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BiographyEmil Sachs
… 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to … to assist the unemployed. The first…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… Stellenbosch University the 2nd of the Universities in the picture in the Banner. With an … facilities in subsequent year. Under the 1916 University Act of…
BiographyArnold Selby
… when not many whites were prepared to face the hazards of joining the struggle for the rights of the black majority, … his banning in 1953 under the…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted … convention in reaction to the…
CONFERMENT OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HONORIS CAUSA UPON FATIMA MEER
… CONFERMENT OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HONORIS CAUSA UPON FATIMA MEER …
ArticleLives of Courage
… The writing of the history of the Liberation Struggle only began in earnest after 1994 with the establishment of the new democratic government and the…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs The … and the North West Province and is also called the Cradle of Humankind…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
… Gauteng , in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters and a brother. Her father was the nephew of … 1976 she was arrested under the…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. … divide and rule South Africa, this is…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch
… Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch …
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
… Imam Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He … Cassiem and his teacher were charged under the Sabotage Act…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He has played the role of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… inferior ‘tribes’ and thus should practise traditions in ‘native’ reserves. Whilst, on the other hand, in the settler … expanding commercial farms. In 1913,…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu. He attended the local primary … a clerk in the Social…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… to happen bywoner - a tenant farmer who laboured for the land owner in return for the right to cultivate a piece of … Cape Province from the common voters…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… short of labour at the Cape. The Khoikhoi had lost their land to the colonisers in the late 1700’s and were forced to … area of discrimination and in 1911…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu … Times in March 1930 set out five…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… In May 1918 a group of fourteen railway clerks, clergymen and policemen formed an … was renamed the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). The formation of the AB was…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… A Brief Overview The People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was an armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), the … secondly, it…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… task that must be completed in this section (part of the curriculum) New identities: Human Rights for all The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… The history of four years of the revolutionary multi-racial union in … these men are the bed rock of South African capitalism. By 1913, there are nearly 40…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… Context: The Emergence of a Pan-African Rhetoric The Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established on 25 May 1963, was the … Charter. It was…
David Pratt
… Gauteng). His father had business interests in a range of companies that included the Electricity Supply Commission … on sound authority’ that the attack on…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
… African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the late … on the CPSA district committee for…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban … 1950s. In 1950, following the Suppression of Communism Act , the…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to … Bantu education, and forced removals under the Group Areas Act. The massacre of unarmed…
BiographyJack Monamudi Matsepe
… by ‘leftist elements.’ It had already led to the death of Lucas Scott, a ‘Bantu Information Assistant’ in the … part of the district. He subsequently…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… of other legal, urban, ‘non-white’ living areas. 1927 The Native Urban Areas Act is passed. 1930 'Africans' are moved out of the south of … passed. The…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter II - Functions of the Missionary
… they all had a common aim: the confiscation of the land and the establishment of White supremacy. The … the negotiations between the Governor and the chief;…
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
… in 1924. He was involved in the Springbok Legion a sort of an auxiliary body, although he was not in the army. Since … Bill, subsequently known as the…