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ArticleCountries of Africa
… Countries of Africa …
METHODS OF STRUGGLE
… METHODS OF STRUGGLE …
ArticleParties involved in the history of elections in South Africa
… United Party (UP) The Conservative Party African National Congress (ANC) National Party (NP) Inkatha Freedom Party … Freedom Front (FF) Democratic Party (DP)…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre , in 1960, signalled the … by the apartheid regime also saw the African…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
… (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His … Pact ” of 1947 between Dr AB Xuma of the…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern seaboard … students) and had been recruited…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against … African Communist Party (since 1950) African National Congress (since 1960) Pan…
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
… in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a contemporary and friend … to the executive committee of both the …
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
… General Louis Botha , who became the first Prime Minister of the new Union of South Africa in 1910; his father, who received his … FW de Klerk surrendered…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later … from Lakehaven Secondary in 1975. He…
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
… January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental … for him to travel to Mecca, where…
BiographyAhmed Ebrahim Patel
… Born 1924. Agent. Key organiser since 1939 of the Transvaal Indian Congress on the East Rand, and appeared for the Congress before numerous hearings of the…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
… it later to join the independent Bantu Methodist Church, of which he became president. In the interwar period, he … committee and was senior chaplain of the …
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… Different sections of the South African community reacted to the formation of the republic in different ways. The fact that the republic … , who would later…
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
… columnist, in which capacity he became a supporter of the Africanist faction within the African National Congress (ANC). Arrested in March 1960 for…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… jazz singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid. This is the biographical portion of the paper. … formed in Botswana in 1974 [xxvi] …
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
… Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South … as M. D. Naidoo, belonged to the…
BiographyFaith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko
… School. Following this, she enrolled at the University of South Africa (UNISA) majoring in Education, English and … a member of the Soweto Students League …
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
… was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's … age, but he immediately joined the Natal…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) was launched in Duncan Village … APDUSA appealed for unity between the African National…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the revival of armed activity 1970s-1980s
… The independence of Mozambique, in particular, gave tremendous momentum to the … with the outside.” Throughout 1975 up to the first half of 1976, many people…
BiographyRissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
… Mosie Moolla and Barney later became joint secretaries of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC). In 1952, Desai founded and briefly edited … Guma as…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… known as South West Africa). However, there were a number of workers’ strikes during this period. Poor wages, bad … and the contract system had been a…
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
… 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele, … became a teacher and active member of the…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
… and in national church affairs, serving as president of the Inter-denominational African Ministers' Federation … Church.He was influencial in the African…
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
… Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High … to the Africanist group within the …
BiographyJames D. Ngojo
… He was arrested in connection with the "bucket strike" of 1918 but the case was later withdrawn. As an official of the Cape Congress he attended the 1927 Non…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… is among the Dutch settlers as they encounter a number of different groups of black people who are occupying the … in mines or factories. The South African…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… Archibald Jacob Gumede was born in Pietermaritzburg on 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and … this time, he came into contact with…
The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCL) states crime has gone far enough, and the government has to pull up its soc
… The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCL) states crime has gone far …