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ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
This topic follows on from the previous one. Having looked at a period when it was not clear that Europe would dominate the world, this topic now explores how…
PlaceStone House, Parktown, Johannesburg
This dwelling, designed by Herbert Baker in 1902 as his own home, is an important component of Parktown's surviving architectural character. It makes use of…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… establish in 1949. [4] This organisation encouraged, under cover, a positive sense of cultural identity and political …
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… way they attempt to deceive the European workers and to cover up their own betrayal of socialism and working class …
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… of some organisation as an historical cloak for ever to cover up their treachery before the eyes of the masses of the …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to The Joint Sitting of Parliament, Palais Du Parliament, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 December 2005
… Africa contained one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A geographer in the next century announced …
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… great powerful countries of the world; America and Russia cover huge tracts of land territorially and number hundreds …
ArticleIndian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIU
By the time Harriet became General Secretary for the GWIU, Indian women started to enter the industry in significant numbers from 1960 while the number of…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… to the earth, in order to prevent the enemy using them as cover. The gaol, with its enclosed courtyard, was turned into …
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
By 1895 Britain was getting more confident about taking action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… Proceeds from their South African tour were sufficient to cover their expensive voyage costs. The URMS Tartar sailed … customary laws, and (3) the imposition…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… I flattened to make a sheet of aluminium large enough to cover the bowl. My homemade lid was confiscated on the … then they would issue a lid with the bowl…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… community development and other projects of SASO that I cover under "mobilisation and collective action" can well be … during which the number and range of…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
1997 September, The statue of Steve Biko is defaced twice within a space of three weeks after it was unveiled by President Nelson Mandela. 2006 February,…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… workers were unskilled and their wages were not enough to cover their families’ most basic needs. Families often …
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… laid down in the industrial agreements for the industry, cover all workers, except African males, and the disparity in …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1869-1948
Introduction Gandhi’s life saw many changes in the world. From the peak of the British empire to the beginning of its dissolution he lived through it and…
The strangulation of activity
… steadily closed off the areas which the press may freely cover - more than 100 laws now limit what may be reported …
Archive2011 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2011
… will phase in the extension of the Child Support Grant to cover eligible children under the age of 18 years. Since we …
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… into Congress in the 1950s it merely propped up and gave a cover to the old mistaken policies and approach of the …
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
The Boer Republics, and the Basotho kingdom (a case study) Moshoeshoe moves to Thaba Bosiu The 1820s and 1830s were a time of great upheaval. There were many…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
The IEC announced that a record 48 political parties have successfully registered to contest the 2019 general elections. Most have been formed recently,…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… She visited the rural, poverty-stricken Bantustans to cover forced removals and witnessed painful sights. She …
UCT Summer School 2020
Please note the following history related courses will be offered at the 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE…
ArchiveAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
… the dark that made them run away and fabricate a story to cover up for their cowardice? Did they see something that all …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 5 - The Politics of Socialism
… enterprise will have to pay a certain amount in tax to cover common services. Tax incentives and disincenÂtives can …
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
The first National Consultative Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 May 1969. The conference has become known as the …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… all there were one true man in South Africa, he would cover all. He will build up the whole structure from within. …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
1904 6 January, The settler Frau Sonnenberg tells German soldiers stationed at the Waterberg, including the Sergeant in charge, Sergeant Rademacher, that…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…