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ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… African struggle against apartheid, especially in the 1940s. As a result of this newspaper's close ties to the ANC, …
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
On 17 June 1992 the Joe Slovo Informal settlement in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was little to attract other…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… early 1930s, which sustained the gold mines well into the 1940s, when the War effort promoted the growth of a secondary …
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… followed. All articles supported the boycott. By the late 1940s membership of the TLSA began to decline and by the …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… examinations which he achieves with a first class pass 1940s 1942 Is unanimously elected as Chairperson of the …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be … than in their actual style of decoration. Since…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
On 30 July 2011, the South African Communist Party (SACP) celebrated its 90th anniversary. Initially known as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… assumed to have taken place during the 1930s or the early 1940s Leadership of the Hartbeesfontein community thereafter …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… control. A change in leadership During the 1930s and 1940s, the SAIC leadership was challenged by radicals who …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… and Jack Hodgson wearing Springbok Legion badges in the 1940s. Although the SL projected itself as a non racial … privileges for white people. As a result…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… the government. The apartheid struggles date back to the 1940s, and women were immediately involved even before then …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… as a cooperative bank and became a commercial bank in the 1940s which grew especially after the National Party came to …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
IntroductionDecember 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation between Blacks…
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
… of the ANC and is replaced by Zaccheus Richard Mahabane. 1940s Seme is elected by Alfred Bitini Xumato serve as …
English Settlement in South Africa
… Town became the legislative capital of the Union. By mid 1940s British influence was weakened even though English …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
Racial segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The notorious 1913 Land Act, passed…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
Introduction Discriminatory, separate and oppressive, these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes for adults in her father's …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… of most political rights. Between mid-1933 and the early 1940s, the Nazi regime passed dozens of laws and decrees that …
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 Soweto
… in the Western Areas had little success in the 1930s and 1940s. Once the Nationalist Party government came into power …
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… used in a positive light by black people. In Umsebenzi, a 1940s ANC periodical, the following phrase is used “The Bantu …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Club and Modern Youth Society, flourishes during in the 1940s and 1950s." 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 … Dubow, S. & Jevees, A. South Africa's…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… society in relation to the Jews in the 1930s and early 1940s. An Australian Professor of Anatomy said in 1926 that …
Zulu Community
… the KwazuluKwaZulu Homeland The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans and …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa Townships and Homelands The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans and …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… after South Africa went off the gold standard. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the 1950s …
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…