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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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… movement. There are many varieties of Pan-Africanism. In its narrowest interpretation, Pan-Africanists envision a … nation where all people of the African…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… by Mbongeni Ngema depicted students who were involved in the Soweto Student uprising on 16 June 1976. It was … and memorialising the June 16 Soweto uprising…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… History reveals that there is evidence of YCL activities in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 1921. Edward Roux , who was to play a leading role in the affairs…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… account of standard or habits of life. The Act as amended in 1913 and 1937 excludes all Immigration of Asians to South … of wives and minor children of those…