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ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… in South Africa Poor Afrikaners in South Africa during the 1920s. Image source South Africa had laws that relied on …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… a resort for Whites. Tlhabane, already established in the 1920s, begins to see further extensions. Tlhabane was first …
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… nationalism during this period and through into the later 1920s and 1930s was a critical factor in the electoral … to tighten control of black workers by…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… nationalism during this period and through into the later 1920s and 1930s was a critical factor in the electoral … to tighten control of black workers by…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… During the 1920s, the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) - …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… to reproduce these racist politics in schools. Towards the 1920s and onwards, school protests became more frequent and …
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… Industrial and Commercial Union of Clements Kadalie in the 1920s was the first success on a mass scale, but it dissolved …
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… [Accessed: 10/02/2015] ”¢ capitalist boom of the 1920s: strengths and weaknesses in the US economy; ”¢ USA society in the 1920s; Source: …
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
Durban an Overview
… in 1887, while an Art Gallery followed in 1899. During the 1920s the city began to develop a more diversified industrial …
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1956 carried the idea forward. …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
Jazz has had an especial role in the social and cultural politics of South Africa. This paper will trace its function in the political struggle waged by Black…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… who had begun to publish similar theories during the 1920s. Ultimately, it claimed, every black South African, …
ArticleA history of Soweto
… the relocations in the Supreme Court, 1925. In the 1920s there was a backlog of 40 000 houses and the list was …
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… the local built environment as early as the 1860s. By the 1920s other, and equally overt, influences had also begun to …
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…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… The newspaper went through a difficult period in the 1920s when it was crippled by financial constraints. As an …
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… English Settlement Redhouse, near Port Elizabeth. c1903 - 1920s. Frescura collection The first immigrant structure in …
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… among academics. Thus, barring a brief hiatus during the 1920s and 1930s, some aspects of their built environment, …
The Sweet Workers’ Union
… Workers’ Union, founded by Fanny Klenerman in the mid-1920s, when that organisation fragmented as a result of its …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… in what was known as the Garment Workers Union. In the 1920s and 1930s, many poor Whites were flocking to the …
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… number of serious weaknesses in the economy. Although the 1920s appeared on the surface to be a prosperous time, income …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
How did the Cold War period shape international relations after the Second World War? After the Second World War, there was a struggle between two world…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
This article was written by Skylar Jayes and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractThe Federation of South…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He has played…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
An unassuming veteran: Sheila Weinberg Obituary by Raymond Suttner in The Mail and Guardian, 19-25 November 2004, p.36 Sheila Weinberg has suddenly died. She…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
On 9 June 1983, three members of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were executed at the gallows in Pretoria…