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ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… unify the hundreds of Anti-Apartheid movements occurring in the 1980s. Female leaders such as Albertina Sisulu and … Strong and Unnoticed: The Women of the…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… The San © www.safrica.info In the late 17th and early 18th century the Dutch at the Cape … moved further north to colonise more land to cultivate in order to…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… In July 1967, the University Christian Movement (UCM) held its founding congress in Grahamstown, with about 90 clergymen and students in attendance. The…
Doing Oral History
… the Oral History Workshop held from 20-22 February 2007 in Durban. The workshop was an initiative of the Department … The purpose of the workshop, attended…
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…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… forms of struggle constitute the weapons of the oppressed in our country against the oppressor. How can we intensify … consideration and solution. Our…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…