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Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… some as the language of the oppressor. It was against this background that on 30 April 1976, students from the Orlando …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… the course of the 20th and 21st centuries. Image Source Background and historical overview: There was no South Africa …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… discrimination as well as poverty. It is against this background that women then organised themselves within the … countrywide; working-class women with…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… with men injured and killed. The mines were always in the background of my world. 'My brother Dan was 18 or 19 when the …
Khoisan Identity
In his State of the Nation address on 9th February 2012, President Zuma uttered a promise that provisions would be made ‘for the recognition of the Khoi-San…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… relief adjourned the proceedings. It was against this background that the prosecution outlined its case against us, … Bekker was a pedant “who needed to know…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
Prior to the passage of apartheid laws both Black and White South Africans played rugby, albeit separately. After the onset of apartheid Black South Africans…
Afrikaner
From European to "Africaander” The modern Afrikaner is descended mainly from Western Europeans who settled on the southern tip of Africa during the middle…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… came from, the slave trade means that a huge part of their background remains a mystery. Slavery in the New World played …
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… minimum standards of wages and conditions. Against the background of government and employers' resistance to any …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
Starting with major scientific breakthroughs during the 1930’s, countries have developed weapons that are based on nuclear energy. The use of nuclear weapons…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
This article was written by Carly Spagnola and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Since the beginning of the…
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Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
Abstract: Many South African Jews such as Eli Weinberg were heavily involved in the country’s anti-apartheid movement and faced exile as a result; other Jews…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… The 1926 Mines and Works Act must be seen against the background of the wage and job colour bars in South Africa. …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… close to the children during the police raids. In the background were exercise books, slates, blackboards and chalk …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… of Justice “who is quite well represented here in the background”. He was referring to the overt presence of the …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… African War of 1899-1902 and that one should have a brief background of the general relationship and occurrences …
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C). In 1930 the University College was upgraded…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
Contents Town & regional planning in Johannesburg Residential development in Johannesburg <a data-cke-saved-href="#Black residential development in…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy Chapter 8 Into the Fifties: Defiance Mass trials and mass action characterised the next two decades. The …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… tour of Britain with minimal disruption but against a background of condemnation from African and Commonwealth …