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… country won the final? Why was this important for South Africans at the time? In your own words, what have you learnt …
ArticleSharpeville
… the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and thereafter …
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… (11 March 2017). ↵ [vi] P. Church: The five best South Africans to ever play Wimbledon, … http://www.thesouthafrican.com/the-five-best-south-africans-to-ever…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… unskilled labour in a variety of ways such as recruiting Africans from the then Portuguese East Africa in 1901 that … at the mines. The mines had also become…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… in South Africa. 1799 The first school specifically for Africans opens near what is now King William's Town. Previous to this only a handful of Khoi and…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… honour to be known among the members as "our chairman". In 1947 Stellenbosch University bestowed an honorary doctorate … They Shaped our Century: The Most…
70. The Durban riots, 1949
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In … property was officially given as follows:…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… this jubilee with great enthusiasm, but most South Africans see no cause for celebration. During this 50 years Non-White South Africans have almost…
ANC statement on the Heritage Day, 24 September 2014
… The African National Congress calls on South Africans from diverse cultural backgrounds, beliefs and … what has been a source of our divisions. As South…
EventThe PAC is formed
… and envisaged, according to Sobukwe a "government of the Africans, by the Africans, for the Africans". They considered ANC policies insufficiently …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
BiographyKhaya Biko
Early lifeKhaya Biko was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape in 1944, the second of four children of Mzingaye Biko, a police officer and later a clerk, and…
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
Mr Lawrence Ndzanga,aged 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member of the South African Congress Trade…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
Sebitji Frans Matlala’s wife recounted My husband was taken away by train fromMatlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo]. I…
BiographyMhlabuvelile Hlamandana
Chief Mhlabuvelile Hlamandana (Faku), from Bizana District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], refused to cooperate with the state around policies and…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… the Cape were reduced, but retained, as areas reserved for Africans. In the Boer Republics of the OFS and Transvaal, … into smaller reserves. Crucially,…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… South African government to give full recognition to the Africans participating in the war. July 29, The recruitment … Weinberg, Leon Leveson. December 18,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… South African government to give full recognition to the Africans participating in the war. 15-17 December, At the … (BCM), is born in King Williams Town,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… in 1912. The SANNC declares that its aim is to bring all Africans together as one people, to defend their rights and … supporting cooperation between…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… losses of war. About a quarter of a million burghers and Africans in the concentration camps had to be resettled. A …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… one year before the implementation of formal Apartheid in 1947, India had been the first international country to … to understand the conditions of the…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… power and privilege at the expense of all Black South Africans. The Legislative Framework and Opposition to White … among other people. The pass system…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… Land Act. Between 1960 and 1985, approximately 3.5 million Africans were forcibly removed to the State created … Between 1960 and 1985, approximately 3.5…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… Liquor Act, which was passed on 23 June 1927, prohibited Africans and Indians from serving liquor, driving liquor vans … again allowed to enter licensed…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… Declaration of Human Rights. What puzzles and worries Africans, however, is the opposition persistently offered by … shields their sole means of protection…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… is legitimate, credible and accepted by all South Africans. To this extent, the process of drafting the Constitution involved many South Africans in the…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… about the ANC’s co-operation with white and Indian South Africans and in particular communists. From his recent … as its clear leader, particularly around…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… Tswanas, Vendas, Pedis and Shangaans. In urban areas, Africans were housed in the urban townships on ethnic lines … their schooling in ethnic schools…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… as well as strengthening democracy for all South Africans. The RDP identifies five major policy programmes … economy; Develop human resource capacity of all…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… It was the first election in which all South Africans, registered on a common voters roll, could vote. The … population was free at last. A total of 19.5…