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ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… young and Abrahams was sent to live in the rural village of Elsburg. 1926 At the age of seven Abrahams mother retrieves him from Elsburg and … to live with…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… Written documents are very important sources of history. Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can … recognise how important oral traditions are. It…
ArticleEOAN Group
… that offered music training for the Coloured community of District Six . As a cultural welfare organisation it offered a wide range of activities from ballet…
South African Labour history
… different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining industry has often been told as the story of …
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… The reign of Mzilikazi Under the leadership of Mzilikazi, the people who came to be called the Ndebele in Zimbabwe (originally of the Khumalo clan) broke…
The Mountain Committee
… A vast popular movement of resistance arose amongst the people in March 1960, and … they were held just the same and attended by thousands of peasants, who…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… November at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. On 20 December 1991, the … South Africa (CODESA I). The first…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… Introduction Full feature on the History of Women’s struggle in South Africa will give a broader view of the role played by women in the struggle for…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… the young Paul Kruger becomes witness to the battle of Vegkop against Mzilikazi. 1838 Paul Kruger's parents cross … Kruger collects signatures to object to…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic … and…
ArticlePondoland
… Introduction. Pondoland is the traditional area of the Pondo people, one of the Xhosa speaking peoples. Pondoland area is situated on the South African…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was … in Pietermaritzburg with Alpheus Mthethwa,…
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
… period following June 16th. The biographies here are of some of these role players. This section of our site is currently being researched further, so the …
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… Communist state in Russia, we have already touched on many of the curriculum's remaining questions, but we will now … like health and education to the…
ArticleWages Commission
… Currie’s Fountain, three students from the Durban campus of the University of Natal –David Hemson, Halton Cheadle and David Davis - … their services. The…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… 2 000 and 1 700 years ago This topic focuses on the life of the first farmers of southern Africa and the ways we can find out about them. … people made tools…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Land and labour are two very important elements of the economic development of a society, and the way they are used will influence how … history there has…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… the Vita Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg. The focus of the Dance Umbrella was to offer a free and open platform to any form of dance as long as it was a new…
Melinda Stuurman
… tuition – I dropped out and decided to work for a couple of years and then continue my studies. I worked at SBH Cotton … regret it for one moment. I studied…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… course that sought to put Africans back at the center of their history and highlight African agency. With only an overview of apartheid, students undertook…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
… from two factories called for the establishment of a union. Two months later, the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU), with the assistance of the GFWBF,…
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… The National Heritage Resources Act , no. 25 of 1999, aimed to introduce an interactive and integrated … Resources Agency (SAHRA) and Council. The…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… as wagon drivers, etc. They suffered severely as result of the British "scorched earth policy" during which those who … to concentration camps, as were the…
Buddhism
… topic or have any content suggestions please click on one of the 'interact' menu options on the right. Buddhist monks … , in Buddhism, refers to two things:…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. 1961 Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister … scene." From Desmond Tutu's speech …
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… 1999 the South Africa government commissioned the purchase of R30 billion worth of armaments specifically submarines and frigates from a … the whole country…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… a railway line to Johannesburg and tried to get as much of the Transvaal's railway traffic as it could by reducing … The Transvaal government increased the…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… A number of interrelated factors led to the South African War. The … text below include; the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… medical studies. 1964 Ebrahim and Abu, along with a group of likeminded students in Karachi, establish the Azania Youth … after he makes a complaint about…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had stripped black residents of their legally…