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ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… a White minister. Until then, the government had intended to ‘repatriate’ Indians, returning them to India. But the Indian community’s resistance to…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… living here had been proletarianised and were reduced to the status of labour. This labour was kept subservient … Africans living on the eastern frontier…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… authorities also established tribal land or what came to be designated native reserves and passed land ownership/ … Africa, about 17 000 statutory measures…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… progress'. 1981 February 23 - March 3, Dr Dadoo travels to the USSR with Moses Mabhida , General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… of the African National Congress. 1866 The first attempt to enfranchise Africans on large scale is embarked on when Mfengu chiefs unsuccessfully attempt to…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… The Liberation Struggle in South Africa from the 1960s to the 1990s gave rise to a number of schools of thought on the role of culture (art … from the use of…
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… Madam Speaker I am truly humbled to have been selected by the ANC to present a message of condolence and an obituary on the … . It is not often that a young…
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… Watchman in September 1872. Whilst building a cottage to work from, the newspaper used Mrs J. Dempster kitchen as the press room. The kitchen gave birth to…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… 1602 and is seen as the first company that issued shares to investors. The Company had been granted a monopoly to trade with Asia by the government of the…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in 1894 by Mahatma Gandhi to fight discrimination against Indian…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… other with the use of nuclear weapons, which was referred to as the Cold War. This lesson will focus on the change in … marked by a great degree of…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… facts of what happened. The final paragraph is a threat to sue the university for defamation, common assault, and malicious damage to property. I never…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… General Jan Smuts and his United Party (UP). Subsequent to this, the NP began enacting and implementing racially … LPSA In 1951, a number of people met in…
ArticleXhosa
… dominates the sentence. Missionaries introduced the Xhosa to Western choral singing. Among the most successful of the … provide accounts of Xhosa ancestral…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… Unity Movement (NEUM) in January in which, according to the founding document of APDUSA, the national situation … event that South Africa became a republic…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… of the continent's inhabitants, but where does this word, to which so many have such an emotional connection, come … know that the word ‘Africa’ was first…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… became clearer. These were the first detailed discussions to take place between the two groups on strategy and tactics. … streams- 'people's war' and…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… After the ascendancy of Cyril Ramaphosa to the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) last month, it is vital to understand deep structural…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, December 29th to Wednesday night, January 2nd, was the finest ever held, … Jacobs, who did the catering,…
The girl child
… © Andrew Tshabangu. Julesburg, Northern Province According to a survey, done by the Department of Education (DoE), in … Senior Certificate Examination and…
Independent Electoral Commission
… ELECTORAL COMMISSION IEC) Residents of Soweto queue up to cast their votes in South Africa's third democratic elections April 2004 VISION STATEMENT To…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… South Africa). The following year its name was changed to the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). The organisation had one main aim: to further Afrikaner nationalism…
The oldest forms of human communication
… acting, and using symbols. From sounds and symbols to written communication and language Making sounds such as … communication came about when humans…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… education provision. The Commission recommended ‘resorting to radical measures’ for the ‘effective reform of the Bantu school system’. In 1953, prior to the…
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
… In Britain there was increased political pressure to extend the vote to women and the working class. The years 1912-1914 were … independent Irish state, and…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… are! All over the world, in every country from Brazil to Australia, you will still find people living as hunter … without any cattle'. In South Africa we use…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… insatiable masters. As island-prison you were too small to hold Autshumato (considered to be the devil himself & called Harry die Strandloper) whose … allure…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… Introduction Nationalism refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that … self-determination. African nationalism attempted to…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… signed a contract with the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to oversee the setting up of a refreshment station to supply Dutch ships on their way to the East…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… in nearby Sebokeng Township. The armed men were affiliated to the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP ) and observers suspected … and the African National Congress …