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ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… meant something completely different. Its origin started in the Vedic period by Indo-Iranian people in India. The word was a self-designation and ethnic…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s
… are also extracted from the earth and land that is rich in gold or diamonds can has been the cause of conflict … control of certain areas of the world caused…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… who were detained under the Suppression of Communism Act, in May 1969, are acquitted. Three are released but others, … are re-detained and recharged. They…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been achieved. … largely as 'tribal areas'. Hut and poll taxes were…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… and the 1980s was a decade which became a turning point in South African history. Popular protest by masses of … Africans against the apartheid regime…
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… Escombe became one of the most prominent White politicians in the Colony of Natal. Initially he pursued a policy of moderation towards the Indians. Escombe…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… Terrorism Act reported abuse by police forces. Others died in detention. As law professor John Dugard wrote in 1978: ‘Although designed to combat terrorism,…
ArticleContemporary South African Artists
… For the month of August 2016, in honor of women, South Africa History Online (SAHO) began collaborating with Artthrob in an effort to highlight women…
Local Government
… them a mindset that was essentially rural and agrarian in nature. Their constitution of 1858 divided the country … Landdrost with “the supervision of the…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… newly founded Republic of France conquered the Netherlands in 1795. The Netherlands became known as the Batavian … Prince William of Orange, had to flee to…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… the Azanian Student Organisation (AZASO) was established in 1979 by students from five black universities and one … the Freedom Charter over the Black…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… The events at Lonmin Mine in Marikana in the North West Province were a tragic stain on the history … strike that threatened to destabilize the mining sector…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… site, webteam please select an image from there to insert in this section. South Africans of Indian origin comprise a … Indians arrived during the Dutch…
ArticleAfrapix
… of black and white photographers and political activists in 1981. This collective played a seminal role in the development of a socially informed school of…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… 1924 E.S. Reddy is born in a small village of Pallapalli in India to E.V. Narasa Reddy, a Gandhian who went to prison in the individual satyagraha in 1941,…
ArticleOFFICIAL LETTER FROM YASSER ARAFAT TO ANC PRESIDENT
… of the Declaration of Principles and mutual recognition. In the name of our Palestinian people, my brothers members of … Committee of the Palestine…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… would depend on how the reader defines the word "slavery." In ancient times, for example, under the Romans, a people defeated in war were usually taken over…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… In July 2001, The Landless People's Movement (LPM) was formed … by leaders of various landless people of South Africa in response to evictions of farm…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to participate. The … the dismantling of apartheid, which had…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively … Boer commandoes and armed block house guards, but also in non…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… In the 1940s the ANC rejuvenated itself and began to work … the antagonistic relationship between the two parties in the 1920s and 1930s. Two significant…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… Africa Two places are of particular heritage interest in the Polokwane area: the BaKoni Malapa Museum south of the stadium and Makapansgat in the mountains…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg prior to its dissolution. February, At an … throughout the Transvaal at the Gandhi…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in Sophiatown in particular. It was here that the most important …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… Students' Association, edited its handbook and played in its lawn tennis, table tennis and cricket teams. He excelled in ballroom dancing and was very pop…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… PHASE HISTORY - TERM 2 Topic: The first farmers in southern Africa Suggested contact time One term/15 hours … aims and skills and the associated concepts…
ArticleThe Transkei
… Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei , where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke…
ArticleThe Nile river and its influence on settlement
… climate peculiar to that country, and the Nile different in the way it behaves from rivers elsewhere, but the manners … before written history, people have…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… a political strike. December , A new leadership nurtured in the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) comes into power in the African National…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… The destruction of the Zulu kingdom 1879 -1896 In the 1870s settler and colonial determination to bring … African societies had achieved. This was due to…