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ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… including a 20 percent increase in wages, met. By the early 1970s, Harriet’s decision to take on National Union of …
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… Soweto from other flashpoints of popular violence in the early 1980s was broken by a confrontation involving members … and UDF followers became sporadic. By…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… African Congress of Trades Unions (Sactu) Emerging in the early apartheid period, Sactu was so interlinked with the … were banned, and by 1965 Sactu petered…
PlaceThembuland
… to prevent the dispossession of the Thembu by aggressive settlers, however in the ensuing political upheavals, the law … a blind eye to white incursions…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Unity Movement, the name provides one clue to its early history: it was a body which aimed to unite, on a … the outset the NEUM failed to win their…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… and Winston Ntshona popularized plays in the 1970s and early 1980s that included themes of township life and Black … of form: izibungoi and Eurocentric,…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… 1894, and the Transvaal and Cape Indian Congresses in the early part of the 20th century. Members of the Indian … and Sikhs also came to South Africa from…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… Seatlholo fled to Swaziland some time in November or early in December. Finding it difficult to organise and … and was based in Lagos. Towards the end…
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… the PAC and ANC respectively. The armed struggled, begun early in the 1960s was intensified in the second half of the 1970s through to the early 1990s. Both…
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
… stronger Agricultural base there. Preference was given to settlers who were wine growers or had expert skills. Farmers …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter II - Functions of the Missionary
… tracts of land are handed out to Dutch farmers or British settlers; there is unrest on the so-called frontiers; the … summing up this achievement, let us get…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… objectives contained in this minute should be achieved as early as possible. CAPE TOWN, 4th May 1990 …
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… The Beginnings of Protest, 1860- 1923 Introductory Survey Early years of Indian Settlement Gandhi in South Africa …
57. The Agreement does not touch the root of anti-Asiaticism
… By so doing he would find that the bulk of the enlightened settlers who have made this country their home would heartily …
57. The Agreement does not touch the root cause of anti-Asiaticism
… so doing he would find that the bulk of the enlightened settlers who have made this country their home would heartily …
Doing Oral History
… , the town was burnt to the ground. In 1873 , European settlers built a town on the site, and named it Stanger after … importation of Indian labourers during…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… own life. There was no glamour in taking this path in the early seventies when one was branded as a radical terrorist … ancestry including French, Dutch,…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… hunting became a major problem. Militia groups and illegal settlers were also settling in the park, while fire and … used as a shelter by runaway slaves…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… her divorce was the source. Head’s whereabouts in the early 1960s were not documented, which leads to speculation … Primary Rhodes University. "Bessie Head:…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… the war, and organised reconstruction after the war. Early life and career Milner was born in 1854 in the town of …
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… skull of a 3-year-old child. The skull was the first early human fossil found in Africa. With his find, Dr. Dart … years ago. When Dr. Dart's announced his…
PlacePort Alfred
… One of the many difficulties faced by the 1820 Settlers , was accessibility to the outside World. In 1821, … One of the many difficulties faced by the 1820…
PlaceLiesbeek River and Park, Cape Town
… at the Cape. In 1657, shortly after the arrival of Dutch settlers, the Dutch East India Company granted land, along …
PlaceHermannsburg School and Mission Museum, (Greytown)
… German families in these areas are descendants of those settlers . The Deutsche Schule Hermannsburg became the very … German families in these areas are…
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… famous as an Afrikaans writer, even though much of his early writings and early education were in English. He matriculated at the age … named Encephalartos…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… from which they were chosen. Negotiators in the early 1990s had agreed that the 1996 draft constitution would … constitutional system was restructured during…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… to undermine and oppress the local population. During the early period of colonisation, the Herero people were far more … but also brutal part of Namibia’s…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… regard to GDP was that the negative growth rate of the early nineties was reversed. Lastly, tightening of the … of economic growth GNP was seen as a…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… of Black people in South Africa. However, in the 1950s and early 1960s the South African government reinforced … approaching the struggle for freedom and…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… were the first to encounter the Europeans travellers and settlers. These are the Khoi and the San people - the … the South African nation. At the same time,…