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Pretoria the Segregated city
… was systematised. The intention of the National Party in 1948 was to reinforce constitutionally the segregation of … Mandela wrote: “Apartheid”¦”¦represented…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg in connection with the agitation at present going on in the Transvaal against the…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… was bewildering and the transition unexpectedly confusing. In “solitary” I was unable to communicate with family, … was contrasted by an endless need to talk…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… years. This was largely due to colonial expansion which in turn dispossessed Xhosa and Khoikhoi people of their land … were incidents of minor skirmishes…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… to as the Cold War. This lesson will focus on the change in the balance of power after World War II and rivalry … tension between the Allies after the end of…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… 1908 23 April, Abram (Bram) Fischer is born in Orange Free State to an auspicious family that includes … and the only Prime Minister of the Orange River…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… of apartheid, from the colonial occupation of the Cape in 1652 through the creation of the Union of South Africa and … stock soon degenerated into raiding…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… Strikes in the Schools Presumably, not all students of the earlier … recorded stoppages of lessons, (always called strikes in the South African newspapers),…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… the emergence of the Council of Non-European Trade Unions in the next decade The formation of the Council of Non-European Trade Unions. World War II In 1941…
The Atlantic slave trade
… colonies that European countries were starting to develop. In America, for instance, which was a colony of England, … so the colonisers turned to Africa to…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… 1930 White women get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from … for this are to decrease prostitution and illegal…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion Christian Church [i] . Its members, … estimated to number between 2 million…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and … increased introduction of racist and repressive laws, and in 1949 adopted the Programme of Action…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… 1869 April, Kasturba Kapadia is born in Porbandar, in present-day Gujarat. 1876 Kasturba Kapadia and Mohandas … are married at the age of thirteen. Kasturba…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… ex-Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) members in the Western Cape began organising themselves from as early … 1978 and eventually formed the United…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… Formed in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs , this was a union of … workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and 1930s,…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… When the Dutch settled in South Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries they transplanted their Dutch … the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of South Africa in 1652…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… the government intended to accuse the leading activists in the congresses of treason. After the COP the charge of … cynicism: “With every fresh raid, it has…
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… of Rights an independent judiciary a federal Constitution in which the powers of the provinces would be … members of the Progressive Party saw their ideals…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… It was adopted at the inaugural conference and included in the final report of the conference. Preamble: We, the … that discriminate against us as women, and…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to … Despite evidence to the contrary a…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… provides a brief introductory overview of the settlements in the Limpopo Valley before Mapungubwe, and a brief … of a much larger political scale than had…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… at the Cape 1652 The DEIC (Dutch East India Company) in the Netherlands was set up in 1602 to trade. In 1647, the Haerlem, a Dutch trading ship, was…
The National Tree
… The Yellowwood family is primeval and has been present in this part of Africa for more than 100 million years. The … Table Mountain, along the southern and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… In this period early African political organisations were … to register 600 of their followers. 1886 African voters in the Eastern Cape increase from 1150 to…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… the City is an annual arts festival that takes place in communal areas of Cape Town and Mbombela, Mpumalanga, … both South African as well as international…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… In September 1984, riots broke out in the Transvaal and spread to other parts of the country. … country ungovernable. A State of Emergency was declared in…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 … became the country’s leading party…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… to the 1660s. When Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape in 1652, he had with him a small contingent of soldiers, … attacks from the original inhabitants of…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… Britain was getting more confident about taking action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial … Rhodes to try to develop and promote the…