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Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… Bill proposed to give the vote to all Whites at the age of twenty-one years, whilst Non-White men had to meet … On the other hand, in the Transvaal and…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
… a superpower by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin’s death in 1925, after which he instituted a range of far-reaching policy changes that would…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… counter demands from political parties on a wide variety of issues. The African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha … 26 to 28 April 1994. There had been a…
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… as an effort to distil violent clashes between members of the two parties. The Secretary General of the IFP, Oscar … and ANC tension Click here to read more…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
… Peak is named after John Chapman , the Captain’s mate of an English ship, the 'Consent'. The Peak which can be seen … mountaineer, but a lowly ship's pilot…
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… Happy Joyce Mashamba passed away at the age of 67 after battling with a long illness, the details of which have not yet been disclosed to the public. [i]…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… Originally no provision was made for the education of Indians. The Reverend Stott of the Wesleyan Mission … per annum . In 1878 at the insistence of the…
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 … mght here. There seemed no prospect…
XIII - The Courts
… exist they tend to play a significant role in the system of domination. They normally claim a monopoly of the right to … violence involved in police…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… that triggered the uprising can be traced back to policies of the Apartheid government that resulted in the introduction … Education Act, 90% of black South…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… The name of the Observatory refers to W.J. Hussey and a good friend of … to the History group of ASSA Bloemfontein in the Free State and Friends of Lamont…
PlaceGarden Route, Cape Town
… about four hours outside Cape Town , and includes one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline, the starting point of which is constantly contested as…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… were our children can started reading about the history of the black heroes of our struggle - well done I would like … will point that out. Chris Barnard :…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… When the story of the founding of the Congress Youth League (CYL) — the forerunner of the ANC Youth League — is told, usually it is only Anton … Jordan…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… Wednesday David Goldblatt wrote an email to the Chancellor of Orders explaining that he was declining the Order of … passing of the Secrecy Bill (the…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic education made this bold recommendation in a … approaches of Nazi Germany to that of the…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal under British … new entrance gate erected. But her true legacy…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… accorded me here this afternoon. I know that this welcome of yours is but an indication of the united stand of the … the Non-European people of the Transvaal…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… and Personal Observations written in December 1991 as part of group reports at the end of our studies at Institut … of appointment of chairmen of public…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… made this now well-known Heilbron speech. As a result of disturbances in South African politics the Prime Minister found it necessary on this occasion to…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… PART 1. The white state has thrown overboard every pretence of rule by democratic process. Armed to the teeth it has … some of them: We are faced with a…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established it as the basis of State ideology and…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established it as the basis of State ideology and…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Statement by Jacob Zuma, 30 September 2002
… This National Policy Conference of the ANC, held over the four days of September 27th to 30th … programmes using labour intensive methods. In regard to state…
UCT Summer School 2020
… PERIOD: 1780–1820 Professor Nigel Penn, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town 13–17 January … later he led the four British colonies …
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… completed his higher education diploma at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1940 and became a teacher at the Karoo … in 1946. In 1952 he was appointed as…
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… The Village of Colesberg was founded in 1830 on the site of an abandoned station of the London Missionary Society, and … However Boer forces continued to…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… ourselves face to face with a gentleman about thirty years of age, with a long light beard. He looked at us at first … window until wood could be procured…
PlaceKing’s Blockhouse, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town.
… Following the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795, the existing Dutch line of defence, known as the French line , was extended by the … the…
PlaceLiberia
… means ‘freedom’ formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were not … born in America became the first…