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EventGandhi leaves South Africa
… Mohandas Gandhi, after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance in this country, finally left from Cape … between Gandhi and Gen J.C. Smuts led…
ArticleSilverton Siege
… In an attempt to escape, they took refuge in a branch of Volkskas Bank in Silverton, Pretoria. They held 25 civilians in the bank hostage, making a number of…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after the banning of the ANC and PAC, the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) … in South Africa – at first through the…
Opening remarks by President Jacob Zuma to the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on global sustainability - transforming the world in an era of global change, Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC, African Pavilion, Durban, 06 December 2011
… Excellencies Heads of State and Government, Prof Johan Rockström, Chair of the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, … an honor for me to…
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman South Africa can heave a collective sigh of relief…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view Where is the … whites, many of them associated with…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950, the African National Congress (Transvaal)…
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
… is confined to work among Africans in urban areas because of the following:- a) Being in touch with modem forms of … take up so as to sustain their interest…
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
… A case can reach the Constitutional Court in a variety of ways: as the result of an appeal from a judgment of the High Court or the Supreme … whether or not…
”Bridging the Gap Between White and Black in South Africa”. Address by Dr. A. B. Xuma at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extracts]
… South Africa”. Address by Dr. A. B. Xuma at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort …
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Babanango is located about 58 km North-West of Melmoth in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885,…
ArticlePoqo
… sabotage campaign. Unlike other resistance organisations of the time, such as uMkhonto we Sizwe , Poqo made no effort to avoid loss of life and was the most…
42nd African National Congress Conference: Resolutions, 20 December, 1953
… to make plans for and embark upon an immediate campaign of economic boycott directed against selected individual … undertakings and government enterprises…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… to fill the political vacuum. A movement based on the idea of being Black began to organize and educate the Black people … College campuses, Indian students…
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
… to add my voice to their criticisms than to deal with some of the oppositionists themselves. BLIND TO CONGRESS RACIALISM On the question of the elections…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), the youth wing of the African National Congress is formed. 1946 African … consequences, showing the increasing…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… by iKongo to reject tribal authorities and self-government of Transkei, initiated by the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951. During a protest gathering in the…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… 1835 Migration of disaffected Dutch farmers from the Cape Colony 1836 Louis … 1838 Trichardt reaches Delagoa Bay 1849 Treaty of Derdepoort signed by the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
… Ancient: Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. BC : Before Christ. Used in the … from your own country to live there…
The Court’s position in the justice system
… on constitutional matters. So its jurisdiction - the scope of its authority to hear cases - is restricted to … with decisions on constitutional matters…
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… presented to the Boer negotiators General J. C Smuts, one of the Boer negotiators, immediately deleted "ACT OF SURRENDER' on the title page and replaces it…
ArticleThe Transkei
… Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei , where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke ……
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… in Johannesburg Central Business District Within months of its establishment, Johannesburg experienced a surge of … the City Council of that time found…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… obtained his BA Honours degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Province (now Western Cape), South Africa and his PhD degree from the…
Document 48 - “The Anti-C.A.D. and the Trade Unions”, The Torch, 1 April 1958
… will be seen already from the discussions and resolutions of the Second Conference, held in 1944. Reporting on the … Bulletin No. 30 January 19th, 1944, said…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa, including the…
Pro Veritate
… a Christian monthly journal, reflects a theological point of view towards the ideologies of the ruling National Party. Christian viewpoints on such ……
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced to three years in prison. At the end of his sentence, Parliament enacted…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… was assassinated and his body was severely mutilated in an act of barbaric brutality on 19 November 1981. His murderers used … into his death found that his…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… The South African Reserve Bank was established in terms of the Currency and Banking Act, 1920 (Act No. 31 of 1920) in Parliament.This came into being after a…