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ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… around 20 000 demonstrators gather outside the legislature to hear the ANC’s demands. 18 February 1992: In Working Group … Codesa prescribing the status of…
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… " We are in danger of losing our history" A recent report on history and archaeology in schools offers … compelling reasons for the teaching of these…
ArticleRemembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists
… portrayed within the media. Within South Africa, there is a thriving cartoonist community who take it upon themselves to immortalise our struggle leaders…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… left by SASO? The Azanian Students Organisation (AZASO): A summary Following the banning of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) a new student’s…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can tell us a lot about how people lived, what they thought and how they … not write down their history…
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… The National Heritage Resources Act , no. 25 of 1999, aimed to introduce an interactive and integrated system to manage … (SAHRA) and Council. The…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… escarpment of the Transvaal. Long before it acquired a European name, the region was home to Nguni- and Sotho-speaking farming communities, among them ……
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… World Cup. Nelson Mandela wept tears of joy: “I feel like a young man of 15,” he told the audience in Zurich. In South … British ideas about race, class,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… the volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives … 22 November, Paul Kruger reaches…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… that organised mostly Black employees that aimed to be a national, non-racial umbrella organisation that could … 1979 In the Western Cape the Fattis Monis…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… used as combatants by the British, especially as scouts to track down Boer commandoes and armed block house guards, … and captured civilians were forced into…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… 14 October 1639 : Simon van der Stel is born to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens aboard le Cappel on route to Mauritius. 25 May 1646 : His…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
… Heritage Heritage is a deceptively simple idea. It can be considered to be made up of the practices and traditions that are passed … people have been raised…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late … was voted on to the TUCSA executive. By the 1970s she was a…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… by present generations that the Society was the first to nurture a sense of community among our practising artists across … lies in the fact that it has…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… Floyd Shivambu. The organisation describes itself as a radical and militant movement for economic emancipation, … results when the people’s rights and…
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… KwaMsiza is a village of 49 families located some 50km north of Pretoria. Its residents are Ndzundza Ndebele , and belong to three major family groups: the…
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… the Republic of South Africa. Public submission amounted to a staggering number of 1,753,424 were made to the … for apartheid. On 21 March 1960 police opened…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… placed in Moscow's Red Square. His supporters, attempting to develop a personality cult, gave exaggerated accounts of his … This is because the Soviets'…
The Court’s position in the justice system
… matters. So its jurisdiction - the scope of its authority to hear cases - is restricted to constitutional matters and … It can hear and decide an appeal…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… while using women as political patronage in the giving of a bride ( Setima Mello - the Snuffer of Fires) to a subordinate chief always a Pedi of the…
ArticleActivity: Human evolution
… Learning Outcomes: Uses information from sources to present well-thought out answers to questions. … arguments based on evidence from the sources in a debate…
Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO)
… Cultural Organisations (FOSACO) was initiated in 1990 at a consultative conference held in Johannesburg. The aim of FOSACO was to establish a representative…
Grade 10 Archive
… and results of the slave trade have been debated for a long time. The European slave trade stands out as the most … : The powerful Ottoman Empire blocked…
Karen Nieuwoudt
… I grew up in Johannesburg in an Afrikaans family. I went to the University Of Pretoria where I obtained a BA Degree. After my studies I was employed by the …
Cedric Nunn
… 'I am committed through my photographs, to contributing to societal change that will leave a positive legacy for the children of Africa'. Born in 1957 … and…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… On 20 July 1985 the government declared a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts in the … State of Emergency since 1960, and gave the police powers…
ArticleMapungubwe
… Zimbabwe and Botswana, 75 km from Messina. It sits close to the point where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet. One … in the African sub-continent. The…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National … and other restrictive laws. On 26 March…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… Ahmed was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Currently a freshman at Southern Methodist University, She is majoring … history and biology on the Pre-Med Track…