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ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Before the rise of Nazism, the ministers of the Dutch Reformed churches did not interfere with the trade unions, but from 1934 is the three Dutch Reformed…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1970 - 1978 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… of South Africa: ”¢ Islam and Television ”¢ Photography, Picture-making and Islam ”¢ The Quran …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
Colonial History of Domestic Work Since slaves were used as domestic servants in the settler colony from the middle to late 18th century, domestic…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
QUESTION 1: HOW WAS AFRIKANER NATIONALISM PROMOTED IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE 1930s TO 1940s? Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the questions that…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and rural areas. The insurrection of the 1980s was…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked by the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions…
PlaceOviston Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape
The Oviston Nature Reserve lies is on the, Southern side of the Gariep Dam. The Reserve has an Area of 16 000 Hectares. This Dam, which is the largest Dam in…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… time under the Terrorism Act because of his anti-apartheid photography. Sikhakhane-Rankin went back to her mother’s home …
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society, Dr John Philip, paid a visit to the Eastern Cape. His aim was to…
PlaceWest Coast National Park and Postberg Reserve
Flower season along the West Coast takes place Annually between August and September. As the season changes, nature begins to bloom and flowers of all colours…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
The year of 1985 signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and non-violent…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
Indres Naidoo Born: 26 August 1936 Died: 3 January 2016 Transvaal Indian Congress, Umkhonto we Size, African National Congress, South African Communist…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
The Significance of Indian Opinion by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie Department of History, University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate…
PlaceElandsberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape
Elandsberg is a Mountain and is located in the Swartland District, near Riebeeck Kasteel, in the Western Cape. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… and Helpmekaar High Schools, the Bensusan Museum of Photography, and the former Johannesburg College of …
Business leaders pay tribute to Mandela by staff writer, December 8 2013
COMPANIES and business organisations on Friday reacted to the death on Thursday night of former president Nelson Mandela. Here are some highlights: ”¢ Mandela…
Preface
This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several difficulties of research in relation to decisions regarding…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
In April 1982 Joe Foster, the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), gave the keynote address at the second Fosatu…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
As head of intelligence for the outlawed African National Congress during apartheid, Jacob Zuma neutralized perceived traitors and sidelined opponents to shore…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… Any marked preferences in study, reading and occupation? Photography. 9. Has candidate shown an ambition to excel in …
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The first anniversary of the Soweto shooting, 16 June 1977, was to be commemorated at St Mary's Cathedral in…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
July 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of the South African Communist Party (SACP): one of the first Marxist-Leninist parties on the continent, and among…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… Benjamin Azikwe, dies at age ninety-two "In/sight: African Photography, 1940 to the Present" is held at the Solomon R. …
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Benjamin Azikwe, dies at age ninety-two "In/sight: African Photography, 1940 to the Present" is held at the Solomon R. …
PlaceStikland Cemetery
In a 1947, a letter to the Cape Town Clerk and the secretary of the Board of Trustees to the Cape Peninsula Cemeteries requested the establishment of a new…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
Historical Context to Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki 1932 Epainette Moerane (Ma Mofokeng Clan Name) Meets Govan Mbeki at Taylor Street Secondary School. 1935 …
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South Africa in the mid to late 20th century. During this time…