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Yard (*Working Title) Organised by ALMA MARTHA and Heinrich Groenewald In Collaboration with Erf 81, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town A site-specific 7-day workshop…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… On Wednesday, August 19, 1981, a racist judge in Pretoria sentenced to death three …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
The South African photographer David Goldblatt has installed photographs of former criminals in prisons in Birmingham and Manchester. The portraits, part of a…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
Early Humans: Considerable evidence indicates that about 600,000 years ago, humans inhabited what has since become the desolate Sahara of northern Niger. Long…
The kanga, womanhood and how Zuma's 2006 rape trial changed the meaning of the fabric by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail and Guardian), 10 Aug 2016
During the 2006 rape trial in which President Jacob Zuma was acquitted of rape, there wasn’t much in common in Zuma or Khwezi’s testimonies. But one thing that…
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… the Courtyard of the Building and this came into use on 19 January 1815 and served this function for the next …
Place(The) Gambia
… https://www.africanews.com/2017/01/19/why-africa-s-smiling-coast-is-referred-to-as-the-gambia// …
PlacePiketberg
The small, farming Town of Piketberg also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past. Is located at the foot of the Piketberg Mountain Range. It is surrounded by…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… a bounty on her head, she returned to the South at least 19 times to lead her family and hundreds of other slaves to …
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
Please note that this information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… Indian South Africans Timeline: 1960-1969 1960 19 February, Dr Monty Naicker called for strength in … Manor. It will only be taken away over our dead bodies…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
The industrial Revolution has shaped the societies we live in today and more so in Britain and in Southern Africa. It brought about not only changes in…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… of 30 000 executions were conducted during this time. [19] The role of women Women in Ming China had the ability to … from the dawn of civilisation to the…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… because I know how it can treat you. Letter, November 19 1966 On their wedding anniversary in July 1979, Walter's … B. (2003). "Family Man", Sunday Times, 11…
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…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… Eastern Cape, the son of Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima. 1907 19 April, Enoch Mgijima, who had already gained quite a …
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… and were kicked off with a series of public meetings. On 19 August 1981 a meeting of 3000 people was held in Lenasia …
ArticleCosatu timeline
… 2010 19 January: ( Congress of South African Trade Unions ) COSATU …
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… and the police of complicity in the massacre. Then on the 19 June, religious figures Bishop Desmond Tutu and afterwards …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in Pietermaritzburg. 19 October, at a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… some or as slightly more superior than other Aborigines. [19] However, at the beginning of the 20th century, these … racism in Australia. Thomson Learning…
PlaceRwanda
… Belgian colonialist and Rwandan local. Image source The 1959 Revolution and independence from Belgium During the … There was only one problem, in the period…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… that her husband was abducted from his place of work on 19 August 1985. He was fatally stabbed and mutilated in …
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… Soweto Council123 '. The Natives Resettlement Act (Act No 19 of 1954) led to the establishment of Meadowlands, also …
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… of colour was admitted to the engineering faculty only in 1959. Whatever my initial result, the fact that Dad was able, …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… not understand their lessons. Steve passed Standard Six in 1959 and in 1960 he went on to Forbes Grant, a school through …
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… kept racing back to a momentous event that took place on 19 October 1977. On that day, in one fell swoop, the … more) under the editorship of Qoboza once…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Hani applies for admission to Fort Hare University. 1959 5 February, Registers at the University of Fort Hare in …
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… gain more votes in this way and increase its majority. In 1959 the UN found that South Africas administration went …
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… including the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959, which provided for the creation of homelands , and the …