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Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… and students embarked on the largest stayaway since the early 1960s. This remarkable action had a huge impact on … themselves at plant level. The economic…
The Atlantic slave trade
… to the Americas, across the Atlantic Ocean, was in the early 1500s. European, Arab and African merchants were now … slavery was an economic, not a…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Poqo leadership and operatives. Poqo’s activities in the early 1960s struck fear, particularly in townships, where it … Robben Island political prisoners…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… cause of 'Broederbond'. Callinicos writes that as early as the 1930s Afrikaans women were regarded as the main … and stands out not only because it was such…
EventThe National Library of South Africa is founded
… repository of not only medieval incunabula, but also early texts written in African languages, and correspondences …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… Channel on the way to France. The incident happened in the early hours of 21 February 1917, when another ship, the SS …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… across border abductions in this period, dating from the early 1960s when a number of opposition activists who had …
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… He published five books and two volumes of poems in the early 1930s, using the pseudonym of 'Herman Malan'. Mafeking …
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… Plain outside Cape Town. Boesak was elected UDF's patron. Early in 1986 the UDF became an umbrella organization for …
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… border blockade that had been imposed against Lesotho in early January 1986. Furthermore, 60 members of the African …
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
… of congenital defects that could possibly have led to his early death. Tutankhamen himself also went on to marry his …
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… of exhibition space depicting aspects of the region’s early history. Visit the Old Court House Museum, just a …
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… for picnics, camping, birding, fishing and boating. The early morning mists that tend to cover the Dam lend a …
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… The racial hierarchical division of labour in the early mining industry (which paved the way for similar … born of increasing herds of cattle. However, it…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… of political philosophy. While Joshua’s main interest is Early Modern thought, much of his research tracks the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… In this period early African political organisations were formed; these …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… The institution of traditional leadership represents an early form of societal organisation. It embodies the …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… Campaign. As the number of Black students increased in the early 80s, these students constituted a social category that …
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… off the Congo Society’s access to the Atlantic. By the early 1880s European interest in Africa had increased …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… AZAPO, he continued to call for united resistance in the early 1980s. At the same time, the ANC started realising the …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… and put on trial for high treason. The swoop came in the early hours of the morning of 5 December and was executed …
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… Early Humans : Considerable evidence indicates that about … reorganizational measures enacted by the French Parliament early in 1957. In addition to removing…
PlaceSt Paul’s Anglican Church, Main Road, Rondebosch
… the Buildings also appear in Sketches, Water-Colours and early Photographs. There is a Photograph taken some time … might represent the School erected on the…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… later one - now vandalised - possibly still in use in the early 1800s. But by mid century there was a rudimentary Boer … later one - now vandalised -…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… dislocation of black social and economic life in the early twentieth century, the question of votes for women … the conditions of frontier life but from the…
PlaceKranshoek, Western Cape
… Eden District Municipality. Kranshoek was founded in the early years of the 20th century by a group of Griqua trekkers … Church. A local monument, erected in…
South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project - 2018 Submissions
… State University, class of 2019. She is a double major in Early Childhood Education and History, with a minor in Irish …
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… and the youth league has an importance in the early 50s. Taylor: So where do you see the influence for … of the radical youth leaguers of the late 40s and…
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… 2014, it records the History the Parish Church from as early as 1810 to the Present day. The first built Anglican …
Place'Agoada de Saldanha', Saldanha
… Early Portuguese name in 1503, of Table Bay . Meaning …