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Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… a policy of statutory racial separation implemented after 1950, has resulted in what has become a prototypical model of … implementation of Apartheid Group…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… weakened the CNETU was the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. Most of the leaders of the trade unions were arrested …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… wa sallam]. He was brought to the Cape on April 06, 1780 as a "state prisoner" along with Callie Abdol Rauf, … Auwal Masjid: the first in South Africa 20 On…
PlaceHlobane, Zululand District Municipality
The name is of Zulu origin, it is said by some to mean ‘beautiful place’, and by others ‘place of dispute’. Roughly 26km east of Vryheid, lies the rural…
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… farmers were believed to be motivated by this slogan. On 26 July 1993 members of APLA opened fire on a congregation in …
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… 1947 White Springbok team tours Australia and New Zealand 1950 In Elisabethville, Belgian Congo, Katanga defeats the … was not mentioned at the FIFA Congress…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
The concepts of a nation state and a plural society are often seen to be at odds with one another. Jon Soske states, in his essay ‘The Impossible Concept:…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… their right of the African voters in the Eastern Cape. In 1950 the Nationalist Party headed by DF Malan changed the …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… ‘Berlin Blockade’ begins 1949 : July, NATO is ratified 1950 : February, McCarthy begins communist witchunt 1954 : …
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
A turning point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, including the formation of the PAC,…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… Jackson Primary School which first opened its doors on 26 January 1942 on the corner of Pearson Street and Belmont …
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… to boycott the first democratic elections scheduled for 26 to 28 April 1994. There had been a walkout and threats of …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… keeping its end of the agreement, the Accord collapsed. On 26 May 1988 the two countries agreed to revive the Nkomati …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… the NP in the Transvaal was formed. This took place on 26 August 1914 in the Erasmus Hall in Pretoria. The NP …
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
Dorkay House, a building at the south end of Eloff Street in downtown Johannesburg, functioned as the headquarters for the Union of South African Artists,…
PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
The Victorian Rotunda, a landmark in Camps Bay, is a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of high society in Cape Town at the turn of the…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… – 1949 Chapter 3 University Chapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 Chapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance Chapter 6 …
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
Oral interview with Peter Donald Hjul who was a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern Rhodesia in 1929,…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… [online] Available at www.sanef.org.za[Accessed: 06 July 2011] Anon, (n.d.), ‘Nathaniel Nakasa’from Pipl [online] Available at www.pipl.com[Accessed: 06 July…
Document 66 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 21 February 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 66 - Letter from the Workers' …
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… house arrest under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. Sobukwe was therefore prohibited from taking part in …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
African National Congress (ANC) stalwart, Albertina Sisulu, a wife to former ANC Secretary, Walter Sisulu died at her Linden home, Johannesburg at the age of…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of this was the hated pass law. This forced Black people to carry…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… briefly and bartered for cattle with the Khoikhoi on 26 November 1497. With the discovery of the route to India, …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… in South Africa or to return to India. By 1910, nearly 26.85% indentured men returned to India, but most chose to …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… of imprisonment is released from prison. He had served 26 years. On the eve of his release, Mandela requested a … by members of the PAC’s armed wing APLA…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… interviews: Buthelezi, E. ”“ 01.07.2013 Cele, MTC ”“ 10.06.2013 Myeza, TQ ”“ 10.06.2013 Ndlovu, BI ”“ 01.07.2013 Ndlovu, SS ”“ 10.06.2013 Nyathi, G ”“ 08.01…
EventDeath in detention of Ahmed Timol
Ahmed Timol was born on the 3rd November 1941 in Breyten in current-day Mpumalanga. He grew up in Roodepoort and trained as a teacher. In 1964 he attended the…