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ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… investigates the ways in which the politics and culture of the Boer Republics clashed with the modernising thrust of the Uitlanders on the rapidly growing…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… in technology, but also changes in the social structures of societies, manufacturing, transport and agriculture. This … the Industrial Revolution in Britain,…
National Land Committee
… Programme should address the racially based dispossession of all forms of land rights that occurred after 1913. Government should … acknowledge that certain…
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…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… by Ronel Segal into the then British controlled territory of Bechunaland. He was followed by Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, Chairperson of the South African Indian…
ArticleAreas indentured Indians came from
… falls and the presidency/state involved. Use the map of India 1900 to ascertain the relative location of the district (Column 3) and the presidency/state…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… The emergence of South Africa's democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to the crisis: … crisis, which ordinary…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis … and the red meat boycott amongst others…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… for their cattle. The Trek Boers preferred the freedom of their ox wagons and tents to living under the rule of the DElC. Their trek brought them into…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to … can justly…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… By the turn of the century, despite the fact that women of all races were still virtually restricted to the home, … already begun to forge differences…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… , a popular activist, was named under the Suppression of Communism Act . He was jailed for thirty days during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and detained under…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… When the Union of South Africa was established in 1910, there was already a … However, over time men and women resisted the imposition of passes as it…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and mid-70s, the government's 'total onslaught' … to suppress much unrest and had it…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… One of the most important developments in South Africa in this period was the formation of the Pact Government in which the push for independence … a pact to…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… permission. 1901 January 23, Conveys condolences on behalf of Indians on Queen's death. February 2, Lays wreath at … Wires High Commissioner objecting to…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… civil disobedience and pass burnings. There was a sense of rivalry between the two organisations to get their … first. Suddenly the country was rocked by the…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… British victory in the South African War , the Union of South Africa was forged in 1910 under the British … British colonies. For the most part during the…
Mission Stations - N-S
… available NDALENI , Natal: WMS 1848 NDARALAS , district of Kokstad, Cape: SPG 1900 NDLANKOMO , Transkei, Cape: No … Cape: WMS 1840. The mission was destroyed…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as providing the most poignant…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… Until the coming of democracy, Nelspruit was a small town that functioned mainly as a hub of transport for agricultural products that were transported to…
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… however, they eventually became more powerful in terms of population size and land ownership. The San lost their … Europeans arrived in the…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… In the latter part of 1959, PAC membership was still below expectations, and it … in December. The conference met in an atmosphere of anticipation. PAC…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… People as historical sources People can be great sources of information. By speaking to people we can learn about the past. Learners are also sources of…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… as anti-social behaviour frowned upon by polite sections of society. There is no doubt that the behaviour of gangsters like Kortboy and Don Mattera in…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade, and…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… Present day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century,…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and … to be co-opted by the colonial rulers at the expense of…
ArticleKey sites
… Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These … chow" originated. The "bunny chow" was an invention born of the City’s racist…
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… with the Rand Daily Mail, the Daily Dispatch was one of the loudest mouthpieces for mainstream liberal critique of the Apartheid government and its policies…