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ArticlePAC’s African Women’s Organisation
… of their conditions. The African Women's league was formed in April 1986 in Katlehong and has ever since played a significant role in campaigns such as the…
Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB)
… CAPAB was instituted to promote the performing arts in the Cape Province . Operational costs for CAPAB, the … Free State (PACOFS) were subsidised by the…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… walked out of the gates of Victor Verster Prison, a moment in our history that signalled perhaps more vividly than any … as government to drive collaboration…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… 108 years since its formation. We mark this occasion in the historic city of Kimberley in the Northern Cape, a … Africa. The institutions that we have…
ArticleSouthern African Development Community (SADC)
… African Development Community (SADC) was established in 1980 as the Southern African Development Coordination … adopting its current name during Windhoek…
ArticleSoweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC)
… the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in black schools. Tsietsi Mashinini who fled South Africa in 1977, led the SSRC. After Mashinini's…
Performing Arts Council of the Orange Free State (PACOFS)
… from Bloemfontein with Rex Hugo as the first director. In 1996, state subsidy was reduced and PACOFS became a … Today PACOFS is a playhouse and a flagship of…
George Hugo
… George Hugo obtained a National Diploma in graphic design and photography at Planet Pixl Brand Communication School, Bloemfontein in 2005. From 2006 he…
Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… Timbuktu is located near which major river in Africa ? The rulers of the Mali Empire were followers of what religion? Which was NOT used as currency in the…
Bonani Africa 2010 Awards
… , Alexia Webster, Rosendal High There are many essays in the Bonani Africa 2010 Exhibition that straddles the twin … and the margins is where many of the…
Passage to Natal - The Journey
… families. Sirdars (supervisors) were appointed to assist in the management of the passengers and assist in translation as the vast majority of the…
ArticleFederation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW)
… body Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and also in commemoration of Women's Day, August 9th . The federation … was regarded to be a necessary link…
Cape Floral Region
… A serial site - in Cape Province, South Africa - made up of eight protected … Cape Floral Region is one of the richest areas for plants in the world. It…
The National Fish
… coast. It keeps mostly to shallow water, is often found in rough surf right next to the shore and is commonly known … colour of the Galjoen is almost…
ArticleHuman evolution
… of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest proof of hominids has been discovered. Fossil evidence in East Africa…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… project has been realised . There has been so much said in certain quarters against the immigration of Coolies, as a … arrival of the new element. Mr Collins…
Protest Art
… The formation of the United Democratic Movement (UDF) in 1983 amalgamated many grassroot organisations under one … while serving the needs of all the UDF…
Learning about history through objects
… man. Archaeologists (who are the best history detectives in the world!) are people who look at these artefacts and can tell a lot about the people who left…
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… trade and sea routes. Before the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 the safest and most feasible sea route between Europe … tip of Africa, and South Africa…
ArticleRemembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists
… Malema have other ideas about freedom. Image Source IN SEVENTH HEAVEN: Struggle heroes Albertina and Walter Sisulu meet up again in this warm tribute by…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… 1977, the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko died while in the custody of security police. The period leading up to … 1976 unrest, had seen some of the…
Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigning (FAK)
… of Afrikaanse Kultuur Vereniginge (FAK) was established in 1929 as a branch of the Afrikaner Broederbond , a secret … the Afrikaner cause. The FAK played a…
ArticleThe “Wind of Change” speech
… must take account of it. ... As I see it, the great issue in this second half of the twentieth century is whether the … experiments of self-government that…
ArticleThe South African general elections: Introduction
… The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the self-governing British colonies of the … and the Transvaal denied all non-whites…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly … will never be prosperous or free until…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… of Free African Trade Unions (FFATU) disintegrated in the 1960's. It had 12 partners representing 45 000 … of properly organised, democratic trade union…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1940-1948
… 1940 - 1948 1942 August 9, Gandhi is arrested in the early hours of the morning under the Defence of India … Rules following the "Quit India" resolution and…
Noncedo Mathibela
… Born: Ladysmith, 1981. Resides in Cape Town. Received National Diploma in Photography from Cape Peninsula University of Technology. …
Cindy Waxa
… Born: Queenstown, Eastern Cape, 1982. Resides in Cape Town. Received National Diploma in Photography from Peninsula Technikon, Western Cape. …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 4: Medicine through time
… the two main types of indigenous or traditional healers in South Africa. Isangomas Isangomas are spiritual healers … who diagnose illness. People often visit…