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ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to participate. The aim of the referendum…
The National Arts Festival
… immigrants in South Africa. They established the tradition of celebrating landmark anniversaries on a grandiose scale … were held. The concept would grow to…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… The first sign of open resistance against payment of the tax came when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to … Kranskop Court, where they were each…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was … to the area. The population, according…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… land), with eventually only the western and northern areas of the Cape not dominated by them. 1500 The power of the Portuguese nation begins to decline. This…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… was in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992, the Bisho Massacre added to the bleak … took place on 7 September 1992 in Bisho,…
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Anybody who felt they had been a victim of violence could come forward and be heard…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… - 1850) was as follows: There were three groups of people: The Xhosa, who had lived there for hundreds of years. The Trekboers, who moved into the area from…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… 1906 11 September, A mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg … November, established as the deadline for the registration…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… laws or land distribution has become integral part of the society, particularly from 2004 as generally … country’s democracy was 10 years old. The second…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… The EFF sees economic freedom as total ownership of economic and natural resources by the previously oppressed … own economic resources for the development…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… This article was written by Carly Spagnola and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Since the beginning of the…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… Cape Town has a long history of the struggle against racial discrimination and social injustice. Some of the earlier struggles against injustice manifested ……
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… as a residential area. 1912 Sophiatown has the first of its inhabitants. These are mainly white families 1912-1921 … to growth in the other adjacent freehold…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… agree on a common commitment towards the resolution of the existing climate of violence and intimidation from whatever quarter as well as a commitment to…
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… (GFWBF) in 1972. They worked closely with Harriet Bolton of TUCSA. The aim of the GFWBF was, through worker organisations, to make workers aware of their…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Kenya around 2000BCE, and again in 1000BCE, to occupy most of the area of the country. Around 400CE Bantu-speaking peoples arrived in the country, followed…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli ,…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… composed to mark this historic occasion. By the middle of 1956 plans had been laid for the Pretoria march and the … meet with their leaders so they could…
Hinduism
… everything comes from God and that he is like the root of a tree, while the rest of the world is the branches and leaves of the tree. They feel that watering…
Islam
… is a person who submits his life to the way and authority of Allah. This means that everything in a Muslim's life is … someone who can repeat the Shahada,…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of birth varies substantially in various…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… businessman and lawyer Nic Barrow and the former head of Naspers, Andrew Marais, as an Afrikaans equivalent of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival , the…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… were hosted by the Botswana National Museum in July of 1982 in Gaborone, Botswana as part of The Culture and Resistance Conference. The Culture and … within…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Worker 31 January 1929 The Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, December … delegates, 20…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a nation-wide anti-pass campaign to start on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919…
The CASA Conference
… Anti-Apartheid Beweging Nederland (AABN), which was part of the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement, organised the Culture … week-long event that took place in…
Glossary: Local History
… Account A record or description of past events. Archaeology The study of pre-historic people and their culture. Banished Forced to … Someone who believes in…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 1
… The content listed below applies to the last 10 000 years of the Later Stone Age. Older Stone Age periods go back over hundreds of thousands of years…
Imvaba Arts Association
… in New Brighton, Kwazakhele and Motherwell townships of Port Elizabeth. It was a community organisation with the aim of promoting and assisting artists…