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PlaceLamu, Kenya
… for the study of Islamic and Swahili cultures , dating back to the 14th Century. Lamu is situated off the Northern Coast of Kenya & close to the border with…
Say It out Loud - The Education Bill, 1906
… proposed in 1905 he played a leading part in explaining it to the Coloured people, laying stress on the discrimination … for white children, but no…
ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
… this State of the Nation Address, we were deeply saddened to hear of the tragic passing of Dr Hage Geingob, the … was the culmination of centuries of…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… Africans are the descendants of indentured workers brought to Natal between 1860 and 1911 to develop the sugar industry in this province. A complete … caste…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… the late 19th and early 20th century, the British aspired to find various methods of “educating” the Natives and … Therefore, in 1935 the British Colonial…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are … when all seemed hopeless in our country,…
ArticleThe impact of Lenin and Stalin’s policies on the rights of the Russian people
… strong country. He felt that industrialisation was the key to achieving this strength and was convinced that the peasant class needed to accept socialism…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… formation). The processes of state formation refer to the political and military struggles that resulted in the … new states and the downfall of others in…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… with whom he read Arnold's The Song Celestial. Invited to read the original Gita with them. He had never read the … reading. Attended lectures by Dadabhai…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck on the Rand. Moreover, gold mining was … a result, attracted more labour away…
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
… or the Supreme Court of Appeal; as a direct application to the Court, asking it to sit as a court of first and last instance because of the … Court; or as a…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
… so-called Macro-Khoisan, although there is little evidence to suggest that these two languages are related even to each other, let alone to any of the…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their … their followers that the white…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… protests, giving women a voice. Though FEDSAW was unable to recover after going underground in the 1960s, their … in changing the state of South African and…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… so-called Macro-Khoisan, although there is little evidence to suggest that these two languages are related even to each other, let alone to any of the…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… information on the Russian revolution and the change to a Communist state in Russia, we have already touched on … and redistributed it among the peasants in…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement … In other societies where black people have been subjected to widespread…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… Background - "The Road to Reconciliation." South Africa experienced numerous human … A number of brutal measures were adopted by the regime to deal with…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no … that our…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… Labour Contingent (SANLC) was formed in 1916 in response to a request from the British Imperial Government for an African labour force to alleviate the…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… goal of separate development allowed the National Party to maintain the status quo of white supremacy as well as … (Baldwin, 1975: 218). Separate development…
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… in present day South Africa with a number of challenges to overcome. Most obstacles to the development of women can be related to poverty, violence and abuse…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… of a child are the overriding concern when it comes to any matter affecting him or her. Section 28 - Children … entitled "Children", says: Every child has…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… the African Peoples’ Organisation (APO) resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales as a day … and his companions are imprisoned for…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… People's Convention in Cape Town. The organisation aimed to unite Coloureds against the efforts to remove them from the common voters roll. The SACPO also ……
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… 1859 is passed. This law made it possible for the Colony to introduce immigration of Indians as indentured labourers. With the option to return to India at…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
… passed the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance (Black Act) to control the entry of Indians into the Transvaal. Every Indian man, woman and child older than 8…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… however, were chiefly concerned by British attempts to annex their self-declared republics, a move that would … and their conceptualization of their…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom 28 May 1957 The Honourable … among the African people in the Union of…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… the Nationalists and the SAP, entered into a coalition to deal with the economic problemsarising from the depression and to settle finally the question of…