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ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… Nelson Mandela. On 20 and 21 December the first session of CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa) was … this event. All parties agreed to support…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… believe that the San people were the descendants of the original Homo sapiens who lived in South Africa for at … AND THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS: Europeans arrived…
BiographyChristopher W. M. Gell
… Gell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1917. One of the most respected White champions of the African cause,After graduating from Cambridge … on racial…
BiographyShirley Gunn
… to her political work, she became involved activities of the trade union movement in the Clothing Workers’ Union. Gunn became part of community organisations…
BiographyDr Ahmed Ismail Limbada
… Transvaal (now Gauteng) where he was a member of the Progressive Forum. In 1951, two of Dundee’s sons, Karrim Essack and Dr Limbada returned from … to a…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… To mark the centenary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' … most of Natal under the newly amended Riotous Assemblies Act. Champion, who…
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
… Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South … weSizwe (MK). He was imprisoned for…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Thedevelopment of an industrialised society in … whole during this period. What was the…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South … in the Cape Province that were allowed an indirect representation in…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… African World Heritage Sites Land dispossession history of South Africa 19th century South Africa South Africa … African Convention (AAC) special session…
Document 28 - Letterfrom E. R. Roux to the Central Executive, Communist Party of South Africa, 25 September 1928
… E. R. Roux to the Central Executive, Communist Party of South Africa, 25 September 1928 … Dutchman or arrested under the Native Administration Act for…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 … a legal framework to deal effectively with any acts of opposition to the state…
BiographyCassim Saloojee
… poor. Saloojee began his school in Sophiatown at the age of 6. He was unhappy in the beginning as his clothes were old … was more important, and pointed to…
BiographyMathews Phosa
… country in 1985, and in 1986 became the regional commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) in…
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
… Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis, the son of Thomas Leipold, a fisherman, and Jemima Davis was born in … a British Crown Dependency in Western Europe. At the…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed soon after the invention of writing, however, the creation of a formal…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Introduction Afrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during … this book as the first secular Afrikaans book). [55] A representation…
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… “Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The … through Acts such as the…
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
… 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and … newspaper, The Guardian. He studied at the…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in English, and he only entered school at the age of 12, when his elder…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
… Your royal Highnesses Distinguished Secretaries General of the OAU and the United Nations Honourable Ministers and … South African life, sometimes in ways…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Racism against Indians
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 … for: 1. The repeal of the Indian Asiatic Land…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Joint Houses of Congress of the Republic Of Argentina
… Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Joint Houses of Congress of the Republic Of Argentina …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… < Menu page < 3. Formation of the NIA | 5. Convulsions in Natal > CHAPTER IV The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War Issue In…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… against apartheid throughout the country. With the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in August 1983, this … Consciousness organisations began to…
Archive“‘Hundreds of Native Workers are Joining the Communist Party in Bloemfontein; … which organisation … ever faced calamities, persecutions and prosecutions as the CP did?’: The Communists in the Free State, 1921-1940” by Peter Limb
… “‘Hundreds of Native Workers are Joining the Communist Party in …
BiographyMary Moodley
… Free State (now Free State). She was the second eldest of 10 children born to Tom Anderson, a miner of Danish descent, and Katherine Anderson, a descendant…
Fenuel Mogatusi
… July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was held was undisclosed but he was reportedly arrested on charges of theft after…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of Madras, in Tamil Nadu…