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Polokwane the Segregated city
… the streets, in 1912, The Northern Star & Country District’s Gazette , a weekend gazette. The process of modernisation … reception was held for him where he…
BiographyNomhlangano Beauty Mkhize
… Sophiatown, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). Her family’s forced removal from Sophiatown to Meadowlands in Soweto, … advocacy for the improvement of the…
BiographyEve Hall
… Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German … identifier that Jewish people had to wear) on her daughter’s clothes…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… move in. Restrictions against the urbanisation of Black women are introduced. The official government reasons for … to coordinate opposition to General Barry…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… city it is today are so often overlooked. In the light of Women’s Day, on the 59th anniversary of the 9 August 1956 march of some 20 000 women on the Union…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… source and enforcing the segregation of South African's along racial lines. Pass laws have been resisted in several … In 1913 the first mass action by…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to the government’s increased introduction of racist and repressive laws, and … Police and government action reached a…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… ANC. March, Mandela travelled to Lusaka to meet the ANC's national executive committee. He then travelled to Sweden … resigns from the Executive of both the…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… is special because she represented the backbone of women leaders in the Eastern Cape, especially in Port … to the Anti-apartheid struggle adjoining it with…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
… where we come from! Our country used to be a place where women were treated as subordinates who could not function … to fighting for the emancipation of…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… a friend of Karamchand Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s father. In 1876, Gokuldas Kapadia and Karamchand Gandhi … that her studies might affect her…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… held in London to protest against President F.W. de Klerk’s visit to the United Kingdom. The rally is addressed by … resigns from the Executive of both the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… from ordinary civil rights. The story of Afrikanerdom’s regeneration from the ashes of its 1902 defeat to … to withdraw immediately from her conquered…
BiographyMary Elizabeth Davis
… December 1858. She was a business person and supporter of women’s causes. Davis was educated first locally and then at the … of her time to social welfare…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… was an organization that became a gateway for liberal women to oppose government policies, against the Black South … where her mother was originally born, to…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… other South Africans. This law was an extension of Hertzog’s 1927 ban on sex between Blacks and Whites. This Act not … role in mobilisation which very soon…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… she left for Johannesburg in January. 1941 Albertina's mother died. The Johannesburg General hospital would not … conference of the ANC youth League. She was…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Women’’s Day: Ga-Motlatla, Ditsobotla Local Municipality, North-West Province, 9 August 2008
… of Parliament and Councillors, Leaders of the Progressive Women''s Movement, Leaders of various women formations in the … Poverty''! We have progressed a…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the National Women’s Day Celebrations: Groblersdal, Limpopo 9th August 2005
… Fellow South Africans: I understand that this year's theme for women's month is "Women building a South Africa that truly … South Africa, and salute the…
South African and World leaders
… about other remarkable South African leaders, visit SAHO's People page Nelson Mandela World leader and former South … the ANC Youth League where Albertina…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… Established literacy classes for adults in her father's garage She spent one year at Wits University and became a … Group Areas Act. Meer and Dr. Goonam were…
ArticleReferencing Resources for Historical Research
… authors but also strengthens the credibility of one’s own writing. To support our community in developing good … Image 1 South African History Online, …
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… how anyone could do justice to this phenomenal woman’s life. No words seem eloquent enough to describe her or … love with Nelson Mandela. From our first date…
SAHO Milestones
… of poverty alleviation programmes in three of South Africa’s poorest provinces. With Our Own Hands - Fighting Poverty in … August - The photographic…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… book "Fatima Meer: Memories of Struggle," edited by Fatima's daughter Shamim, published in 2017. Every time I land at … love with Nelson Mandela. From our…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… in South Africa. She would also become the face of women’s anti-apartheid activism despite and because she served the … qualities of a fighter. [6] …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Unions (Sactu), which held its first annual congress in 1956. Sactu joined the ANC-led Congress Alliance, and took … from joining registered unions…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… in Asia, and sought to establish relations with England’s enemies. Tsar Nicholas II considered establishing a Russian … who was a guest of the Anti-Fascist…