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Griqua community
… people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, however their history had an important influence on the history and development of…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… South Africa is a country of relative prosperity, with vast resources and a modern … and widespread poverty and deep inequalities - the legacy of apartheid…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… Following the wave of independence which swept the African continent in the … Although this was one motivation for the establishment of the Organisation of…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… with different ideological and theoretical views. One of these views was towards a more more Africanist approach. … means to suppress the liberation struggle…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… Students Representative Council (SSRC) . Recent accounts of the event suggest that the SSRC was motivated and guided by underground networks of the African…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… Portuguese expansion into Africa began with the desire of King John I to gain access to the gold-producing areas of West Africa. The trans-Saharan trade…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… similar wealth that had drawn Europeans to the rest of the continent. By then, South Africa had no known gold … in West Africa in the fifteenth century. The…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… played a major role in shaping the history and diversity of Cape Town. Origins The exploration of the African continent in the fifteenth century and the…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State University…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… in the 1980s. From late 1984 onwards, a series of meetings between the exiled ANC and groupings from within … Afrikaners and big businessmen, but also…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… 1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The population of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… is fought and slavery is entrenched. Throughout the rest of the country Nguni and Sotho groups begin splitting, as a result of strengthening chiefdoms, into…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of the People in 1955, to take place. In 1956, their question … trial for high treason. The swoop…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly … Kruger who wanted to maintain…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… King Ngqika and Prince Ndlambe led the Rharhabe people of the Amaxhosa in the early 19 th century. Their relationship is of significance regarding the effect…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… weapons that are based on nuclear energy. The use of nuclear weapons reached its height with the outbreak of World War 1 and 2, as well as the Cold War. Tin…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances since … were forced to carry "permission"…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… united Democratic and non-racial society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… laws for women a these had been relaxed after the success of earlier resistance to passes. In the light of these events, the Bantu Women's League (BWL) was…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… in Transvaal (now Limpopo province). 1870 The death of the King of the Baostho Moshoeshoe I. 1878 Sekhukhuni at war with the … and British colonial…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were unbanned, hundreds of political activists…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… College. 1939 Huddleston joins the Anglican Order of the Community of Resurrection at Mirfield in West Yorkshire. 1939-1941 … 1943-1956 Huddleston is…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… mid-1870s by entrepreneurs from Gujarat on the west coast of India. Roughly 10,000 to 15,000 of indentured workers were Muslim, as were most of the 4,000…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… Democratic Movement merged. Under the combined leadership of Zach de Beer , Denis Worrall and Wynand Malan, the DP won 36 seats in Parliament in the general…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Worden points out that slavery “”¦became the mainstay of arable farming in the western districts, played a significant role in the functioning of Cape Town…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… offensives planned for that year. General Haig, commander of the British forces in France described the situation as … 35 000 Black South Africans had…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… This article was written by Claire Wilt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … missionary school, played a pivotal role…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… ● Federation of South African Women The Defiance Campaign of 1952 would catapult the ANC Women’s League into a new era of action and multi-party interaction…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… 1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes … She spent one year at Wits University and became…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… 1939 Govan Mbeki publishes "Transkei in the Making" a work of political analysis which is deeply critical of the system of local government in the Transkei…