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ArticleThe Mendi Decoration of Bravery
The Decoration is awarded to South African citizens who have performed an extraordinary act of bravery that placed their lives in great danger, or who lost…
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
Communist Party Calls Mass Demonstration to Commemorate", South African Worker, 27 February 1937 The traditions of the labour movement in South Africa young…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… great powerful countries of the world; America and Russia cover huge tracts of land territorially and number hundreds …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was little to attract other…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
1943 23 February, Abu Baker Asvat is born in Vrededorp, Gauteng. 1961 Asvat graduates from Johannesburg Indian High School and moves to Pakistan to…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the British Government called upon the dominions in the British Empire to come to its assistance. The South…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
Photograph of a Khoisan lady. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 The Khoisan are established as the dominant power in the southern and south…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
1960 21 March, In a peaceful anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding…
PlaceDrakensberg Mountain Range, Lesotho
"Kahlamba" is an alternative name for the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa.The range is more than 200 kilometres long and combines rugged…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… Africans from its definition of employee, and thus did not cover them. For an analysis of the act, see Robert Davies, …
EventAthanase Seromba surrenders to the ICTR after being accused of participating in the slaughter of the Tutsis
Athanase Seromba, a priest accused of partaking in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that saw over 800 000 tutsis die at the hands of Hutu militia, handed himself over…
PlaceKleinmond, Western Cape
Kleinmond is within easy driving distance from Cape Town, along the scenic coastal road known as R44 or Clarence Drive. Kleinmond is a peaceful little village…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
The history of the struggle against racial oppression and exclusion in South Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle of workers against…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
The rounding of the Cape and the establishment of the trade route to the Far East had far reaching consequences not just for the Cape, but for Southern Africa…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
In democratic South Africa, the government allows citizens to express dissatisfaction through peaceful demonstrations. Workers are also allowed by legislation…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
The Swazi nation, as we know it today, originally came from Mozambique. Their Nguni ancestors probably moved there before the sixteenth Century as part of the…
EventThe United Nations (UN) imposes sanctions on Libya
The United Nations (UN) imposed sanctions on Libya for refusing to hand over two men suspected of bombing the Pan Am flight 103. Seven years later (1999),…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
1. Introductory Notes These submissions to the Constitutional Assembly come at the end of the process of public participation in drawing up our new…
PlaceAngola
… in 1718 [lvi] . The area he would rule over would only cover São Salvador (previously named (Mbanza Kongo) and …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
Forced removals refer to the moving of people from their homes against their will. This may not always involve physical threat or force, but sometimes coercion…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
The Ndebele and the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform promised…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
The African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912 as a result of many grievances. This included black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910…
The turn to armed struggle
For several years, different liberation organisations debated engaging in armed struggle against the Apartheid state. Following the Sharpeville Massacre, the…
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
1892 16 March, James Sebe Moroka is born in Thaba Nchu., Bophuthatswana in the Free State province. 1909 Moroka completes his primary school education,…
ArticleSharpeville
On 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and thereafter gather peacefully at police…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
Those who formed part of the poorest section of the Indian community, such a labourers, artisans, market-gardeners bore the brunt of the effect of the increase…
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
Township 6 km West of Klerksdorp in the North West. It is said to take its name indirectly from the State in South-East America. Named after, the Confederate…
PlaceOld Stables, Oatlands, Simonstown
This building was originally erected in the 18th century as a set of stables on the well-known Oaklands property. Shortly after the second British occupation…