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ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… South Africa, but the global economy and its and other states political futures. In the 1960s, countries across the … rate of the women in factories was…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… being branded a terrorist organisation by the United States and the United Kingdom, due to its ties with communism … The Praxis of Popular Politics in South…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… powers which included the United Kingdom (UK) and United States of America (USA) to put pressure on South Africa to …
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… Southern Africa. Some Iron Age communities became wealthy states. These people were the ancestors of the modern-day …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… supporter of the Back to Africa movement in the United States of America, Marcus Garvey founds the African …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… of Thunder is published in both England and the United States. Abrahams and his first wife, Dorothy, get a divorce. …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… inspired the Black Consciousness Movement. The United States Congress also called for a probe into Biko’s death. …
Debating Lineages of Socialism in Africa Webinars
South African History Online, the Wits History Workshop, the Department of History at the University of the Free State, the Department of Development Studies…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
South Africans went to the polls on 8 May 2019 in a general election considered the most important since the dawn of democracy in 1994. The ruling African…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
Ancient: Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. BC: Before Christ. Used in the Christian calendar to show a particular…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an overview of the history of the power utility over its first seventy-eight years…
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… ones that were being conducted against other front line states. At a subsequent meeting between a high-level … of censorship of the press to protect its…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… Ordinances recently passed. 14 March 1945 General Smuts states in the House of Assembly that the Natal Ordinances are … April 1945 Douglas Mitchell, the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… of national self-determination and the creation of nation states. [2] Enlightenment: The Age of Enlightenment (also … that Palestine be divided into…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Islam slowly spread to regions that now make up the modern states of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali … the kingdom to Islam and making it…
South African and World leaders
… led a delegation of UDF leaders to Europe and the United States. She met the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher … leaders then became the leaders of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… the 19th century along the north east coast of the United States, as it was expanding territorially to the west, more … into view the development of…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial rule over Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast in the late…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… This influx followed a similar pattern as in the United States of America. In the United States, the war caused a vacuum in employment because more …
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… warfare that went with the slave trade, large centralised states came into being. To read more visit our grade 10 … and beyond. It also accelerated the…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… of committees to rules of elections. Right off the bat it states, ‘ women shall participate in all political structures … in the South African government…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… Blacks. Verwoerd, educated in the Netherlands, the United States, and Germany, was the main ideologue of apartheid. He … to sit-ins and other non-violent…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… enlisted Gerardo Mosquera (Cuba), Kellie Jones (United States of America), Hou Hanru (Hong Kong), Yu Yeon Kim (South …
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… in the principle of equality of all human beings. It states that: Some human beings are biologically superior to …
ArticleThe impact of Lenin and Stalin’s policies on the rights of the Russian people
… War II as one of the superpowers, along with the United States of America. WAR COMMUNISM NEP STALIN'S FIVE YEAR …
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… later influenced by the independence of the most powerful states in the region which were a political threat to South …
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… Image source The TV was first introduced in the United States of America. After WWII, in the late 1940’s, mots … Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET),…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… to the intelligence secrets of Britain and the United States. In the southern states of America, segregation still held sway. A survey in … for racial…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… of existing chiefdoms, and the emergence of powerful new states. Its effects extended far beyond present-day South … became the Kingdom of Lesotho - one of…