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BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
… large quantities for the armed forces. At the time of his death in 1963 he owned several snakebite preparations and …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… Party(NP), with its platform of apartheid, during the 1948 elections. Though it did not command the highest number … A united front of all Black and anti…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… hoping for the maximum sentence for the accused i.e. the death penalty. From the outset, the defence team informed … Fischer because the Rivonia trialists…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… ESCOM’s output increased by five times between 1933 and 1948. Part of this growth was due to ESCOM taking over … of coal into oil. In the annual report of…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… under the wings of the English means only one thing, death, and especially spiritual death.” These views, however, would soon change with a larger … appear…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… process of mobilisation, bringing already existing youth bodies into an overarching body, the Sekhukhuneland Youth … of Solomon Maditsi, a young boy was…
Islam
… spread of Islam A century, or 100 years, after Muhammad's death Muslims had become powerful and had defeated the … According to Muslim tradition women have…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… and events became increasingly militaristic following the death of the two protesting miners. Between 12- 14 August at … were not caught on camera, with some…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… Union is formed. 1946 August, African Mine Workers strike. 1948 Rise of the Nationalist Party to state power. 1950 … African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)…
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… instituted a policy of apartheid that lasted from 1948 to 1994. Apartheid grew out of racial segregation under … terrorism. Pace MacGill Gallery, New York,…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… represented the majority of Jews in Palestine form 1920 to 1948. [14] Irgun - This was a Jewish armed group led by … saw the destruction of Palestinian…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… and without necessarily the sanction of the sport bodies of their respective countries, it is now impossible to … him. It was only when his grave, and…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… “African Singer on Manne-Hole Stage,” Los Angeles Times, Jul. 27, 1968. ↵ [7] Tim Modise, “Caiphus Semenya turns 76, …
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… founded in 1894 by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. These two bodies had split in 1939. 18 April 1944 Smuts meets with an … 1947 The Transvaal Indian Organisation…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… and clerk at the municipal office’s DBA was hacked to death with axes and sharp instruments on the farm … and set alight. They were both convicted and…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All people shall be entitled to take … shall be the same, regardless of…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… South Africa’. Thus on 19 October 1977, a month after the death of Biko, the security police shut down the BCP and all other BCM associated bodies. These…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… Novodovichy cemetery in Moscow. November, Following the death of J.B. Marks, Dadoo is elected South African Communist … South African had a proud record of…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was rife in South Africa long before that …
PlaceKroonstad
… Minister Sibusiso Joel "S'bu" Ndebele (born 17 October 1948), led this ceremony. He was the Minister of Correctional …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… Turning points in modern South African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be … of ANC. For around fifteen years…
ArticleZulu Family History
… September 1968), son of Solomon kaDinuzulu, king from 1948 to 1968. Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu (b. 14 July 1948), son of Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon,…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… He continued non-violent defiance of apartheid until his death in 1969, long after most militants of the liberation … presidential address to the Transvaal…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… Africa's oppressive Government. The Apartheid laws of 1948 had meant that racial discrimination was officially … they married and which jobs they were…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Timeline pre 1900 1902-1910 1910-1924 1924-1939 1939-1948 1948-1960 1960-1994 1939-1948:- The Second World War and its impact 1939 Aliens …
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
… by doctors in the security police torture and subsequent death of Steve Biko . Like most political activists, the …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… World War Two. 5 The National Party won the election of 1948 on a platform that proposed an answer to this "native … audience. 40 When the Nationalists came…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… to deal with rising levels of crime in the townships. In 1948 the National Party won the general elections and set up … protect individual freedoms against…
EventAnton Fransch, ANC guerrilla, killed by the special forces of the apartheid regime
… least three cases, weapons were planted at the scene after death. It also needs to be noted that senior officers of the … Captain … was that, in the…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… can take a huge toll on lives. Under apartheid In 1948 Buthelezi enrolled to study history and “Bantu … president of the IFP until 2019 and an MP until his…