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ArchiveHIV attacks the body: ignorance attacks us all
… National Aids Programme poster. Information on wrong ideas about HIV and Aids. Artwork of various people and the wrong ideas of what they know about aids. …
ArchiveThe future of the United Democratic Front
… A circular about how the United Democratic Front was formed, its role, … the African National Congress and other organisations and about the future of the…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… Johannesburg’s freehold townships. Another critical factor about Africans migrating into the city during the period … were a majority in the Council…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… also fought with the Xhosa over land. In the end, in about 1838, thousands of these farmers moved away from the … D’Urban, after the Governor of the Cape…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… a pilgrimage, with followers from all over South Africa – about 3 000 people – arriving at Ntabelanga to await the … belongings. When local farmers and other…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… a dream", spoke to the hearts of people the world over, about injustice and racial oppression. His dream of freedom … South Africa Boycott on South African…
EventMangosutho Buthelezi reveals his daughter died from HIV/Aids
… from the same disease on April 29. Buthelezi's openness about circumstances leading to the death of his two children … activists hoping that it would lead to…
PlaceVoortrekker Girl
… on the creation of School Climate.This Article speaks about the positive effect of Beautiful School Buildings and … of Oranje Girls School in Bloemfontein,…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… with high treason and the possession of loot. (to read about the attack on Fordsburg square click on the accounts … the community. It cost many lives and…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… the fort town of Okahandja carrying Frau Sonnenberg's news about the armament of the Herero. They tell the officer in … to kill him. At this point both sides…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… unions and the CPSA and demonstrated outside parliament about inadequate food supplies. In Johannesburg, women formed … The Alexandra Women's Council (AWC)…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… collaboration that addressed these questions, that was about the relationship between word, voice, expression and … was sensed the more obvious were the new…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… actions. Lonmin is reported [103] to have been earning about $6 million a day in 2012 preceding the strike. During … hardships in Marikana, and what they…
EventMmusi Maimane was born on this day
… Soweto. [i] Endnotes [i] 8 Things you didn’t know about Mmusi Maimane, … p://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/8-things-you-didnt-know-about-Mmusi-Maimane…
ArchiveWho is Nelson Mandela: standing for the truth campaign
… This is a pamphlet about family and educational background of Nelson Mandela. It also consists of information about the ANCYL, the defiance campaign, the…
ArchiveWorkers resist controls on our union
… Article about how the government and the bosses tried to prevent the … to weaken any organisation the workers establish. Also about the democratic control of…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… people (including many university students) when tested about facts concerning, let us say, the Second World War, … … Worst than that, they are unable to…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… was to address the immense socio-economic problems brought about by Apartheid. Specifically, it set its sights on … Sweden at a cost of R10.875 billion, i.e…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… 5.4% and 18% respectively by the end of 2000,, bringing about greater macroeconomic stability, better reporting and … set out in the NDP. Creating a basis…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… After the siege, there was a marked lack of clarity about the ANC’s official position on the so-called Silverton … Angola at the time, recalls: “We were…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… students of a political student organisation. In 1978, about 400 women students at the University of Zululand … 1991. Thus, the establishment of SASCO…
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… countries; Online Resource: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism-second-wave/a/Womens-Liberation.htm [ … relevant for South Africa. If History is meant…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… by ceremonial dances and scarring. They were taught about their role in the community and of food preparation and … techniques. BOYS: Boys would leave the…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… of Australia The continent of Australia was settled about 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement, most of … and 'origine' meaning from the beginning…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… programs by its executive members in order to learn more about the running of the organisation. In 1927 a student … other social responsibilities such as…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… Whites originated in Natal, but eventually British ideas about race, class, gender, and empire led to the … and brought joy to people with little else to…
EventANC recruits receive military training
… Police Chief, Brigadier C.F. Zietsman, announced that about 4,000 South African exiles were undergoing guerrilla … training in Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania…
ArchiveOp die hoek: sharing
… Artwork of a cartoon in red and white which is about two children who stumble on a coin while walking to school. The children then get into a fight about…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… from the ANC would go to the church meeting and tell them about us wanting to make the Freedom Charter and what it was … women in South Africa should be…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… Deena and Anand and his sister Vanessa - knew nothing about his political activities. The gaps in their ages and …