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ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… at Boons or Molote. This feature explores the history of Bakwena ba Mogopa, who, on the eve of the promulgation of the Natives Land Act of 1913 bought ……
EventPres Mandela's testimony in SARFU affairs set aside
… In providing reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into South African Rugby Football … of…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (now known as KwaZulu Natal – KZN) saw a … of workers with an evocative description of culture…
Melinda Stuurman
… tuition – I dropped out and decided to work for a couple of years and then continue my studies. I worked at SBH Cotton … regret it for one moment. I studied…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second … seems to have been abandoned fairly…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… Cape Town, 1st April, 1929 1 There are times when leaders of people, especially political leaders, should endeavour to … man for the first time in the…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… UNO South Africa and apartheid was placed on the agenda of the United Nations for the first time in 1946 by India regarding the treatment of people of Indian…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… the New National Party (NNP), was disbanded and some of its members joined the ANC. NNP leader Marthinus van … resigns from his position as Member of…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being incarcerated due to petty and severe apartheid laws. Between the 1960s and the unbanning of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the summit on rural Safety and Security Midrand, 10 October 1998
… Chairpersons Members of the Cabinet Delegates Other than our legislative bodies, … the deliberations. I would also like to thank you all for being here. Your…
Grade 4 Archive
… that is no longer required in the curriculum. Origins of major world religions reflected in SA: Religion is an important part of millions of people's lives…
ArticleMaritime history and heritage: shipwrecks
… Shipwrecks have always held a specific allure. The promise of hidden treasure, the unexplored and underwater adventure … provide maritime archaeologists with…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… and young workers who shared the interests and aspirations of COSAS but could not belong to it. In 1982, a COSAS … Commission was established to investigate…
84. The South African Indian Council: A. Rajbansi’s opening speech, 1982
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … would look upon the S.A.I.C. 'as the only representative body…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West … seriously injured. Following the open…
PlaceMorgan Bay-Gxarha
… The Eastern Cape Wild Coast runs along a rugged coast of untouched shorelines, Shipwrecks and traditional Xhosa … Bay Hotel; has a climbing wall and mountain…
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… that followed, four White people were killed. The Campaign of Defiance of Unjust Laws (commonly known as Defiance Campaign) started … killed two White people…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… Girls’ College. She then went on to receive a Master of Arts degree from Natal University, which is now the … time. He was quoted saying “What is urgently…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.1 1992
… Contents and Contributors comment-AW Oliphant, Fragments of a dream by Zachoriah Rapola, The House of Raydon by Patrick Sekhula, Independence by EM Macphail,…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… This article was written by Jerry Saena and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … which assisted with her important role in…
ArticleBambatha Rebellion 1906
… In mid 1906, the Natal colonialist in the face of rising Zulu resentment against the imposition of a 'Poll Tax' unleashed one of the most brutal and bloody ……
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… mass meeting was called in Lenasia, an Indian suburb south of Johannesburg. The purpose of the meeting was to mobilse the Indian community to boycott … South…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary … representation for Coloureds and…
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
… organisations led to NAPAC going through a process of transformation and between 1993 and 1994 it was restructured. This in turn led to many being retrenched…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… his wife Hawa, in Schweizer Reneke, . He is the fourth of six children. Ironically, the midwife who delivered … midwife known as Ouma Oosthuizen. 1938…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… sportspersons and administrators were in the vanguard of this front of the anti-apartheid struggle. I would like to … Table Tennis Board (SATTB) in 1956 and…
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… Principal Town of the Magisterial District and Division of George, on the … of Commissioners was elected in 1837, and from 1884 this body was called the…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African … to confine them to the nominally self-governing…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela on Women’s Day, Pretoria, 9 August 1996
… Ministers; Guests; Friends and compatriots. When the women of South Africa converged on these Union Buildings forty … South Africans, particularly women, to…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… the world like around 1600? Europe is considered as one of the world’s major super powers which played a significant … topic one, which is The World Around…