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ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need western values be to accepted as citizens…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… massacre, in which over 800 people were killed at a SWAPO refugee camp in 1978. The ensuing international outcry led to …
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… private road in order to have easier access to his various camps. He used a special little donkey-cart only 3 feet wide, …
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… members located in artificial environments such as army camps, and even those who were in places such as London …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Grahamstown. Today it is the only survivor of the mining camps’s early newspapers. 1888 The Johannesburg Lighting …
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
By the early 1980s, the Congress movement was becoming established as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves at the cutting edge of social…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both within South Africa and outside in exile. Klug believed that…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) conference in Johannesburg. Boesak…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… A further group of seventeen ANC members leave Mawelawela refugee camp, near Mbabane, fearing a South African attack. … two women and two children) and one…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
1799-1802 Khoi-San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… African War, both in combat and within the internment camps, the tension between the ‘bittereinders’ and the …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… German protectorate. 1890s Witbooi begins attacking German camps and convoys. New German governor Leutwein attacks … Cornelius Fredericks and Manasse …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… to send a contingent of guerrillas from Libyan training camps via Athens where they were to board an Air Zimbabwe …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… objectives. 26 August, A.K. Ganyile, a Pondo leader and refugee in Basutoland is kidnapped with two companions by six … of 18-24 to register for selective…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… out of the country and underwent military training in the camps, in one or more countries, he would have thought that … war. And my own personal… I found…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… bomb near Gaborone, Botswana, where he was living as a refugee. The assassination was the work of the South African …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
A couple of days back I had a dream where I visited the renovated premises of my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt River just around the corner from where I…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… on bail, and placed under house arrest. 26 July, A new refugee centre in Francistown, built to replace the old …
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… cheap labour but also as dumping grounds and concentration camps for the jobless and homeless hundreds of thousands who …
PlaceVredenhof Organic Farm, Somerset West
For many year seafarers sought a trade route to link Europe and the East in order to cut out the Arab middlemen who controlled the land routes. Vasco da Gama,…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… and of utmost importance. Now within CCAWUSA both camps were represented by more or less equal numbers. The …
Indian Community in Lenasia
From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collaboration with and resistance to apartheid…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… against Stalin’s policies were arrested and sent to labour camps or executed. After Stalin’s death in 1953, Soviet …
PlaceWynberg, Southern Suburbs
… outdoor education, daily bible teaching, computer classes, camps, regular excursions and a fully-stocked library …
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 87 - "Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention", The…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… in memory of the people who died in the concentration camps during the South African War, reminding Afrikaners of …
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… St. The above six Districts comprised the City Bowl area. Camps Bay and Clifton were largely unsettled, Llandudno was …