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BiographyBilly Modise
… was born on 8 December 1930 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). He received an Anglican scholarship which … which forced black…
BiographyAnthony Sampson
… with then editor Jim Bailey, Sampson became editor of Drum magazine in Johannesburg. During this time, Sampson … In these works he focused on an explanation…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 … to deal effectively with any acts of opposition to the state. It is a…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… Towards Union It is often assumed that the discovery of gold at the Rand was the chief cause of the South African War. This is not completely true, as ……
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… as Mountain View in English), in the Vryheid district of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), where his parents – Andreas and … (ATASA), which took place in…
Durban listing of mayors
… This list is listed in chronological order, listing mayors of Durban, starting from 1854 to date . Dr. John … Durban listing of mayors …
BiographyAndries Hendrik Potgieter
… Graaff Reinet district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of Petronella … Frontier War. Potgieter moved inland to the…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… ideology and politics, I now examine particular aspects of its organisation. Specifically, I focus on its structure … by reform initiatives on the part of…
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 … in a rural area. Women played a large…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… celebrates Human Rights Day. This day is a commemoration of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and how far the nation has come in the protection of fundamental…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in … Early beginnings In the 1920s and 1930s the urban culture of…
Siva Pillay
… attack in Natal on 16 December 1961. However, due to one of their members (Bruno Mtolo), a police spy, the group of 19 … to violently damage the property of…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Swaziland Education : High School, Polokwane University of Fort Hare :English Degree Rhodes University : Teaching … Themba and his people, found their lives…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… “The time comes in the life of a nation when there remain only two choices –submit or … building on prior oppression unleashed by the apartheid state to…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… president in absentia. The organisation developed out of a situation of racial exclusion and discrimination under … As a result of the Sharpeville massacre…
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… EXHIBITION AND CATALOGUE purport to mark the centenary of the founding of the South African Society of Artists (SASA) in 1902, it is actually the Society's ……
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… On June 16, 1976, as we all know, the children of Soweto, Mamelodi, Gugulethu and other areas rose united in … martyrs were not in vain. The declaration of…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana … Cape voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje , a…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… some time in the 1950s was Durban branch editor-manager of the left-wing newspaper New Age . In the 1940s he was one of those responsible for bringing…
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
… He grew up in Pinelands, Cape Town, but moved at the age of nine to live with his aunt, outside Hobhouse, Eastern Free State after his father died. Eglin…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
… enlarger advertised in the under-R20 column in one of the Cape newspapers. In 1985, Meintjes went to study at … of purpose to address the injustices of the…
ArchiveIsizwe the nation: Journal of the United Democratic Front Volume 1 Number 1, 1985
… Journal of the United Democratic Front discussing: tasks of the UDF in the state of emergency, convention alliance, on discipline, unemployment … Isizwe the…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million … AD 1450), a few Northern Nguni moved up onto…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Congress and the African National Congress were banned; a state…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… 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…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… Scanned in copy of the last page of the Treaty of Vereeniging, click to … the previously separate colonies of the Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal and the…
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Confederation of British industry
… Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Confederation of British industry …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… Coming Revolution’, Julius Malema had earned the title of Commander-in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters when he was still the … the ANC’s 53rd…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
… This Way I Salute You September 2007 Oswald Mtshali Sounds of A Cowhide Drum, Renoster Press 1971 Fireflames 1980 … Poetry, ed. Michael Chapman …
Education, the State, and Class Inequality: The case for Free Higher Education in South Africa by Enver Motala, Salim Vally, and Rasigan Maharajh
… Education, the State, and Class Inequality: The case for Free Higher …