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ArticleSouth African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project
Students in African Cultures with Dr Karen Haire, at Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, have just completed an engaging 2-month long pilot project with South…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
The 52nd African National Congress (ANC) National Conference took place from 16 – 20 December 2007 at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane. This conference…
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ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for national…
ArticleArts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)
The Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN) was founded in 1991 as an initiative to influence government policy at national and provincial levels. It was…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
1902 A Coloured people’s political organisation, African People’s Organisation (APO), previously known as the African Political Organisation is formed in Cape…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
Theories and Practice Scientific Racism These ideas about race were pided into two main theories, scientific racism and social Darwinism. Scientific…
Grade 11 Archive
In the 19th century governments in different parts of the world based their policies and laws on the new ideas about race that were developed by the Europeans…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
14 October 1639: Simon van der Stel is born to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens aboard le Cappel on route to Mauritius. 25 May 1646: His father,…
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New words Independent: This means separate from one another or not linked in any way. Free and fair elections: These are elections in which all citizens are…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
Background On 1 April 1997, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) was established with a membership of around 515 000, becoming the second largest…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
Story Synopsis Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
Introduction Fanakalo is a bridging language of communication in multilingual and multinational settings on South African mines [writers spell this pidgin…
Migrant Labour in Southern Africa: 1910-1970’s
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
“Just Transition” has become the buzz term used to explain the socioeconomic need to address the jobs and communities built around fossil fuel industries,…
ArticleThe Big Debate
The Big Debate is a national forum that brings together all sectors of society, including government, civil society, the private sector, experts, youth,…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
Theatre Workshop ‘71 was a theatre training workshop that was founded in 1971 by the South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) in Johannesburg. SAIRR…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project - 2018 Submissions
Kaitlin Bedard Kaitlin Bedard is a History and Secondary Education major at Bridgewater State University. A life-long…
ArticleAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI)
Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI) is a non-profit company specialising in research and publication on the visual arts in Africa. ASAI began in 2005, concerned…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project
South African History Online hosts “virtual internships” with Bridgewater State University students enrolled in a “History of South Africa” course with Dr…
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ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
The Azania Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) was formed in London around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various political parties,…
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