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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),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… In the following years, the African National Congress (ANC) … the government and called for changes, participated in the 1919 anti-pass campaign, and…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an … Bolton, Secretary of the furniture and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… by Max Coleman, (Cape Town) Repressive regimes abound in the historical record but few can have raised repression to the level of an art form in the way that…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… The passive resistance campaigns led by MK Gandhi in South Africa had huge consequences not only for the history of the country but also for world history in…