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ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
The Society of Young Africa (SOYA) held its opening conference on 20th December 1951. Led by I. B. Tabata, SOYA was closely linked to the Non European Unity…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… the town camps in Angola, Quibaxe and Pango. In 1979, township-based regional organizations were established, such …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… in Pageview. They voluntarily moved to the Coronation Township and Albertsville. Govan Mbeki publishes Transkei in …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… Tsewu, an African who bought land in the Kliprivierskloof Township near Johannesburg successfully applies for a court …
Insurrections: The Storming
… Sazi Dlamini is founder of SKOKIANA, an extended township music performance project active since 1991 …
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… Sazi Dlamini is founder of SKOKIANA, an extended township music performance project active since 1991 …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… electricity. McRae had held interviews with churches and township residents to seek amicable and long-term solutions … of spreading electricity to rural…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Representative Council, the Coloured Advisory Council, township Advisory Boards, the (Transkei) Banga or any other … stayed aloof from the bus boycott of…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… at 75-80 percent in Johannesburg. 17 October, The township of Soweto flares into violence again. An estimated …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… The performance of Black drama and music by mushrooming township cultural groups becomes a significant factor in the … The Langa students march with placards…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of separate states, called homelands…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
On 12 September 1977, the Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko died while in the custody of security police. The period leading up to his death, beginning…
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
While the tricameral parliament was designed to co-opt Coloureds and Indians and to bring a renewed legitimacy to the Apartheid regime, developments in the…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… had become impossible in the turbulent metropolitan township. On 8 August 1976, students in Mmabatho burned down …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… in a major bus boycott in Johannesburg’s Alexandra township where the Congress leadership, heads huddled closely … even as they were moved in government…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
The largest and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion Christian Church[i] . Its members, estimated to number between 2…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… Johannesburg, South Africa Baleka Mbete was born in the township of Claremont on 24 September 1949 in the province of …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… rights. 30 October, A series of bomb blasts rocks the township of Soweto , South of Johannesburg, killing one … against mainly foreign nationals starts in…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to confine them to the…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
1994: South Africa's first non racial, democratic electionsSouth Africa’s democratic system was endorsed by voters drawn from across the country’s racial…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
With the ANC now legal, mass demands were made for a constitutional assembly to create a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary South Africa. The UDF had…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… a comprehensive ARV treatment plan. Patients in Langa Township, Capetown receiving ARVs, January 2004. …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… the order and speaks at a public meeting in Alexandra Township. He is arrested the next day. 26 June, The Defiance …
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… in 1860 he purchased the camp and laid it out as a formal township, which made provision for a school, a hotel and …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes for adults in her father's garage She spent…
ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
1650 Earliest known history - the Nqondo clan occupy the land now known as Cato Manor 1730 They are replaced by the Ntuli clan - it is unclear what…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… 'winning hearts and minds' (WHAM) of the masses by token township upgrading. At the top of the system is the State …