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EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
From the beginning of colonialism in the 1880s following the 'scramble for Africa', the Congo had been regarded as Leopold II's personal fiefdom. Leopold's…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, with a nation-wide State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
The history of four years of the revolutionary multi-racial union in South Africa, the Industrial Workers of Africa, and the labour movement at the time. …
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… against apartheid which became more prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s.1 I will add a further perspective to … the unbanning of Matshikiza’s…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… controlled some $50-million in resources in the early 1980s and ‘more than half of the ANCs external manpower. He …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Booker T. Washington's educational philosophy of self-help and vocational and technical…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
After the government crackdown on political organizations in the early 1960s, new organizations emerged to fill the political vacuum. A movement based on the…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
The Origins and formation: The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was formed in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… started to decline, falling into a recession in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The problem of unemployment was …
The melody of freedom
A reflection on music Riot policeman Erasmus shot seventeen-year-old Mngcini 'Big Boy' Mginywa from Grahamstown at a funeral because, he told the judge, the…
English Settlement in South Africa
British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… in South Africa that swept through the country in the 1980s, and the changing geopolitical circumstances on the …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
Introduction MK Sabotage. This photograph was part of a sequence shot by a Rand Daily Mail photographer, two of which were published in the and Daily Mail of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
QUESTION 1: HOW WAS AFRIKANER NATIONALISM PROMOTED IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE 1930s TO 1940s? Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the questions that…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
Kader Asmal political activist, human rights lawyer, former Minister of Education (1999-2004) and of Water Affairs and Forestry (1994-1999); is born in Stanger…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
Beerhalls have always been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
Zuleikha Mayat was born in 1926 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province). Her father, Mohamed Bismilla, was a prominent business person who first…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… a campaign to free these prisoners during the 1970s and 1980s. [26] Sonia Bunting continued her work with the British …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
From Garvey to Lenin, via Kadalie: The ICU’s “Ginger” Faction and the Transformation of Interwar Black Radicalism Henry Dee International Studies Group,…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
Ellen Phyllis Hellmann was born in Johannesburg in 1908. Her father had immigrated to South Africa from Germany in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology at the…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
By 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered in Orlando West to begin a protest march against the imposition of the Afrikaans language as the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education By 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… of the broad non-racial mass democratic movement of the 1980s. SASO and AZASO/SANSCO were revolutionary, national, …
Control: 1910 - 1948
Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
In the 1940s the ANC rejuvenated itself and began to work more closely with the SACP, putting behind the antagonistic relationship between the two parties in…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… A recruitment policy was to be in place only in the 1980s, and still not without problems. …
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
Chinua Achebe (1930-) is a prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of Western customs and values on traditional African…
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
… youth of the June 16 detachment and the young lions of the 1980s. It was also so with the generations of youth before …
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… it was a racial construction, ab initio and well into the 1980s otherwise the British East India Company would have … which met with severe limits in the 70s…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
ABSTRACT OF THESES This thesis highlights the ebbs and flows of the Indian minority's struggles against the systematic and unjust segregation of mankind…