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Control: 1910 - 1948
Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’…
PlaceOuteniqua Pass-N9
… enjoy the views." "Very cool views. I think there were 3 places to stop and park, each with picnic tables. If you …
PlaceHelderberg, Somerset West
The district takes its name from the mountain of the same name, which is Afrikaans for: "clear mountain". This is referring to the way in which the western…
PlaceDzata Venda Ruins and Museum of the Drum, Louis Trichardt
The Dzata Ruins (or Dzana ruins) are an archaeological site in Dzanani in the Makhado municipality, Vhembe district, in the north of South Africa. Scholars who…
PlaceDundonald, East Mpumalanga
MPUMALANGA - Dundonald is located in the Gert Sibande district municipality east Mpumalanga. It was part of the former homeland KaNgwane established under…
PlaceWinnie Mandela Drive, Johannesburg
The road was named after William Nicol, the Administrator of the Transvaal, at the time of construction. It was changed in 2024 to the: 'Winnie Mandela Drive'…
PlaceBlaauwberg Nature Reserve, Melkbosstrand
Cape Town is unique due to its high concentration of local flora and fauna species. The Blaauwberg Nature Reserve protects and conserves, one of the City’s-…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… and frightened communities left their own areas in places like the Orange Free State , Natal , and the Transvaal …
The Detention Weapon
… of deaths 3. Ages/gender/occupations of detainees 4. Places of death 5. Length of detention before death 6. Causes … activists in both township and rural…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
Chinese civilisation stretches back to least 2000 BC. It became a single empire in 221 BC. [1] China was ruled by a series of dynasties until 1911 and from…
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
Isadore W. Schlesinger made his home in South Africa after the Boer war, and founded several insurance companies. He pioneered the mass media in this country,…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
The Bambatha Rebellion claimed the lives of 4000 Zulu and 30 white people and cost the colonial government £740,000. Some of the Zulu died fighting on the side…
ArticleCommercial, Catering & Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA)
SACCAWU was founded as CCAWUSA (The Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union of South Africa) in 1975, with Emma Mashinini as the general secretary and M…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 4: Co-operation and conflict on the frontiers of the Cape Colony in the early 19th century
British arrival and the expanding frontier A frontier marks the edge of a known area, but a frontier is not a formal border. A frontier can lie on a boundary,…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
The WEAU and votes for white women Until 1930 there were no women in South Africa who had the right to vote. It was felt that a women's place was in the…
Apartheid-Crime in aftermath of democratic elections May 1994, December 1996
IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a …
Introduction
IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important throughout apartheid. The South African government needed to rely on the external…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local people…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… children could not go to school because there were no places for all of them, and the amount spent on them by the …
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… and...? TAMBO: We will not go into cinemas and bars and places like that. We won't do that. But we will certainly be …
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… towns can become inclusive, resource efficient and good places to live in over the next 20 to 30 years. Together let …
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… at that time, that would make you to say this guy is going places. Q: You were in London during the Rivonia Trial. Were …
Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)
The Institute for Industrial Education (IIE) was founded in Durban, in May 1973, to serve as a school for trade unionists of all races and to provide basic…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
PlaceFugard Theatre, Cape Town
The Fugard, a theatre based in Cape Town, was built within one of the five interconnected Sacks Futeran buildings in District Six.[1] It opened in early…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
Date of birth: 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendants of original colonists…