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ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… themselves against European conquest. As a result, most of Africa was colonized by 1900. Only Ethiopia and Liberia … After the First and Second World Wars…
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… David Ivon Jones was the secretary of the ISL, who had been instrumental in forming the first black trade union - the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) -…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Democrats (COD)
… Whites who identified themselves with the aspirations of those who participated in the Defiance Campaign formed the … the South African Indian Congress (SAIC…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
… Introduction Pretoria is located in the north east of South Africa, to the north of Gauteng , and 60 Kilometres away from the north east of Johannesburg [i] …
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… On 20 July 1985 the government declared a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts in the Eastern Cape … and PWV (now Gauteng ) areas. This was the…
BiographyBen Turok
… Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came … activities. In 1962 he was convicted under the…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… war in recorded history, lasting less than three-quarters of an hour. The engagement was provoked when the pro-British Sultan of Zanzibar, Ali bin Said, died…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… Pretoria’s founder – a man by the name of Marthinus Wessels Pretorius - arrived in Pretoria in 1848 [i] . At the time of his arrival , King Mzilikazi and the…
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… education, and one for sport. The Executive is a committee of all the heads of these departments. This is called the Cabinet The … is where our elected…
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 had now been…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture making a total of 384 trips. The first ship the Truro arrived on 16 November … ship, the…
The oldest forms of human communication
… Some of the oldest forms of human communication include talking or making sounds, … Further down the line this progressed to meeting the needs of bartering…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… The coastline of the Eastern Cape is treacherous, and several ships ran … or sunk offshore after Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498. Some of…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… The Bambatha Rebellion claimed the lives of 4000 Zulu and 30 white people and cost the colonial government £740,000. Some of the Zulu died fighting on the…
BiographyJean Bernadt (nee Alkin)
… on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. Jean’s family moved to South Africa when … are traced back to when she joined…
BiographyEsdras Lusiba Ntloko
… spread through the greater Queenstown region in the wake of the 16 June Soweto uprising. Arrest and imprisonment on Robben Island At the age of 22, Ntloko…
ArticleSouth African Council of Churches (SACC)
… Brief political context on the formation and history of the SACC ... read on 5 July 1995 statement to a workshop on The role of the Church and the 'Healing…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… motion. These plans culminated in the formation and launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on 20 August 1983 in a … transition By the mid 1980s,…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… was not adopted immediately by the ANC. The executives of the four organisations of the Congress Alliance met at the beginning of August 1955 and agreed to…
ArchiveThe Basotho Origin of Mathematics - A Public Lecture By Zulumathabo Zulu
… The popular myth in South Africa is that the African natives were devoid of mathematical knowledge until the advent of the Europeans. Nothing could be…
The collapse of apartheid in South Africa - coming together of internal and external pressures
… The collapse of apartheid in South Africa - coming together of internal and external pressures …
ArticleCommemorating 350 years of the establishment of the first formal school in South Africa
… Commemorating 350 years of the establishment of the first formal school in South Africa …
CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927
… CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927 …
CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927
… CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927 …
CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927
… CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927 …
CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927
… CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927 …
CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927
… CHAPTER III: The Aftermath of the Cape Town Agreement: The Politics of Dissension, 1927 …
List of organisations which support and are affiliates of the regional United Democratic Front
… List of organisations which support and are affiliates of the regional United Democratic Front …
International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract) …
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… night watchmen go on strike, demanding a wage increase of R10 per month. 8 January - Rumours of an upcoming strike at Coronation Brick and Tile in Durban … a…