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ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… formed in Cape Town after World War I, with a membership of 24. The Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) absorbs a number of other nascent worker…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 28 May 1957 The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable Sir, At a time when in many respects our country…
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Harry Escombe became one of the most prominent White politicians in the Colony of Natal. Initially he pursued a…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… After the end of apartheid, as well as the release of political prisoners in the early 90s and the country’s … in 1994, South Africa witnessed the…
Liberation
… "We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare … world to know. We are the people who have borne the brunt of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… Land restitution is one of the key issues since South Africa achieved democracy in 1994 and as such an overview of what has been achieved since the…
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…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women Johannesburg, 17 April 1954. The Charter expressed the philosophy and aims of the…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… Context As the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) , founded in 1963, was established as a loose association of African states with limited mechanisms for…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela leads an anti-pass demonstration resulting in the burning of…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the Congress of the People (COP) from which it emanated, had so much…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… The Nile river and its influence on settlement The tomb of Tutankhamen Way of life in ancient Egypt The spread of Egypt’s knowledge Together we will learn…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… After the advent of democratic rule in 1994, the newly elected ANC led government was faced with the task of dealing with a legacy of centuries of land…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to the Groote Schuur Minute . 2. The final report of the Working Group on political offences dated 21 May 1990, … by both parties. The guidelines to be…
A new class struggle
… the Colonists. According to CG Henning, the following list of twenty anti-Indian attitudes compiled by him, contains … real as well as imaginary complaints:…
ArticleThe Constitution
… South African Constitution of 1996 Republic of South Africa The Republic of South Africa is one, sovereign, democratic state founded …
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 feet in the bowels of the earth,…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… In the early days of the Free State, citizenship was limited to the White population only. This became part of the constitution in 1854, and included those…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… 9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban … in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. 1930 J.T. Gumede is voted out of office as…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
Khoisan Identity
… In his State of the Nation address on 9th February 2012, President Zuma … promise that provisions would be made ‘for the recognition of the Khoi-San…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… Far from being a united force for a significant part of the 1930s, the ANC was plagued by divisions and factionalism, evidenced by the frequency of change in…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… things to different people. Some people relate to the idea of heritage in a personal way, whilst others see it as having … significance. In this section, we…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… 1497 - 1699 1497 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da Gama sailed up the eastern seaboard of southern Africa,…
ArticleThe San
… The San populated South Africa long before the arrival of the Bantu-speaking nations, and thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. Language,…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… canon, there remains an ambiguity regarding the purpose of Lucy’s rape and her decision to marry her rapist’s … thought, the paper analyses the text’s…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… Amersfoort , arrived in Table Bay with a valuable cargo of 174 slaves. Henceforth, the Cape entered the global stage of slaveholding societies. Slavery in…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… is appointed to inquire into laws concerning the right of Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. … in February 1920 to inquire into laws…