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ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… to the metropolitan population of the city right up to the 1960s, when the rapid growth of Soweto under apartheid … that time, the grassing over of the mine…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… and the liberation struggles in southern Africa from the 1960s until the 1990s, when the Union of Soviet Socialist …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… and patronised the bank. It began to diversify in the 1960s, setting up industrial and other enterprises, so that … as a result of the economic boom that…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… began to grow, and new townships were established in the 1960s and 1970s. The Indians were moved out of the town … Boitokong and Hartebeesfontein were…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… legislation, and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of … Pretoria Central Prison. Two decades in…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… conduct of the struggle for liberation in the 1950s and 1960s were discarded and replaced by an approach that … departure from the non-racial struggle of the…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… swept across the African continent, in the early 1960s African liberation movements in countries that were … strategy of the liberation movements from the…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… of the ANC campaigns in the 1950s and MK activities in the 1960s. Some of the leading members who were instrumental in …
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… of families units was probably closer to eighteen. In the 1960s Hlangane Msiza died, and leadership of what had by now … which translates to "the place of…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… League. The involvement of youth in politics in the 1960s, whether or not in response to developments in …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… 1919 by Clements Kadalie ). In the 1950s and early 1960s there were various protests against the National … Pan-Africanist Congress (an offshoot of the ANC)…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… outside influences until about thirty years ago. In the 1960s, the Department of Nature Conservation began to take …
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… and even during the contemporary times, that is until the 1960s (Sanders, 1997). However, missionaries were quick to … in the gold mines of South Africa…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… an exodus of political activists into exile. In the 1960s, the Government introduced a number of security laws, … MK bases in independent African countries…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… an underground military wing known as Poqo ('Pure') in the 1960s. This became the first black political organization in … spread. After the government…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… in international rugby is rife with controversy. In the 1960s, as international criticism of apartheid grew, the …
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… 1940s membership of the TLSA began to decline and by the 1960s the Apartheid government began banning its leaders. It … vice-president of the TLSA in the mid…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… many workers to the town to the point that, until the 1960s, it maintained its place as South Africa's third … working class character which it retained…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Africans. The Liberation Struggle in South Africa from the 1960s to the 1990s gave rise to a number of schools of …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny “I want to live not …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… of World War II and continued growing into the 1950s and 1960s. In response to this growth and increased employment …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… the border in Morocco. Source: Pretoria News Library. The 1960s period marked an important watershed in South Africa’s … Source: South African National…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… due to petty and severe apartheid laws. Between the 1960s and the unbanning of the liberation organisations and … building consisting of only 52 cells and…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… During the 1960s most of Africa’s countries had gained independence … (PLAN), and an armed insurrection started. During the 1960s, Angola was a Portuguese…
Pedi
… system than a means of household subsistence. In the early 1960s, about 48% of the male population was absent at any given time. From the 1930s to the 1960s,…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… leading figures at the University of Dar Es Salaam in the 1960s and 70s. He is known for numerous political essays and … for use in the data collection of…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… overt political activity being suppressed throughout the 1960s, the NEUM also became dormant. Some of its influential …
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… eyes of the apartheid government - terrorist. In the early 1960s, Mandela was increasingly on the radar of the apartheid … a troublemaker at first,…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… did not change radically for the next twenty years, by the 1960s its dialectic had begun to move from its crude … not feature high on the Government agenda…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… and friendly socialist countries. The latter part of the 1960s witnessed attempts by the African National Congress … on the government from outside the…