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ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… with today has its origin after the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902. Prior to the war each colony or Boer republic had … law enforcement organisation. With the…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… to the larger cities inland. Demands for segregation early in the 20th century resulted in the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923, which provided for … of…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench … and fighting the apartheid government was…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… Civic organisation also experienced problems in organising across the racial divide. Initially the emerging civic organisation in African township and…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Rand Daily Mail photographer, two of which were published in the and Daily Mail of 29 September 1962 and captioned: … period 1967 to 1976 marked the…
ArticleKey sites
… Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These included Simon’s Cafe, … restaurants. Later on came Victory Lounge. It was here in…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… In 1917 ordinary workers and rank and file soldiers overthrew the Tsarist autocracy that had been in power in Russia since the late 1400s. This became known…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground. The formation of the CPSA in 1921 was a turning point in…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… , the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa which was headed by Professor Francis … photographic project was one of the…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… proclamations and ordinances played a key role in legitimizing systematic land dispossession and segregating … other Asiatic we segregated and banned from…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… collapsed. You can read about the crisis of Apartheid in the 1980s in section 5 of the grade 12 material. The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union was…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2013 submissions
… Methodist University, where she is pursuing a double major in History and Human Rights. Born and raised in Texas, she would like to work for an international…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… Scramble for Africa. This British coined the term sometime in 1884, and it has since been used to describe the … powers were slow to realise the benefits of…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… accepted by both parties. The guidelines to be formulated in terms of the Report will be applied in dealing with members of all organisations, groupings or ……
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… brightest. What do 10 December 1961 , 1984 and 1993 have in common? 1961 - Albert Luthuli received the Nobel Peace … industrialist and inventor of dynamite,…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… and aspirations of COSAS but could not belong to it. In 1982, a COSAS Commission was established to investigate … establish their own youth congresses that…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… 1919 Peter Abrahams is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in March 1919 to an Ethiopian father and a Coloured mother. … away when he was young and Abrahams was…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival celebrated in honour of the Greek god Zeus in the town of Olympia. As far as could be established by … French…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… The Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… sometimes referred to as Rooikoppies (red hills), is based in Rustenburg, in the North West province of South Africa. The town was established in 1870 and…
Bantu Women’s League
… The Bantu Women's League was the first women's organisation in South Africa. It was started in 1918 by one of our earliest women activists, Dr Charlotte … of…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… I am a student at Principia College, a senior majoring in Political Science and minoring in Sociology and Anthropology. Project: Women Participation in…
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… Together with civic organizations, the youth played an in important role in the struggle against apartheid in the Western Cape. The first youth congress…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… van allerlei uiteenlopende elemente" which, "in uiterlike vorm eenheid probeer wys, maar wat innerlik … fusion will endure" Nine months later, after the…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2014 submissions
… Bohannon Andrew Bohannon is a sophomore at SMU, majoring in business. He is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota and … college football, fishing, and…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976, there … apartheid state. The riots also played an…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… Cape Once revolutionary armies of France invaded Holland in 1795, the British feared that the French would take … Holland became known as the Batavian…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly white, liberal universities. … University of the North and the…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… shores of Table Bay they came into contact with Khoikhoi. In the summer months the Khoikhoi moved around between the areas of Table Bay, Swartland and…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… 1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes for adults in her father's garage She spent one…