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ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
Racial segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The notorious 1913 Land Act, passed…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… to interior cities as migrant mine labourers. By the late 1990s, Xhosa labourers made up a large percentage of the …
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… presidential guard and the police service units. In the 1990s, the government faced protest from veterans demanding …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… risks’. Towards Reconciliation Towards the end of the 1990s, at the request of cabinet, Bishop Desmond Tutu led the …
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… of papers and public lectures, with a focus since the 1990s on inequality and its underlying wealth problem. Among …
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… and he later became a member of the AHI’s council. In the 1990s, according to Giliomee, the AHI continued to act as the …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… no account of the struggle years from 1918 to the early 1990s seems plausible without reference to the Broederbond’s …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
Contents Early settlement patterns of exclusion Towards racial segregation Segregated city Conclusion Once the fort and the early settlement were…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… the city underwent something of a decline in the 1980s and 1990s, due to crime and when property speculators directed …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… women and seen as a pastime for middle-class women. Early 1990s The Namibian Book Development Council was created as a …
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
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…
Afrikaner
… Agricultural Museum, Pretoria, is held annually. The 1990s saw the start of annual arts festivals - the Klein … toured to and performed on university…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is a South African political organization, established by Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, which encouraged a resurgent Zulu nationalism…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… OF THE ARRIVAL DAY OF INDENTURED LABOURERS SINCE THE 1990S. BUT CONSUMMATE SUCCESS HAS SADLY REMAINED ELUSIVE. … Day of Indentured Labourers (16 November)…
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…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
1850 The Nederduitsch Hervormde Church (Nederduitsch Reformed Church) establishes a congregation in Rustenburg. 16 November, A Hervormde congregation is…
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…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… political situation in South Africa began to change in the 1990s, the process for a negotiated settlement gathered …
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… rights organisations grew, so did the magazine. By the 1990s they were openly taking sides on political issues and … apartheid and women’s rights went hand…
ArticleXhosa
… had no option but to become migrant labourers. In the late 1990s, Xhosa labourers made up a large percentage of the …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… independent during the period from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The Coming of Apartheid Key to understanding this …
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… stigma continued to surround the disease and in the early 1990s some prominent white leaders publically claimed that a … politicized along racial lines in…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… in the late 1980s and the transition in the early 1990s, and from such a strong source, it would have confirmed …
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… organisation throughout the period from the 1970s to the 1990s, covering all the costs including air travel. The SACP …
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…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… but also brutal part of Namibia’s history. Since the early 1990s, the Herero and Nama people have been working hard to …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…