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ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… was still a cautious approach, with the limited objective of preparing young scholars for leadership in the Black … the country were experiencing an increase…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… Background Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a … celebrate their cultural traditions in the wider context of the…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… Organisation (AZASO): A summary Following the banning of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) a new … by students from five black universities and…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… For the oppressed people of South Africa the commemoration of the twentieth year of … all the practices, policies and laws of the South African State. For…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… , Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era ended in 1994, and people hoped … is now called the Marikana massacre , when…
Address by President Mandela at ECOWAS Abuja, 30 October 1998
… Your Excellency, the Chair of ECOWAS Heads of State Excellencies Distinguished delegates … to address African leaders at this meeting of Heads of state of…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van ……
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
… in the America. Image Source Abolition: The ending of a law, a system or an institution. During the 19th … or no people lived before. Slavery: This refers…
English Settlement in South Africa
… the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India … Between 1632 and 1640, the British also…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's … executing the coup. He…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela leads an anti-pass … Reef, killing 18 and wounding 30 people…
ArchiveFOSATU granted non-racial exemptions
… Last month the State hastily granted non-racial exemptions to 6 FOSATU …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… forward when Allan Boesak called for a 'united front' of 'churches, civic associations, trade unions, student … in Johannesburg on 23 January 1983, but this…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… pages the reader will find what has been termed " Bill of Rights " and " The Atlantic Charter from the African’s … to the transfer of the protectorates to…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the most … vulnerable. There were…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the most … vulnerable. There…
PlacePeter Mokaba Stadium
… In preparation of the FIFA World Cup of 2010 , South Africa had to upgrade and build a variety of … These included the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit , Free…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… Kotane, a seasonal dressmaker. He is the second eldest son of eleven children. 1918 Kotane goes to work at Driefontein … 1920 Kotane attends school for the…
EventDr Ribeiro and his wife are gunned down
… hearing in 1997 that they were assassinated by Apartheid state agents, when six policemen (AJM Joubert, PJ Verster, C … granted amnesty for the role he…
EventA new right-wing group Aksie Eie Toekoms (Action for our Own Future) (AET) is founded in Pretoria.
… H.F. Verwoed, advocated for a White Afrikaner State and segregation. Lubbe is on record saying that … that Afrikaners survived. The group later became part…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham Lincoln. … Africa to the present day. The…
EventCrime statistics released
… that 10 161 people were murdered in the first seven months of 1995, an average of one in every 29 minutes. This marks a 7% reduction, a big … police services…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… On 7 March 1960, a photograph of a 13 year-old Native boy in a torn vest was published in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald, with…
ArchiveShould we enter Parliament?
… asking wheter they should enter the Parliament, they also state reasons why they cannot enter. …
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family, I am greatly … district. In 1960 he spent five months in…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… been in South Africa now for 85 years, and in the measure of their possibilities, they have contributed to the … the end of the last century, they were…
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… time, the inquest revealed full and horryfying details of how political detainees are treated. What exactly happened … known only to his interrogators. But…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… powers carved up Africa amongst themselves. By 1914 all of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia, was under colonial … that continues today. Tanzania developed…
The French Revolution
… On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in … himself, his chief minister Mazarin was in control of the state. Absolute…
South Sudanese Independence Granted
… A 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement granted the region of Southern Sudan semi-autonomous status after successive … in the region made it impossible for…