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ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized … a shift from the more entertaining stories…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… In the 1930s various trade unions from different backgrounds … (SATLC), popularly known as the Trade and Labour Council. In 1944 SATLC adopted the Workers…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… 1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish … a Bachelor of Arts (Social Science), receiving a first in…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… and votes for white women Until 1930 there were no women in South Africa who had the right to vote. It was felt that a women's place was in the home and that…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape … the women who pioneered the organisation had been…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… of Africa. Because it was issued with some variations in both of Münster's very popular works, Geographia … Hebrew at Heidelberg and then at Basel, where he…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the service of his people, a communist of world … internationalist who has played an effective role in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to … the appointment. Ezrom Kgobonyane Sebata…
Antony Kaminju
… Born in Nairobi, Kenya, 1972. Resides in Johannesburg. Studied at University of the Witwatersrand, … Polytechnic and the Market Photo Workshop. Has a BA(Hons…
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
… This section looks at the rise of the Basotho kingdom in the 19th Century. The people involved in this were the Basotho, the Boers and the British. Of … the…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the various groups in the four…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the territory … claimed and occupied by an expansionist…
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… The formation of the VOC in Netherlands in 1602 increased Dutch dominance of the in the maritime trade. Acting on behalf of the Dutch …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2012 submissions
… studying history and art history and hopes to work in a museum or auction house. Project: Evidence of State … University. As a Creative Writing major who…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… that had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was closer cooperation between the CPSA and the ANC, in contrast to the…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost … incomes with the help of women and children. Black women, in…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… their African Counterparts? Can song and the spoken word in a variety of languages make sense? Is there a soundscape lodged in the tonalities of string…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist … who changed the way Black people were represented in society…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and … Indian population of South Africa proved a…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… As the struggle for freedom reached a new intensity in the early fifties, the ANC saw the need for a clear … to record their demands so that they could be…
The War
… they were wrong. The two Boer republics that were involved in the conflict were the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. … troops occupied until 1902. The…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) was formed in 1953 at a Coloured People's Convention in Cape Town. The organisation aimed to unite Coloureds ……
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against racism, today known … younger generÂations could build. When…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth" (Plaatjie, S.T. (1916). Native Life in South Africa, London: PS King, p.21…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the … decline of the reserve economies. Full…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… is the birth place of the SANNC, which became the ANC in 1923, one of the largest organizations in later years to struggle for freedom and justice in South…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… or publications by African people played a critical role in giving them an alternative space to articulate their views. The emergence of a number of…
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… When the company allocated land to company employees in 1652 and 1657 with various incentives, they were not … already familiar with the practice of using…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia, on 21 December 1879. His father was a … serving several prison terms. He first met Vladimir Lenin in 1905. Stalin…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… (PAC) and other political organisations. This ushered in a new period in the history of the ANC and of the UDF . As the ANC moved … Africa, the UDF needed to…