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ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the enforcement of an Apartheid State, it took time for the world to take notice and action…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature Hannah Pagan Abstract The social model of disability has recently…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature Hannah Pagan Abstract The social model of disability has recently…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
1862 The first documented football matches in South Africa are played in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (between White civil servants and soldiers). 1879 …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
The Role and Impact of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile and Women in South Africa Politics Abstract Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile has played a major and vital role in the…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
The school students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to write: 'We haven't…
ArticleHealth and welfare
South Africa is a country of relative prosperity, with vast resources and a modern infrastructure. In contrast to this, it is plagued by persistent and…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
1993 The Guptas arrive in SA. 1994 The Guptas establish Sahara Computers. The Guptas fund Essop Pahad’s publication, The Thinker. 2002 Jacob…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
Abstract Lionel Ngakane was a filmmaker, a writer, a director, an advocate and a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
Figure 1.1. With his call to put “America First”, Donald Trump is the latest recruit to a dangerous nationalism. Flagrantly authoritarian figures like Donald…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in Bloemfontein. 11 September, Gerrit…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 11) “Bantu Education or the Street” The first half of the 1950s was the…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
1. What Shall We Do Now (Hindustani) Ab tum hi kaho kya karna hai Ab kaise paar utarna hai Ab kaise paar utarna hai (Now tell me what we should do How…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
± 1000 BCE (Pre-colonial) Late Stone Age people (San/Tsam//Xam) teach their children how to hunt and gather food, skin animals, prepare and cook food and…
10 YEARS PROJECT
close Document 6 Africans' claims in South Africa 16 December 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
IntroductionThe 16 June 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
1854 15 May, The proclamation of the settlement of Durban into a Borough. The European population stands at 1,204. 1858 The Umzinto Sugar Company…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
Introduction King Ngqika and Prince Ndlambe led the Rharhabe people of the Amaxhosa in the early 19th century. Their relationship is of significance regarding…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
1920 February, The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, headed by Sir Johannes Lange, is appointed to inquire into laws concerning the right of Asiatics to trade and…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
Introduction In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of capitalism, however, we paid cursory attention to the racial character of that…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
The IEC announced that a record 48 political parties have successfully registered to contest the 2019 general elections. Most have been formed recently,…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
In 1912 Enoch Mgjimia, a lay preacher and independent evangelist, broke away from the Wesleyan Methodist Church and joined the Church of God and Saints of…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
Historians recognise the significance of popular struggles over the past 100 years. But debates among historians about their relationship to formal political…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1960-1969 1960 19 February, Dr Monty Naicker called for strength in resistance, citing the example of Patrice Lumumba of…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TIMELINE — 2011 – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma delivers the traditional ANC…
Doing Oral History
Edited by Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator…