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ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars date back to … which in turn dispossessed Xhosa and Khoikhoi people of their land and cattle among…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the times of apartheid,…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… Nelson Mandela. On 20 and 21 December the first session of CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa) was … this event. All parties agreed to support…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) was founded in October 1954 by 61 … unions mainly representing White workers and mixed unions of Coloured and…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… During the 1990-1994 period of political liberalisation and negotiations leading to the … Students Organisation (SASCO) continued the tradition of militant…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Congress Chief Representative to Sweden and United States of America, South African Ambassador to Germany Abstract … Mabuza had a childhood no different from…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… the North West Province were a tragic stain on the history of post Apartheid South Africa. This timeline chronicles the … and the subsequent aftermath. The…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… believe that the San people were the descendants of the original Homo sapiens who lived in South Africa for at … AND THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS: Europeans arrived…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… she used her success to shine a light on the ugly truths of apartheid government. She utilised her voice to sing … government; her songs and success proved…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… first black South African woman to publish a collection of short stories. [i] She was also described as a passionate and invested woman in all subjects of…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… There are two types of World Heritage Sites. The first represents cultural and … sites Cultural heritage sites have to show a masterpiece of human creativity…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… jazz singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid. This is the biographical portion of the paper. At the end of the paper there is a…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… was nurtured from an early age when she had to take care of her siblings for her sickly mother (who had been greatly weakened by the Spanish flu of 1918). It…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… Musician, Soldier, and Spy Abstract Barry Gilder is one of South Africa’s most important revolutionaries that fought … Exile, Musician, Intelligence,…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… place was in the home and that politics was the domain of men. A small group of suffragists met in Durban in 1911 and formed the Women's Enfranchisement…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life…
BiographyRobert Edward Jansen
… 1949. The Cape Doctor, as he was popularly known, was one of South Africa’s most celebrated alto saxophonist, composer, … the early 1970s, Jansen shot to…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… and without qualification for the absolute freedom of the Non-European peoples in the political, economic, and … of understanding of the root causes of their…
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
… 1937 at Groutville Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to school … were not prepared for a protracted…
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
… where he enjoyed a spell as head boy at the age of 13 in 1941. That same year he joined the Van Riebeeck … 1964. Vigne played an important role in the…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… The Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was the first South … It came into being after the South African Congress of Trade Unions ( SACTU ) and…
Speech on the installation of professor Bundy as Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand
… Speech on the installation of professor Bundy as Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand …
"Racial Crisis in South Africa". Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… "Racial Crisis in South Africa". Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961 …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the unveiling of the Coat of Arms, 27 April 2000
… Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the unveiling of the Coat of Arms, 27 April 2000 …
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at the European parliament
… Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at the …
Report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa", Freedom, 5, 4, August-September 1946
… Report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa", Freedom, 5, 4, August-September 1946 …
Committee of Action of the Non-European United Front, Non-European United Front, Cape Town (1939)
… Committee of Action of the Non-European United Front, Non-European United Front, …
Letter from Workers' Party of South Africa to the Intemational Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L).
… Letter from Workers' Party of South Africa to the Intemational Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L). …
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
… The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s …
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… Philip Kgosana led a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to … On the same day, the government…