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ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… went off the gold standard. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the apartheid government constructed …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… ORGANISATIONS USE AGAINST THE APARTHEID REGIME AFTER THE 1950s? SOURCE 3A Below is a source which illustrates … to fight against Apartheid in South Africa…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… segregation based on race. This became evident in the 1950s as the government passing a series of legislation that … decolonisation across the African…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… in 1948 and non-violent resistance to apartheid in the 1950s. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World … One of the most controversial actions…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench … The Langa Massacre The anti pass campaigns of…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
An image of bold, selfless youth in late 1970s South Africa inspired by the black radical consciousness philosophy. Image Source Essay Question: To what…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… freelance reporter. [x] She became a court reporter in the 1950s as well, and witnessed the political unrest and … in the Pan Africanist Movement, or the PAC…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… Mandela and MK The late 1950s saw the first hints of an armed struggle occurring in … failures of the non-violent strategy of the ANC during the 1950s. A…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… oppressive laws against Black people in South Africa. The 1950s decade was one of the periods of heightened activity in …
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… Art in Africa Today. Other national exhibitions in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s had included the works of one or two …
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… research seem to have followed this trajectory. By the mid-1950s, even the most enterprising and driven sharecropper was …
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… from land dispossession under colonial authorities in the 1950s. The formation of UNITA in 1966 attracted the largest …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… national struggles such as the anti-pass campaign of the 1950s, the struggles around the rejection of the homeland … struggles continued to feed into…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… were poles apart and intersected dramatically from the 1950s onwards. In time, the Broederbond was reinforced in its …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… ANC continued along the same path during the rest of the 1950s, until in 1959 some members broke away and formed the …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… family endured the forced removal from Sophiatown in the 1950s and relocated to Soweto, one of the new townships that …
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… to the principle of non-violent resistance until the late 1950s, when it began to contemplate armed struggle. It was … the prime movers behind the civil…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… people had become disillusioned with the ANC by the late 1950s, the PAC claimed, it was because they had seen time and … ANC was relatively weak and had made…
A growing urban African population
As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… resistance providing textured renditions of the 1940s and 1950s compositions. He is a remarkable composer in his own …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… answer to an urgent need. They moved there in the early 1950s, living in barracks that were partitioned off into … in Lenasia, in 1955, was nonexistent…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
1850 The Nederduitsch Hervormde Church (Nederduitsch Reformed Church) establishes a congregation in Rustenburg. 16 November, A Hervormde congregation is…
South African and World leaders
… In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she began to assume a leadership role – both in the ANC … that every citizen of a country has or…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He has played…
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…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… control. Britain renamed the country as Tanganyika. In the 1950s, a popular independence movement emerged to challenge … in African majority-ruled societies…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… control. Britain renamed the country as Tanganyika. In the 1950s, a popular independence movement emerged to challenge … in African majority-ruled societies…