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ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… elections in April 1994 and the African National Congress (ANC) won with a majority vote to head the government of national unity. In order to rebuild and…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… The emergence of South Africa's democracy in the 1990s The crisis of … to some extent, but also opposed the African National Congress (ANC) . Inkatha refused…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… and resistance to apartheid. Calls were made by the Indian Congress to reject the plans of the newly elected Nationalist government, but the drastic … to an…
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… By late February 1973, the spread of the strikes was the most significant development since … and the GFWBF was able to garner support from a network of…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary … representation for Coloureds and…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Glossary
… from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ . In case of a definition accessed from a different source or website, … referring to a Bolshevik, one is referring…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the conflict … belief that he was either PAC…
Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State, Frank Wisner, on questions affecting South West Africa and Angola: Cape Town, 13 March 1986
… Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United … and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State, Frank Wisner, on…
ArchiveEstablishing the Constitutional Assembly
… Constitutional Principles entrenched in the first stage of negotiations and that the Constitutional Court would then … led by Cyril Ramaphosa. Here, we look…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
… 2009 February 2009, the University of Limpopo in Limpopo Province experienced student protests … The protest was instigated by South African Student Congress…
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… link with the Black Sash, an activist organisation of women voters, which therefore excluded black women since … August the Federation called a special…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… its homeland policy and the introduction of the Tricameral Parliament gave Coloured and Indian … Badsha attended a meeting of the TIC (Transvaal Indian…
Early Resistance, the 1913 Land Act and deputations to London
… first restriction that the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) aimed to contest was the 1913 Land Act, an … and deputations, but were not able to…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… On 2 February, F.W. De Klerk announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP), Pan Africanist Congress …
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… entry into other areas and into the urban areas is merely of a temporary nature and for economic reasons. In other … organisation of the African people is…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa." Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto … Soweto and all Black townships are…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together … It was Professor Matthews who had…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his … to the formation of the South African Native…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… This article was written by Meghan Knapp and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract The African National…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development of…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student … #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the decolonization of…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels, ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 … - Sol Plaatjie, first Secretary of…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Luthuli in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the non-violent resistance … of oppression and of outlawing the…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… fathers. 1882 Kasturba and Mohandas are married at the age of thirteen. Kasturba moves in with the Gandhi family in … Bill. 1894 August 22, Creation of the…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… to a flourishing industrial economy with the development of many new secondary industries in its aftermath. By this … more militant with the formation,…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… in exile. 17 February, African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) members, Armstrong Madoda, Gaby … at the Bolton Hall, Durban to revive…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… The first National Consultative Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 … the world over. This is the order to our leaders;…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… Soweto student uprisings have also inspired the production of plays including Sarafina which went on to play on … an internal wing of the then banned Pan…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… riots broke out in the Transvaal and spread to other parts of the country. These riots continued until 1986, when the African National Congress (ANC) called…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… Year Date Name Affiliation Place of death Description 1984 15 July Ngalo, Johannes (26) … accusations. 3 July Muggels, Mzwandile (20) Karoo Youth…