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The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… political mobilisation was closely linked to its labour history. In order to understand how Port Elizabeth developed … into a politicised area, one has to…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Provincial Council. Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman. Source: New History of South Africa Cape Town) p231 In 1930, after a … is considered “one of the great…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… emerged. Also see: National Senior Certificate Grd 12, History Paper 1, November 2014 and National Senior Certificate Grd 12, History Paper 2, November 2014 …
Claremont Histories
… exhibition stand in conjunction with South African History Online at the 2015 Harfield Village Carnival. … memories and stories from a lost community…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… During her infant years her father, Columbus, was a local history teacher. In later years he was the minister of the … remains an enigmatic figure in South…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… Helen, Women, Gender and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the British Cape Colony and its Frontier Zones c. 1806-1870 , Journal of African History,…
PlaceMuseum Africa
… Museum Africa, Johannesburg's major history and cultural history museum, is housed in the Newtown Cultural Precinct's … civilisations thrived. It is not a…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… now called South Africa. Although the sources of African history became relatively more abundant in the nineteenth century, its history has been the subject…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… Within the official Trades and Labour Council (from which TUCSA was later to emerge), black workers were tolerated as …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… further below. South Africa has experienced a long history of forcible removal of people as the result of racist … legislation dating back to 1856, view…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… W. C. Holden was one of the early writers on South African history to publish a book that used the theory of empty land … of the idea of the 'vacant land'…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… efforts of our whole movement. Spontaneity is not enough. History teaches that, left to themselves without advanced … law to be applied to this area…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… on during this complex and chaotic time in the nation’s history. After a 27-year ban on Mandela’s picture, Hallett’s … the first democratic elections in…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… receiving a first in sociology, anthropology, economic history and native administration. 1947 First gets a job at … years. 1963 First’s South West Africa ,…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the … socio-political landscape. This feature focuses on the history of the Land…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… Introduction Full feature on the History of Women’s struggle in South Africa will give a … of the largest political protest marches in South African…
The CASA Conference
… into the AABN at the International Institute of Social History. The conference included the participation of the …
The National Flag
… are a synopsis of principal elements of the country's flag history. Individual colours, or colour combinations have …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… oppressor. Indeed, Afrikaans has a violent and racist history of oppression during the eras of White Afrikaner … Afrikaners) and perceived as a ‘White’…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… and the "Empty Land" Myth Historiographical Debates: Whose History? Legacy Further Reading References Introduction The … African societies as inherently…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… in 2012 is a momentous event in South African and African history. It will also be the occasion for nationwide … the present. Since 1994, public engagement…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and English in 1952 and in the same year, went back … Blake, R. A. (1977). A History of Rhodesia…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… in a liberatory struggle it is necessary to rewrite the history of the past. It is part of the very process of liberation to expose the distortions of…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… groups in Namibia and Zambia. While the Sotho people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, their history had an important…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… The history of the Young Communist League (YCL) dates back to … 25 May 1922 as the date of its official formation. History reveals that there is evidence of…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … For the serious researcher investigating any aspect of the…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… the South African Confederation of Trade Unions (SACOTU). History NACTU was founded on the 5 October 1986 in … Review, October 1990. Pretorius, Fransjohan…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… Bottaro, Jean and Visser, Pippa. (1999). In Search of History Grade 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press Southern …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Mali and Nigeria. Much of what we know about the early history of West Africa comes from medieval accounts written … a new momentum in the Ghana Empire and…