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ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… When the Union of South Africa was established in 1910, there was already a … However, over time men and women resisted the imposition of passes as it…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… People as historical sources People can be great sources of information. By speaking to people we can learn about the past. Learners are also sources of…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… influenza pandemic broke out, that led to the deaths of 50 million people worldwide. The pandemic spread … America over a twelve-month period between the…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… follows up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter application of existing discriminatory legislation such…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State border, perched on top of the plateau, is the smallest, most charming-world renowned … church in the world. This tiny church…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… The year 1658 marks the beginning of the slave trade at the Cape colony. During the first four years of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) settlement at the…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… Liberia are recognized as independent entities. Partition of West Africa and East Africa 1896 Ethiopia, under Emperor … South Africa, is expelled from Fort…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… Africa from 1907 to 1914 for the security and dignity of the Indian settlers in that country who were subjected to … prison on December 10th. Miss Molteno…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… On behalf of the South African Indian Congress I express my … than submit. Savage sentences of up to twenty years are being served by members of my…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… extended a cordial welcome to the delegates on behalf of the local branch of the organisation, who, he said, … Hon. A. Lyttelton had said so. But man did not…
Mission Stations - M
… by Merensky did not take place, as he states, as a result of Mswati's death, which occurred in 1868, but because the Regent, Malambule, had retained some of…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… Introduction Nationalism refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It emphasises the collective of a…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… The EFF sees economic freedom as total ownership of economic and natural resources by the previously oppressed … own economic resources for the development…
Glossary: Transport through time
… talk about the period before Christ and before the fall of Rome in the year 476. Archaeologist Somebody who studies … used for sails and tents. Cargo Goods…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… Celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s life is an opportunity to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of his multi-faceted personality…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
… THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated agreements to bring an end to conflict and … precise to guarantee that the constitution…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … rejecting the South African Indian Council as a useless body,…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - … on the support of the white minority, had come into being. The United Party upheld…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… association before the agreement expired in the middle of August 1932, but these proved futile. The employers again … the strike continued on its stormy…
America, Spanish conquest
… Spain. (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them.) On his second voyage, … against the Aztecs. The Spanish were…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… POM We're talking with Mr. Gumede on the 21st of August. I recall when we talked the last time you had said … aim. POM So they are really seeing the…
ArchivePress statement on the Industrial Conciliation Act following a joint meeting between the Federation of S.A. Trade Unions, The Western Province General Workers Union, The Food and Canning Workers Union and The African Food and Canning Workers Union.
… Act following a joint meeting between the Federation of S.A. Trade Unions, The Western Province General Workers …
Address on South African Freedom Day 2001, Pietersburg, 27 April 2001
… Ngubane Mayor Thabo Makunyane Distinguished Guests People of the Northern Province: In the past seven years we have … get a better sense of the reality of…
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan … c) and acceptance of the…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan … c) and acceptance of the…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an … of that child's age; or place at risk the child's well-being,…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… is evacuated and the area burned to the ground. July, Most of the evacuees start moving back into the urban centre, mostly into the ‘Malay Location’, one of…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the walls. Now I have been outside the … I have nightmares about it. When I entered…
VIII - The Pathologists
… Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa The cause of death revealed in the medical evidence was not disputed. … He had performed a post mortem…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… the All Africa Convention (AAC) in Bloemfontein. Far from being a united force for a significant part of the 1930s, the ANC was plagued by divisions and ……