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Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… Coloured, exile, poet Arthur Nortje : Poet in Exile The 1940s in South Africa was marked by incredible racial tension … cities, threatening White workers…
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 from Britain…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - Celebrating 50 Years Conference. “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”:…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
On 5 June 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). The following year its name was…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… but grew rapidly over the years to top 50 000 by the mid-1940s. When Indian Opinion was reaching its dying days in …
Insurrections: The Storming
… of India’s resistance providing textured renditions of the 1940s and 1950s compositions. He is a remarkable composer in …
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… of India’s resistance providing textured renditions of the 1940s and 1950s compositions. He is a remarkable composer in …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
In the late 1970s four young men publicly refused to obey their army call-ups by the South African Defence Force (SADF) and were sentenced to up to 18 months…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
A growing urban African population
As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… Fordsburg. He attends the Newtown Indian Primary School. 1940s Kathrada meets Yusuf Dadoo , I.C. Meer , Yusuf and … du Preez, an Afrikaner, gives him the…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had banished the Black resistance…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
Art in the state of siegeThe Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events,…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
The overthrow of Portugal’s Prime Minister, Marcello Caetano, on 25 April 1974 hailed a watershed moment for the former Portuguese colonies of Mozambique,…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… or stage a major campaign like the SAIC and ANC in the 1940s and 1950s against the White government. Coloured …
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
Introduction The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the self-governing British colonies of the Natal, Cape, Transvaal and…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
Formed in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, this was a union of women factory workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… after the formation CPSA in 1921 and the second was in the 1940s against the background of the Second World War. After …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… step toward enforced segregation, the late 1930s and early 1940s saw the implementation of pegging laws which limited …
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… or it divided into two separate homesteads. By the 1940s most Ndebele settlements had changed to a linear …
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… Although it collapsed as an organisation in the early 1940s, having to give way to more radical organisations, the …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
This article was written by Peter LaNasa and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract: This essay discusses…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… national movement for rights of all citizens until 1930s, 1940s South African Native National Congress (now known as … spread of Ethiopianism and Garveyist…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
Civic organisation also experienced problems in organising across the racial divide. Initially the emerging civic organisation in African township and coloured…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in Mitchells Plain…