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Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… significant effects of apartheid in South Africa in the 1960s, including censorship on political writing. Emery’s … divorce was the source. Head’s…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… a staff member of the University of Natal (1956 to 1988). 1960s In the wake of the Sharpeville Massacre and the …
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… resistance against the Apartheid government. In the 1960s, common law prisoners were held together with political …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… people in South Africa. However, the 1950s and the early 1960s, showed the intension by the South African government …
ArticleThe San
… outside influences until about thirty years ago. In the 1960s, the Department of Nature Conservation began to take …
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to dislodge …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… isolate white South Africa from international sport in the 1960s and 1970s. After a brief description of the Luthuli …
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… Roberto, secured funding from Israel after visits in the 1960s, and FNLA troops were sent to Israel for training. …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… Coloured people from the voters’ roll. Throughout the 1960s Bibi maintained some level of political work, mainly … vulnerable to government harassment during…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… of support from newly independent African countries in the 1960s, by the mid-1970s the ANC was on the ascendancy, … is significant that the growth of the ANC…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… leaves little doubt that Mandela was at a point in the 1960s (between 1960 and 1962) an official member of the … was in control during the murky exile…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… soon changed in the post- Sharpeville period of the early 1960s, when the imprisonment of political detainees and …
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… crackdown on political organizations in the early 1960s, new organizations emerged to fill the political …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
Contents Nelspruit the Segregated city Homelands as Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until the demise of apartheid, Nelspruit remained a small…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… and the United States (the civil rights campaign of the 1960s). Gandhi himself was transformed by the struggles he … movers behind the civil rights movement…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… small and large Afrikaner capitalists, but by the late 1960s the larger capitalists dominated the organisation. By …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… cattle byres at KwaMsiza all but disappeared during the 1960s, and today only the Msiza one survives, albeit in a …
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… so vigorously and effectively that by the middle of the 1960s, nearly every aspect of South African life was …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… time period, located exclusively in the past (ie. roughly 1960s-1990), hides and depoliticises historical processes of … of contract laborers to leave…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
AbstractThis article traces the major segregation laws in South Africa that acted as precedent for the 1954 Native Resettlement Act. This apartheid law…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… South Africa. It had lacked this capacity since the early 1960s, after which its central concern had been the …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… me over approximately four years of my imprisonment in the 1960s. I had enough time on my hands to reflect on this and …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… use of oral sources in the 20th century before the 1980s. 1960s Among other consequences, the Van Zyl and Odendaal … of Bantu Education, took over the…
South African and World leaders
… she was constantly harassed by the Security Police. In the 1960s the ANC moved toward the armed struggle. Umkhonto we … citizen of a country has or should…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… student body that represented student interests. In the 1960s White members became sympathetic to the Black students …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
An image of bold, selfless youth in late 1970s South Africa inspired by the black radical consciousness philosophy. Image Source Essay Question: To what…