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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…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… Conference can be best understood as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa. This British coined the term … European powers were slow to realise the…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… to a flourishing industrial economy with the development of many new secondary industries in its aftermath. By this … (1991:71) quotes 1940 statistics…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… is passed at a student body meeting for the establishment of a student Wages Commission. David Hemson , Halton Cheadle … Turner lead the collective thinking…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… ship repairs companies also came out on strike. By the end of March 1973, close on 100,000 mainly African workers, approximately half of the entire African…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… African World Heritage Sites Land dispossession history of South Africa 19th century South Africa South Africa … Govan Mbeki publishes Transkei in the…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … the Bantu Women’s League in 1931. This…
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… boycott a bus, you refuse to ride on it. Campaign A series of organised activities that are all meant to achieve a … deal with difficult or dangerous…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… South Africa for more than 100 000 years. As a matter of fact, the Cradle of Humankind, or what is believed to be the birthplace of humans, is close to…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… to fill the political vacuum. A movement based on the idea of being Black began to organize and educate the Black people … College campuses, Indian students…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… National Aids Council (SANAC) to review its two years of work against HIV/AIDS being under the leadership of Deputy President Jacob Zuma. 9 July - 14 July,…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… After the French Revolution, the newly founded Republic of France conquered the Netherlands in 1795. The Netherlands … became known as the Batavian Republic…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… The Silverton and Soekmekaar verdict prompted a wave of protests against the death penalty and particularly the death sentences of Johnson Lubisi, Petrus…
Conflict among civic organisations
… the same ideological stance, interests and outcomes. One of the major divisions was race. For instance, CAHAC drew its … to CAHC were coloured areas. However…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… poll, he followed his conscience and resigned. The head of the University gave him a choice: either he accepts the … or he leaves the university. He was…
ArticleWorld War I
… This feature commemorates the outbreak of the First World War. This major historical event became … from previous wars, in Europe, is the scale and brutality…
The National Anthem
… Words This is the official version of the national anthem, combining Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem / The Call of South Africa Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were being tailed by … police. They hold 25 civilians hostage…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly … formed an organization called The…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC … Worker and Azania Frontline as publications…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in nearby … the attack was aimed at undermining the…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist settlers landed…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save the … Goals was introduced in September 2000 …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their parents,…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… racial segregation in South Africa began with the arrival of the Dutch and English colonisers. Following its victory … and Coloured) population with an…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Within a decade, irregularities in the employment of Indians had increased to such an extent that that the … in 1885, to investigate the conditions and…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its … Indian Congress (SAIC). There was a general…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… Organisation (SASO) was formed in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to break…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… the meeting ends in failure. February, The decision of the Natal Indian Association (NIA) executive to cooperate … with the Lawrence Committee in…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work towards a peaceful solution to the problem of…