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ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
This article was written by Skylar Jayes and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractThe Federation of South…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… Women's Council (AWC), which was established in the mid-1940s. The AWC became active in issues relating to squatter …
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… of India’s resistance providing textured renditions of the 1940s and 1950s compositions. He is a remarkable composer in …
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
An unassuming veteran: Sheila Weinberg Obituary by Raymond Suttner in The Mail and Guardian, 19-25 November 2004, p.36 Sheila Weinberg has suddenly died. She…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
On 9 June 1983, three members of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were executed at the gallows in Pretoria…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… extremely high. After the Second World War in the late 1940s, there was a large increase in the number of gangs in …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… Department was changed to The Department of Defense in the 1940s In the 1980s, the MX-Missile was renamed "The …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… elected as the first general secretary of the FCWU in the 1940s. In 1941, the recently formed FCWU organized a …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… most durable in the history of South African unionism. The 1940s also saw the establishment of the African Mineworkers …
ArticleEOAN Group
The EOAN Group was founded by Helen Southern-Holt in 1933. EOAN Group was a social and educational centre and cultural association that offered music…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
ArticleXhosa
… in South Africa's gold mines. The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans. In …
Gallery
This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from 1900…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… around the Orange Free State The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans. In …
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
Theories and Practice Scientific Racism These ideas about race were pided into two main theories, scientific racism and social Darwinism. Scientific…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
1850 The Nederduitsch Hervormde Church (Nederduitsch Reformed Church) establishes a congregation in Rustenburg. 16 November, A Hervormde congregation is…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
This article was written by Ashley Schumacher and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the year of 1955 in…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… or stage a major campaign like the SAIC and ANC in the 1940s and 1950s against the White government. Coloured …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… the government to suppress the trade union movement in the 1940s. Among those brought to trial were volunteers and trade …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
The Ndebele and the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform promised…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… NATIONALISM PROMOTED IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE 1930s TO 1940s? Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the … was promoted in South Africa from the 1930s…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
ArticleTswana
… mines, for their livelihood. The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans. In …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, oppression, and…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
The involvement of the South African national rugby team, the Springboks, in international rugby is rife with controversy. In the 1960s, as international…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… rights and as a result began to mobilise in the 1930s and 1940s, their struggle gathering momentum in the 1950s. …
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
IntroductionNovember 1977, Dr Mamphele Ramphele stands over Steve Biko's open casket in his home before the funeral, attended by 20,000 mourners at King…