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ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… African. Africa, and being African, has become a core part of the identity of millions of the continent's inhabitants, but where does this word, to … Lewis,…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… his wife Hawa, in Schweizer Reneke, . He is the fourth of six children. Ironically, the midwife who delivered … midwife known as Ouma Oosthuizen. 1938…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… By the beginning of the twentieth century a number of political organisations initiated by Coloureds existed, most of which dealt with the question of the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others … the political mobilisation – for instance, the detention of Winnie Mandela…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… election which was to be decided by the white population of the country. A manifesto outlined how Apartheid would be … National Party (NP) when they won the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… 1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need … by William Edward Durghardt Du Bois. A…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… and young workers who shared the interests and aspirations of COSAS but could not belong to it. In 1982, a COSAS … Commission was established to investigate…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… anthem and a flag, and significantly adopting the Bill of Rights. Another significant development was the formation of the Communist Party of the South…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics … Segregated City, 1910 - 1948, The…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… "On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who … South…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… and Labrador. She is a Labrador Inuk and a beneficiary of the Nunatsiavut landclaim. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in African studies and philosophy in…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South … African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’. Apartheid built upon earlier laws, but made ……
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising that is also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt. It occurred during a period of economic…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… took place from 16 – 20 December 2007 at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane. This conference was remarkable as it signalled the fall from grace of the…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… campaigns against the government, as evidenced by a series of passive resistance campaigns such as the Alexandra bus … 1946. Conversely, there was an…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… this theory. Despite evidence to the contrary a number of parties in South Africa, particularly right-wing nationalists of European descent, maintain that…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… ourselves face to face with a gentleman about thirty years of age, with a long light beard. He looked at us at first … the following: "Thaba Bossiou…
ArticleNdebele
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa’s Black population and can be divided into … from Swaziland and adjacent areas and the…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… serious atrocities against the Black majority. A number of brutal measures were adopted by the regime to deal with … "offenders." Cases in point include the…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… research and for graduates to become familiar with the use of the web as a tool for research, thus contributing to the development of content for the website…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… A study of missionary settlement and the spread of Christianity in southern Africa during the period 1800 - 1925, including a piece on the role of…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… against black groups intact. The Immigrants Regulation Act of 1910 consolidates existing immigration laws of the pre-Union colonies and excludes immigration…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… person throughout the scandal. Dr. Mulder was the Minister of Information in John Vorster's government. Moreover, he was … in the scandal were, General…
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… BATTISS, JUNOD, FRANZ and GROSSERT . 1958. The Art of Africa . Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter. BEINART, Julian . Undated. The Popular Art of Africa …
ArticleWomens Rights
… It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal … African women -under the social and even legal…
ArticlePoverty and development
… One of the most important issues for women in South Africa has always been that of poverty. During the apartheid years, black women were … working on the…