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Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
1867 Diamonds discovered in Orange Free State and Kimberley. 1867 Diamond mining begins in Griqualand West. 1872 Introduction of pass laws to control…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
Land restitution is one of the key issues since South Africa achieved democracy in 1994 and as such an overview of what has been achieved since the…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
Ancient Egypt The ancient Egyptian civilisation grew for thousands of years intact because the Nile River Valley and Mediterranean and Red Sea border kept…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte. Source: www.historywiz.com A new absolute ruler After the fall of Robespierre in 1794, a new group of people took over the government…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
Slaves at the Cape were forced to carry passes. This made it easier for their owners and the local authorities to control their movements. The first time Pass…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
On 5 June 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). The following year its name was…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
Introduction Pretoria is located in the north east of South Africa, to the north of Gauteng, and 60 Kilometres away from the north east of Johannesburg [i] …
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
This period began with the intensification of the anti-pass campaign, which resulted in the banning of the ANC and the PAC following the Sharpeville Massacre…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been achieved. Other than a small, enfranchised minority who owned land,…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The 1950s had been a decade of protest, from the Defiance Campaign at the beginning to the Treason Trial victory…
PlaceGermiston
Germiston was established in the early days of the gold rush when two prospectors, namely John and Jack struck paydirt on the farm of 'Elandsfontein'. This in…
What are the challenges that face the South African film industry?
“People are looking for things that are easy and foreign. We use foreign models that militate against our very efforts to shape our ailing film industry. We…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
The mineral discoveries that launched its industrial revolution between the late 1860's and the end of the 1890's were crucial in the shaping of modern South…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
World opposition to Apartheid Enforced racial segregation in South Africa began with the arrival of the Dutch and English colonisers. Following its…
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
1955 The Freedom charter is adopted. This was the statement, charecterised by its demand that “ the people shall govern” that highlighted the main…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… it took 22 laps to equal one mile, and we always tried to cover at least one mile at a fast walking pace in each of our …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
1497 - 1699 1497 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da Gama sailed up the eastern seaboard of southern…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… People and to collect little by little the money needed to cover the delegate’s costs. At that time I was working on the …
Control: 1910 - 1948
Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Walker and Tom Lodge. According to Lodge,…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… pressure, cancer or diabetes could turn to the scheme to cover their doctors’ visits, hospital stays and medication. …