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… when adopted by us. We have, however, adapted them to our own conditions as they give us, the most dynamic way … of South Africa, the European population of…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As the years passed, they sought to…
Griqua
… The arrival of the Boers and the colonial masters to the area known as Griqualand West, denied the Griquas the … defined by race, culture, religion and…
Griqua community
… The arrival of the Boers and the colonial masters to the area known as Griqualand West, denied the Griquas the … defined by race, culture, religion and…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work towards a peaceful solution to the problem of apartheid through raising and distributing…
National Land Committee
… country. This must address racial inequalities in access to land and the results of spatial planning. However, claimants should be able to choose the most…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… the term sometime in 1884, and it has since been used to describe the twenty-plus years when the various European powers explored, divided, conquered and…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… introduced after 1948 made segregation far more harmful to the non-White population. These laws entrenched the idea … The intention of the National Party in…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… The General Assembly of the United Nations decided to include in its agenda an item entitled: "Treatment of … South Africa and that the United Nations was…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… and Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The festival aims to bring socially engaged performances and visual arts into … Infecting the City is freely…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, which refers to the intentional, systematic extermination of six million … of eugenics. The Nazis used…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… 1654 Slaves from India and South East Asia are introduced to the Cape. 1820 A number of Indians arrive in Cape Town … provides security that they will not be…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… peace and security, it experienced fundamental challenges to its raison d'être. Among these challenges – and arguably the most limiting challenge – was the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… witnessed thousands of students leaving South Africa to join liberation organisations (primarily the ANC and the … the South African Students Organisation …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… Nationalist Government . The Bill was implemented in order to remove voting rights of Coloured South Africans. The process to change the constitution that…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… with the issue of self-determination; and SUBSEQUENT to the discussions between the delegations of the ANC, the … record the following agreement: 1. The…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… was a catalyst for South African feminist organisation to address violence against women. In 1975, Anne Mayne, a … visited the US – experiences which were…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… African National Congress (ANC) won with a majority vote to head the government of national unity. In order to rebuild and transform the economy after years…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to the crisis: * A global economic crisis: In the 1980s there … people felt in the rising cost of…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… Hendrik Potgieter was one of the first Voortrekkers to settle in the Rustenburg area. David Livingstone, the … how the Boers had crossed the Vaal River in an…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… and incompetence. Examples include one NPP MP voting to support military conscription for Indian youth because he … a bill favouring the Group Areas Act…
ArticleThe Constitution
… and a multi-party system of democratic government, to ensure accountability, responsiveness and openness. … African citizenship. All citizens are: equally…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… salt pans in the Zoutpansberg for a year before moving to Delagoa Bay. Andries Hendrik Potgieter set up the first … the centralised authority that Pretorius…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… murder, among others. Despite an international campaign to save their lives, the apartheid government went ahead with … and sheer brute force. The period…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… left the Cape on the Great Trek, their ideal was to create an Afrikaner republic. After facing much opposition … Capital, colonial authorities and Afrikaner…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… representing the exclusive interests of whites sits to negotiate South Africa's first constitution. 1909 19 … Charter. 1957 28 May 1957 - Chief Albert…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… his musical capabilities. In this way Ibrahim was able to use his musical ability and commercial success to become a voice for the oppressed people in South…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… of food. Towns and cities developed and people had to learn new skills for living in a larger group, like trading extra food, building roads to travel on,…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… Cape Town in 1901. SAMA did not restrict its membership to Muslims only. Tobin and W. Collins, a lay preacher In the … around a single and specific issue…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. … had effectively been crushed, but the extent…