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ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… and the Britons half heartedly shook hands both joined in declaring a political war on the black people by blocking … , appointed the South African Native…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… changed its name to the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923 - did not accomplish much to improve the lives of … Industrial and Commercial Workers Union …
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… to many of those who have visited Castle Good Hope in Cape Town at least once during the last fifty years. Young … rooms offered the viewer a sense of…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… surname is very often spelled 'Chief Luthuli'. It is so in his autobiography, which was prepared for publication by … not adhered to Chief Luthuli's…
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… " We are in danger of losing our history" A recent report on history and archaeology in schools offers compelling reasons for the teaching of … a quality we…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… UDF launch at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. Source: http://www.nelsonmandela.org In the late 1970s moves to form united front against apartheid were set in…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960 onwards. After the…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… 1924 5 December, Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe is born in Graaff-Reinet a town in the Cape Province. 1940 Sobukwe enrols at Healdtown … Sobukwe becomes…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into institutionalized racism unseen in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… UN General Assembly. Source: P. Joyce (2000), Suid-Afrika in die 20ste eeu Kaapstad: Struik, p.107. In September 1939, World War II broke out. In South…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took … background that Coloured politics took…
A new class struggle
… While historians are generally in agreement that the main anti-Indian feeling in South Africa was directed towards the merchant class, … the "indentured" and…
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… of Mzilikazi, the people who came to be called the Ndebele in Zimbabwe (originally of the Khumalo clan) broke away from their Zulu kindred in the 1820s and…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… Pondo people’s life. Pondo people had less trust and faith in their Chiefs since Chiefs proved they were willing to be … expense of their subjects. The…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… oldest kingdoms. These kingdoms played an important role in the development of trade and economic growth of the … African civilizations south of the Sahara…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… 1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the … Soweto 18 Black people were killed and Mandela stayed in a nurses' dormitory overnight where…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa by Marcus Garvey Introduction Over the years the African continent has and in many instances…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… dry surrounding farms. People had always built their homes in towns and cities along the banks of the Nile. The earliest … were Stone-Age hunter-gatherers…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… On 3 September the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town while protest demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most ……
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced … challenge: a…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical Boers who … of General Barry Hertzog, forming the…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Matriculation examination on his second attempt. Later in the year, he met two theosophists with whom he read … Attended meetings of Vegetarian Society but…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical Boers who … of General Barry Hertzog, forming the…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… 20 - 22, Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo attends a conference in Berlin on 'The joint struggle of the working class … a meeting of the African Communists and Workers…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… and policies. However, there are still glaring gaps in critical areas of the township's history that need to be … a need to explain how and why the NP…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… Mandela. 2006 February, The statue of Chief Makhado in Makhado (Luis Trichardt) in Limpopo is defaced. June, The statue of Chief Tshwane is … Howard Campus…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… who was frequently oppressed by the apartheid regime in South Africa. As a Coloured man in South Africa, Ibrahim was greatly restricted by segregation. He…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral homes in Africa The majority of the political activists of the … he had founded the Universal Negro…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to … Black communities on the Transvaal Highveld occupying land in what was considered “White South…
ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
… emerged from the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) movement in Somalia . The ICU began as a loose grouping of Sharia … were driven from Mogadishu and suffered heavy…