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ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… See H. Biscombe, In Ons Bloed, 2006. ↵ [cxv] Historical Background, … http://www.sun.ac.za/english/about-us/historical-background (7 October 2015). ↵ [cxvi]…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… classified as a racial hybrid without a defined cultural background. By many Whites, he was considered a “half-breed” …
South African and World leaders
… together in South Africa, each with their own stories and background. All of these have produced amazing leaders who …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… [63] Herewith a brief overview of the socio-political background of the White appropriation of Afrikaans, starting … the peasants, the urban proletariat…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
An image showing the acculturation of indigenous Australian children by the British officials Image Source Essay Question To what extent did Australian…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… possibly evidence of his leanings. His man of the world background as a director of industrial and insurance …
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… libraries. Because of his banning, Turner remained in the background and Webster, Erwin and others were involved in a …
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… that were completely different from their own. The Mfecane Background The Nguni word mfecane means “crushing”. This …
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… SAHO's Black Consciousness Movement feature. This background section is a short summary of events in South …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
Gangsterism is often characterized as anti-social behaviour frowned upon by polite sections of society. There is no doubt that the behaviour of gangsters like…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… federal regions or states, plus ten from each of three “background groups” in the population, English, Afrikaners, … ministers in the executive, half from…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
Introduction Fanakalo is a bridging language of communication in multilingual and multinational settings on South African mines [writers spell this pidgin…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
In the 1930s various trade unions from different backgrounds ranging from conservative craft unions, white racist industrial unions, white dominated racially…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Watch the TRC Report on the Botswana Raids Lesotho Lesotho Background When the South African Union was established in … [Accessed 18 August 2011] Swaziland…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… was about 300 people with about 60 houses. Early background 1889-1895 The area between the Orange and Vaal …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… of Apartheid South Africa (blacks and coloureds) in the background, the sixties slum neighbourhoods tidied up and …
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… mind unreasonable. Considered against the setting and the background as depicted in the evidence, the whole fabric of … was quite explicit: It is…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… 1970s. After a brief description of the Luthuli family's background, this paper turns to an examination of Luthuli's …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… renewal of trade union activity after a decade-long lull. Background of the trade union movement Although trade unions …
America, Spanish conquest
… came from, the slave trade means that a huge part of their background remains a mystery. Slavery in the New World played …
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… afterwards. Industrial action was undertaken against the background of low wages and discriminatory labour practices …
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
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ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
The period preceding the formation of the South Africa Union witnessed the establishment and growth of trade unionism which continued even after formation…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria, South Africa constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… and Julius Malema in 2011 were analysed against the background of the scholarly literature on song and the armed … and elsewhere in the world. Whilst…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Trotskyist groupings. They tried to conceal their Marxist background, used a nationalist rhetoric and in the process … set of demands, its own constituency…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (now known as KwaZulu Natal – KZN) saw a…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… remains contested. This timeline provides some historical background to the role of English in the Namibian public by …
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… Reizen (1711) depicts the Khoikhoi way of life. The background shows the Dutch settlement and way of life …
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
The Mfecane (a Zulu word which translates to “the crushing”) or Difiqane (a Sotho word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other…