demanding authentic democracy and equal rights for all. Analysts have seen the ‘reform’ process as a move from … back to the NEC. Very heated debates…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… the Voortrekkers. This opened up the interior of South Africa to further colonial conquest. Conquest and land … systematic land dispossession and segregating…
Covert operations
… destabilisation, that is, the destabilisation of South Africa's neighbours. In this chapter we explore the depths of … information, making decisions and…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South Africa. Many groups rallied against the Afrikaner government … Harvard College. At the time,…
69. ‘Moderate Indians’ form the Natal Indian Organisation
… Congressional leaders. They disagreed with the latter's 'all or nothing' policy, as they called it, and decided to … Natal Indian Congress if they still…