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ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… In September 1915, the Union Government offered to raise an infantry battalion of Cape Coloured men for service in the First World War. A strict selection…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… and dedicated her life to fighting for equality in both Somuth Africa and America Key Words: Miriam Makeba, … her life to fighting for civil rights. She was…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… group which represents many traditional leaders and chiefs in South Africa. It seeks to work with the South African … of traditional leadership under the…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… close Document 6 Africans' claims in South Africa 16 December 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic … of Rights,' adopted by the ANC Annual Conference.) Preface In…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its … consider whether to abandon…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… did not begin with the passing of the Native Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the expansion of Dutch colonial settlements in the Cape . Land and livestock…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… In January 1986, the UDF met the African National Congress (ANC) for talks in Stockholm. It was at these talks that the position and … and made decisions…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… © Museum Africa. The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre , in 1960,…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, … and not connected to other school…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo district of the Transkei. 1900 Xuma attends the Wesleyan Mission…
ArticleThe missionaries
… Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku , the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from … within his kingdom. The missionaries were first given land in…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… of the struggle against racial oppression and exclusion in South Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle … exploitation. The emergence of trade…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre , in 1960, signalled the…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… African Student Movement, and was enlarged and renamed, in 1972, as SASM. It came to national prominence when its … of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction,…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… structures governing hundreds of thousands of subjects. In other areas, political systems were smaller and weaker, … relying on agreements between people at…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the United Nations Unit on Apartheid in 1971 1 The…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… account of standard or habits of life. The Act, as amended in 1913 and 1937, prohibits all immigration of Asians to … of wives and minor children of those…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in Mitchells Plain. Steps towards forming the UDF began in the late 1970s, and moved forward when…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside … targeting mainly ANC safe houses, activists and camps. In…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… periods of time, working under contract on the mines. In both town and rural areas the traditional pattern of the African family was destroyed, and this, in…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… make recommendations on a definition of political offences in the South African situation; to discuss, in this regard, time scales; and to advise on norms…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… at between 300,000 and as many as 1 million. They lived in small communities with social and religious customs in common. Like all other societies, their…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… Mandla Langa was born in apartheid South Africa in 1950. His family, friends, and his own life were made in and developed by this program that killed,…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… The date, December 16, holds a special significance in South African history. On this day in 1838, the Voortrekkers fought a battle for survival … was a…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… the apartheid era. He played for almost his entire career in exile before passing away in West Berlin, Germany at the age of 39. Dyani actively … African…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… by our historic National Conference held at Lobatsi in November last year. The Conference was not significant … first national conference since the banning…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… the most terrible and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways shaped the history of 20th Century South…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… revolutionary upheaval and a worldwide influenza pandemic. In July 1918, when Mandela was born, the First World War was still raging with no end in sight. In…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… Aisha Ahmed Aisha Ahmed was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Currently a freshman at Southern Methodist University, She is majoring in history and biology…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… Awards In 1960, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee made history by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Luthuli in recognition of his outstanding…