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EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
South Africa and Lesotho decided to establish a consultative committee to resolve misunderstandings arising from the movement of people across their common…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… racially separate education provision continued into the 1990s. When high-school students in Soweto started protesting …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her…
BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
In 1969 Somalian president Abd-i-rashid Ali Shermarke was assassinated in a military Coup. Major General Mohammad Siyad Barre took control of the country's…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
Tanganyika (now known as Tanzania) formally ended all direct and indirect trade relations with South Africa. Tanganyika became one of the first countries in…
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
The Tamil Benefit Society presents a memorandum on poor housing conditions in Pageview, Johannesburg, and the need for housing schemes for poorer Indians to…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education
"This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior to the arrival of Europeans in South Africa -…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
Thirty years ago in 1977 the beast of Apartheid snuffed out the life of one of the greatest thinkers in the liberation pantheon of South Africa: Steve Biko. He…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
In 1884, at the Berlin Conference, the European powers carved up Africa amongst themselves. By 1914 all of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia, was under…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His…
BiographySimon van der Stel
Simon van der Stel was born on 14 October 1639 to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens. The couple were en route to Mauritius when Maria gave birth to…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
- Prioritising armed struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and that’s at the end. -…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
Honourable Speaker, First Minister, Ministers, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am greatly honoured that you have given us the opportunity to…
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…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education
"The Turning Points in History project has invited four leading academics to locate the primary document presented here ”” Nelson Mandela’s statement from…
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, East Africa. His parents were Parsis from Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Mercury was sent to boarding school…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… land on which SOMAFCO stands today. The beginning of the 1990s witnessed the maturing of both the subjective and …
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
Can you create music that can find a home on both sides of the Indian Ocean beyond the cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian forms compatible with their African…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaThis feature has explored the devastating changes that industrialisation brought for the majority of people…
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool. The book takes us back to the late 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the…
New Generation Sculpture
During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the country, Gazankulu and Venda, came to the attention of academic…
PlaceThulamela Local Municipality
… about 1.5 Million people in South Africa in the mid-1990s, with some 4.5 Million individuals in southern …
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…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
Overview Balthazar Johannes Vorster (also known as BJ Vorster or John Vorster) was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, after having served…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
Martin Luther King, Junior, an African-American clergyman who orchestrated social change through non-violent methods was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta,…
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and…