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ArticleConference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
Openining address by Prof. Phillip Bonner: "Fragmentation and Cohesion In The Anc, The First 70 Years". Delegates at the 3-day conference “100 years of the…
Grade 12 - Exam Feedback
Case study: Ghana
ArticleThe Slave Trade
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
From voyages of trade and discovery to colonisation: This section of the grade 10 curriculum was developed in 2009. While much of the content is still…
What was the world like in the mid-fifteenth century? (move to archive)
Early African civilisations Activity
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time
This topic examines transport, in all its forms, namely; land, water and air. It looks at the earliest to the most modern forms of transport. The focus in the…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
A study of missionary settlement and the spread of Christianity in southern Africa during the period 1800 - 1925, including a piece on the role of missionaries…
ArticleMaritime history and heritage: shipwrecks
Why are shipwrecks important? Shipwrecks have always held a specific allure. The promise of hidden treasure, the unexplored and underwater adventure is so…
ArticleThe History of Christmas Day and its celebration in South Africa
Christmas Day, celebrated on December 25 in Catholic, Protestant, and most Orthodox churches, is a public holiday in South Africa. On this day Christians…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
ArticleSouth African Film
Feature Films are the long format, fictional (non-factual) films you see in cinemas. They are called long format because they are longer than most other forms…
ArticleBlack South African literature
The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the Eastern Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the…
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
The Predecessor of this left-wing publication was The Guardian. The Guardian itself was founded in 1937 by trade unionists, university professors and some…
ArticleNational Newspapers and News Sites
National Newspapers and News Sites: Independent Online - Union of several South African newspapers such as Cape Argus, Cape Times, The Star Mail &…
List of SA magazines
ArticleThe New Group
This was a group or collective of young South African artists who, upon their return from study in Europe in 1937 began to question and oppose the conservative…
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
This catalogue and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising artists and the "advancement of art" in…
Prevention/Treatment - HIV/Aids in South Africa
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
HIV/Aids is a deadly disease, which is currently not curable. The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) says the evidence that HIV is the underlying cause of…
General South African History Timeline: 2000s
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
1900 7 May, Paul Kruger addresses the volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
1799-1802 Khoi-San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
European's settle in South Africa for the first time and begin to further colonize and trade with the Khoikhoi at the cape, by the middle this century the…
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Alison Drew -- S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
Bloemfontein bantu and coloured people`s directory
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
1980 25 January, Three MK cadres, on their way to carry out a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were…