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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…
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"…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the…
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…
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…
ArticleAfrapix
… Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography … by Omar Badsha, Lesley Lawson and a small group of…
Liberation organisations
… United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It … African Defense Force (SADF) claimed…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… The cornerstone of the Group Areas Act of 1950 was to prevent interracial contact ‘as far as … be privileged with the exclusive rights and enjoyment of prime…
Durban an Overview
… In 1824 Nathaniel Isaacs obtained from Shaka, King of the amaZulu , a grant of land in the area immediately surrounding the bay of Durban. Initially…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… The history of the struggle against racial oppression and exclusion in … South Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle of workers against…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… Apartheid . James la Guma and Reggie September were two of the SACPO’s founding members, and served as President and … subjected Coloureds to repressive…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert … scale. However, information on the lives and works of these authors…
Mission Stations - A-F
… as it was often called in the days when it was a station of the London Missionary Society. At this place, which is … in the annexed etching, there were a…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… Genocide in Nazi Germany Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, which refers to the intentional, systematic extermination of six million Jews by the…
ArticlePoqo
… sabotage campaign. Unlike other resistance organisations of the time, such as uMkhonto we Sizwe , Poqo made no effort to avoid loss of life and was the most…
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…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… Most people credit the abolition of apartheid to many organisations and leaders, such as the … Mandela. It is, however, unlikely that most would think of the…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… In aftermath of the June 16 Uprising, the government cracked down on … Parents Association (BPA) and the National Association of Youth Organisations (NAYO)…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source The peoples of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long … European slaver traders arrived…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… occasionally trying to play a piano. Project: A biography of Michael Guthrie Scott Elizabeth Hudler Elizabeth Hudler … create, communicate, receive and…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… appointed by the Union Government in 1933, some members of the NIC resigned and formed a body called the Colonial … in here, he convened and presided over a…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their … a generally pro-British,…