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ArticleNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu’s “Mother of the Nation” Legacy
… qualities are said to have been cultivated from a young age when she had to take care of her siblings, stepping in … with a workload that would exhaust most…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… 27 September 2010 The Guptas launch their newspaper, The New Age. At the ANC’s national general council, Pallo Jordan holds up a copy of The New Age…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… expansion in Africa and Asia was trade and the search for new markets. The need for labour to sustain trade created a … Japan, Macau, Malacca, West Indies,…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… In 1965 the Springboks had a successful tour of New Zealand. After the tour Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd of the National Party announced that future New…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… Cape is also well known for its contribution to Stone Age research. Cave sites not far from Port Elizabeth, such as … as decorated pieces of ochre at Blombos…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… fathers. 1882 Kasturba and Mohandas are married at the age of thirteen. Kasturba moves in with the Gandhi family in … 16, More restrictions are to be imposed…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… insurance, sick and out-of-work benefits and old-age pensions.” A conference of Black trade unions is held in … Kadalie, the founder of the Industrial put…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… was an urgency with which he worked. His goal was to get a new newspaper before the public. The first issue of Indian … other key individuals involved in the…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… protected by the full range of rights guaranteed in the new Constitution - the rights to life, dignity, privacy and … ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual…
ArticleWomens Rights
… protected by the full range of rights guaranteed in the new Constitution - the rights to life, dignity, privacy and … ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual…
The Atlantic slave trade
… Nkuwu to Christianity. This led to divisions between the new Christians and followers of the traditional religions. … like so many sheep in a fold, without…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… ± 1000 BCE (Pre-colonial) Late Stone Age people (San/Tsam//Xam) teach their children how to hunt … is established. The Dutch school system reforms because of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… the Western Native Township. 19 May, White women over the age of 21 are given the right to vote . This increases the … member of Parliament and Minister of…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… America. This part of the world is also known as the 'New World' and the 'Western hemisphere', because it lies west … name 'America' comes from. The accepted…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… This law required all black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry a pass book, known as a dompas, everywhere … In the 1960s the pursuit of white…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… 23, 1969, shortly after the centenary of Gandhiji, at the age of 71, the Johannesburg Star wrote that he had enjoyed ' … During the Second World War, when…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… Film Unit With the Gold Coast Film Unit established and a new demand for African filmmakers and actors, the Colonial … Ghana gained its independence in 1957…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… Party 0.5 %. On 10 May 1994, Nelson Mandela, at the age of 77, was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black … allowed to participate. In 1996, Mandela…
Islam
… world and about 1 300 million Muslims. Muslim Festivals New Year/Day of Hijra During Ramadaan Muslims light coloured … for a month and requires all Muslims…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… the legacy of apartheid still casting a long shadow on the new democracy, after almost 5 decades of legitimised racial … introduced free health care to all…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… and announced the establishment, aims and character of the new Party. The conference formally established the Communist … such as; The Clarion, The People's…
The Children’s Charter
… Children should not be made to work before a certain age. Children should not be beaten or abused. All children …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… in the Republic, mainly because the diamond fields created new markets and brought in new trade. In 1866, the new Anglican Cathedral was opened in … of an…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… Moshoeshoe and the Basotho Kingdom The Swazi Kingdom Other New Formations The Experience of Displacement The Mfengu and … of existing chiefdoms, and the…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… outcome of the meeting between La Guma and Bukharin is a new draft resolution sent back to South Africa “suggesting” the CPSA adopt a new slogan: “An…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… tried to facilitate African migration to an area called 'New Brighton' but was largely unsuccessful in this goal … within South Africa as well as abroad …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… agriculture and food supply while retaining control in the new settlement. As the settlement expanded, slavery also … were set for winter and summer, slave…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… way south to the Bay of Natal, swelling the size of the new settlement to 25. By combining their skills and labours … Under the direction of Capt Allen…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… historians look back at this period as its golden age. However the extent of suffering wreaked by the VOC in … commemorated variously in The Netherlands as…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… an American identity. 1927 Sisulu leaves school at the age of 15. His mother works in faraway East London, and … precludes democracy and Walter and other ANC…