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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"…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…