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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… It was first expressed by a Xhosa missionary, Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. Tension became more pronounced with the Freedom Charter , which was accepted…
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…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… lies beyond just its periodical occurrence. By taking in the whole context, from prior to the events and … one can grasp themes and factors that could be…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… Verdun begins. Verdun, a French fortress town, was located in the western shadow of the Meuse river, close to the … significance to the French as it was the…
Safety and security issues
… of domestic violence has always been alarmingly high in South Africa. Though domestic violence is not limited to … that women are most affected by this form…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… Timeline: 1970-1979 1970 HA Naidoo passes away while still in exile. 17 February, African Peoples Democratic Union of … Organisation of Journalists (OIJ)…