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ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… On 30 March 1960, Philip Kgosana led a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to the police…
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… (Malinke) people against Sosso dominance. According to the oral epic Sundiata , preserved by griots (hereditary … oral historians called jeliw ), Sundiata…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1994 to 1995 In December 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs … removed. 1998 In September 1998, two Senegalese and a Mozambican were thrown from a…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… women as members. In 1918, the government threatened to reintroduce pass laws for women a these had been relaxed after the success of earlier … the Bantu…
Key terms and definitions Grade 12 topic 4
… Key terms definitions Abolished Officially ended or put to stop, especially a system or an institution Advisory councils a body which gives voluntary…
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… university professors and some communists. It became a leading voice in the South African struggle against apartheid, especially in the 1940s. As a result of…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens who have excelled in … from Africa. Mapungubwe hill - forms the background, a sandstone hill on…
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… 8985 BCE The San are believed to have first populated Southern Africa 15 CE Khoikhoi … from the Lynton farm in the Eastern…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… governing party and has been in power since the transition to democracy in April 1994. The organisation was initially … of white minority rule galvanized the…
Maps through time, Polokwane
… Polokwane Today If you would like to see Polokwane map today go to http://g.co/maps/ahpma Browse historical to recent time’s maps, learn about the past, and…
ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
… A decade by decade events account of the women's struggle in South Africa. 1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time
… namely; land, water and air. It looks at the earliest to the most modern forms of transport. The focus in the … destinations and has made transporting of…
Maps through time, Durban
… Durban Today If you would like to see Durban map today go to http://g.co/maps/z2em5 Browse historical to recent time’s maps, learn about the past, and what…
ArticleImpact of World War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after 1945
… grade 11 sections are under construction and still link to old content. Also note, there may be minor changes to the curriculum from year to year, teachers…
Impact of pseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism on the 19th and 20th Centuries
… grade 11 sections are under construction and still link to old content. Also note, there may be minor changes to the curriculum from year to year, teachers…
Ideas of race in the late 19th and 20th centuries
… grade 11 sections are under construction and still link to old content. Also note, there may be minor changes to the curriculum from year to year, teachers…
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… [v] 1984 Exposes brutality in ANC camps. [vi] 1986 Is a member of an ANC delegation that included Oliver Tambo , … These meetings lay the groundwork for…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… the production of plays including Sarafina which went on to play on Broadway. Sarafina , a South African musical produced by Mbongeni Ngema depicted ……
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela … late 80s, we started…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… South African Prime Ministers from the NP (equivalent to the position of President today): Following constitutional … until his resignation in 1989, when he…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the … alongside talks during the year from July 1990 to June 1991. It took the ANC up until…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… 1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish immigrants (from Latvia … Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1939…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… been forgotten or their roles overlooked. Yusuf Dadoo left a formidable political legacy, covering a number of fields spanning the relationship between ……
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… 1775 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought begins in Southern Africa resulting in the … tribes resulting in war and…
Adriaan Oosthuizen
… I am a trained conservationist whose hobby became an occupation for the past 16 years. I work as a commercial photographer but decided to attempt to see more…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… According to the EFF’s publication ‘The Coming Revolution’, Julius … In February 2010, the ANC Youth League had produced a document on the nationalisation of…
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… National Symbols since 1994 In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. National symbols such as a national…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… allies were shaken by, presumably, what looked like a spontaneous strike, which had its beginnings in the complex … labour, forced removals and the denial of…
ArticleHistory of South African National Orders and Awards
… The birth of a new non-racial and non -sexist democracy in South Africa necessitated a critical review of the system of National Orders. The … symbolic…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 4: Medicine through time
… see people as inpiduals but rather sees them as part of a community. People’s sickness is often related to their relationship with other people. People can…