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ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… SWAPO emerged as the sole liberation movement in the early 1960s because it had the support of the Ovambo, the …
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… begun to become manifest in the local built environment as early as the 1860s. By the 1920s other, and equally overt, …
Luli
… the wages of the unskilled workers. Deep-Level Mining The early outcrop mine.The gold seemed to be near the surface of …
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… and Indian voter turnout was extremely low, but in early 1985 the inauguration of the new Parliament went ahead …
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… the country. The National Women's Coalition was launched early in 1991, and started working on the Women's Charter …
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… Black workers were introduced to trade unionism by the early struggles of white British workers who had begun to …
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… mining and business personalities started in the turbulent early days of Johannesburg, with the support of Cecil John …
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… by the legendary King Sundiata [ii] and lasted until the early 1600s CE [iii] . The Empire’s most famous ruler was … [v] . Most of what is known about the…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… London: Fisher Unwin) (Book) In the late 19th and early 20th century, Olive Schreiner was already making a name … and both had a strong influence on their…
ArticleNdebele
… ancestors of the Nguni migrated down from East Africa as early as the eleventh century (see general history timeline … and successor, Mhlanga, had a son…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… of the Natal Indian Congress. His letters for this early period indicate that there were two other key … Indian Opinion played a very significant role in the…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… global stage of slaveholding societies. Slavery in the early Cape Colony however took on a completely unique form in … in the Caribbean and elsewhere…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… such as the Langa Massacre and the Paarl Uprising in the early 60s demonstrated the extent of the Poqo’s presence in … spread. After the government crackdown…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… the eyes of the apartheid government - terrorist. In the early 1960s, Mandela was increasingly on the radar of the … in, was on the brink of widespread…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… and a number of other ethnic groups against the colonial settlers. With increasing conquest of Africans came the issue … suitable for agriculture and grazing…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos
… Chapter 1 - Change to Wage Labour Chapter 2 - The Early Years Chapter 3 - Where Working People Lived Chapter 4 …
PlaceGlebe Cottage, Waterloo Road, Wynberg
… The building dates back to the early 19th century and, in its time, has undergone a number …
ArchivePetrol bombs hit unionists homes
… at the homes of two VW full time shop stewards in the early hours of Monday July 30. VW branch chairman John Gomomo …
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… in South Africa' (Brandel-Syrier, 1962:97). This early, widespread mobilisation and solidarity in manyanos … that diocese in 1931, for example (SPG, Report,…
Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… by A. P. Mda Foreword by Walter Sisulu Introduction Early Writings Congress Youth League Activities African …
ArchiveCommunique of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress
… National Congress, reporting on a meeting of the NEC in early June, 1989. Condemned the extension of the State of …
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… little known information about Josiah’s mother and his early childhood. Josiah had a younger brother, William, and …
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… to South Africa at her funeral in December 1996. Early Years Nokukhanya Bhengu was born on 3 March 1904 at the …
EventNegotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi
… two political camps had been engaged in violence since the early 1980s. …
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… incomplete epic poem”, Grendon “is to be regarded as an early literary figure of importance”. He also predicted that … youth Paul Kruger traces the history…
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
… after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the …
ArchiveBiography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi
… son of a family of five boys, his politisation began at an early age he was living in Sharpville at the time of the …
EventInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
… 317 (IV) of 2 December 1949. This was one of the early resolutions of the UN, adopted during the fourth …
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… territories, the Europeans came not as dispossessing "settlers," but as administrators, civil servants, … reactionary role, strangling economic progress. The…
EventThe Western Desert Force is upgraded
… French, and Polish soldiers. World War II started in the early hours of 1 September 1939 when Germany attacked Poland. …