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Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Front (UDF) in August 1983, this pre-eminence was sealed, and the Black Consciousness organisations began to wane. The … beginnings since 1973 reinforced the…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… In September 1984, riots broke out in the Transvaal and spread to other parts of the country. These riots … ungovernable. A State of Emergency was declared…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… Aisha Ahmed Aisha Ahmed was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Currently a freshman at Southern Methodist University, She is majoring in history and biology…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… process. During the two days of discussion the mechanism and technicalities of transition and a changeover of political leadership were clarified. At … a…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… famine. This resulted in conflict over cattle, grain and water between various indigenous tribes resulting in war and eventually contributing to the Mfecane…
Pedi
… [baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among … Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. Together the…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… homeland, independent of British rule. The determination and courage of these pioneers has become the single most … Nationalism. However, far from being the…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… The Netherlands became known as the Batavian Republic and the ruler of the Netherlands, Prince William of Orange, … taking possession of the Dutch colonies…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… of Parliament, Cape Town, 24 May 1994 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, President of the Senate and Deputy President, Deputy Presidents, Chief Justice,…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of preventative and curative measures appear to have been implemented in … for the…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… the Soweto riots first began. Kids were restless, tense and confused. 'There is no similar record of what the African … at one of the schools recounted: .. …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… Xhosa lived on the banks of the Buffalo River in 1686 and settled at what is now Somerset East in 1702. In the … Xhosas clans on the fringes of the…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs The Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West Province…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… is no doubt that the behaviour of gangsters like Kortboy and Don Mattera in Sophiatown was despised by many as "anti … were a phenomenon of early British…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… in Stockholm. It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF became clearer. These were the … to take place between the two groups on…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as providing the most poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… Medu ran units specialising in music, theatre, graphics and visual arts, photography; and "research and production" (writing). Over the eight years of its …
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and non-violent resistance to the…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… In 1912 Enoch Mgjimia , a lay preacher and independent evangelist, broke away from the Wesleyan Methodist Church and joined the Church of God and Saints of…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… Nazi Germany became a fascist country under Hitler and the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945. Here you can read about … Depression, more than any other factor,…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… short stories. [i] She was also described as a passionate and invested woman in all subjects of which she wrote. Many … historian as well. She befriended…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… the region. Large stonewalled settlements of both BaKwena and BaFokeng characterised the troubled times of the … Mzilikazi , however, depopulated the region…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… The arrival of the Europeans WHO ARE THE SAN SAN COMMUNITY AND BELIEFS SAN CUSTOMS AND RELGION SAN FOOD SAN CLOTHING SAN MEDICINE SAN ROCK ART … gatherers of…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… Cape Town at least once during the last fifty years. Young and old may recall certain portions of that unique structure, … Some visitors have retained warm…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… believe Dumile was decidedly ambiguous as to his age and birth year in order to protect himself against several … in apartheid law. His parents, Geelbooi…
ArticleTransport on land
… was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals Carts, wagons and coaches The bicycle The steam engine and the train The motor car Common forms of transport of…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project … member of multiple grassroots…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… in what is now modern day Botswana. Their population grew, and spread throughout the Western half of South Africa. They were the first pastoralists in…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… He left the country because of the continual hardships and injustices of the apartheid state. Hallett grew up in a … of Cape Town where the influences from…
Liberation
… the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world to know. … of poverty in rural areas, of…