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ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… now known as Youth Day, has been remembered, commemorated, and memorialised as public history. There have been different ways and forms through which the…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of South Africa. The idea of a Freedom Charter was born, and the Congress of the People Campaign was initiated. During this campaign the ANC and its allies…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… through legislation, resolutions, proclamations and ordinances played a key role in legitimizing systematic land dispossession and segregating South Africa…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… based on the idea of being Black began to organize and educate the Black people particularly the youth. The … Consciousness Movement (BCM) defiantly rejected…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… community distinguished by different origins, languages, and religious beliefs. The first Indians arrived during the … made up the majority of slaves that…
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… Act , no. 25 of 1999, aimed to introduce an interactive and integrated system to manage and preserve national heritage resources. It also established … the…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… The text that follows is a brief summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You can read far more detail … Perpetrators were put on trial in the…
ArticleThe Battle - Andries Pretorius and his men advance
… in Natal. He immediately re-organised the Voortrekkers and started to prepare a retaliatory attack on the Zulu. On Sunday, 9th December, Pretorius and his…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… had declined to examine the interrogation methods used, and had attributed detention deaths to natural causes, … circumstances of his death were said to be…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… demanded that all such schools register with the state, and removed control of African education from the churches and provincial authorities. This control…
BiographyA. B. Nogoya
… Born 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 … Member of the African National…
Speeches and Public Statements: Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… A collection of speeches and public statements that relate to the Rivonia Trial. These are text files and transcriptions from various sources, some were…
Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa Activity
… Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa 1. What is herding? 2. … did the Khoikhoi move often? 15. Why did the Khoikhoi and San make war? 16…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… Inanda district, KwaZulu Natal . Indians, Coloured, Whites and Africans lived here in harmony although they had no tarred roads, public water supply and no…
Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction)
… Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction) …
Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction)
… Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction) …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… Soviet Union, where Anti-Semitism led to discrimination and persecution of the Jews at the start of the nineteenth … young age as she could relate to the…
BiographyRexon ‘Scotch’ Mathebula
… Mathebula left Sophiatown when he was seven years old and went to live with an aunt at Letaba, Tzaneen in the … nine years in the Duiwelskloof area engaged…
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
… Tozama Matshikiza was the son of Samuel Bokwe Matshikiza and Grace Ngqoyi Matshikiza. They were a family of renowned musicians; his mother was a noted…
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
… she climbed the educational ladder to become a teacher and eventually an education official in the new democratic … in prison, following allegations of…
BiographyPaul Grendon
… to everyone.” Paul Grendon was a prolific photographer and artist that used his art as a medium to shed light on the … struggles of the time. His work will…
BiographyJoshua Makue
… Born in 1909 Makue was a teacher and tailor. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union after being refused enrolment … He joined the 1946 Indian…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consist in: it teaches them not to think of their own employers…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… my concerns are with SANSCO's mobilisation of students and its collective actions, and especially the form and content of mobilisation and … days such as…
BiographyDaniel (Sampie) Malope
… a house painter. He joined the ANC Youth League in 1944 and was arrested in 1946 for assisting in the African mine … linguist, speaking Sotho, Xhosa, English…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Charley-Ann Pearson Politics and…
BiographyJohn Mtini
… 1931-2, the formation of a Railway Workers' Union in 1936 and many subsequent campaigns. He was a veteran African Congressman, and he was over seventy years…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 December in 1950 to Amina and Ismail Mahomed.Mahomed grew up in Jeppe, attending Gold Street Primary School and then William…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged … in the Cape at that time. He was born in…
BiographyLydia Kompe
… taken away. As a result Kompe had to drop out of school and leave her family and move to Johannesburg to work. Kompe’s first job in Johannesburg was as a…