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Political executions
… execution) Boesman, Mangena Jeffrey, 35 1989/09/29 Death of informer school teacher in Sterkstroom, Eastern Cape … in Paarl. Dyakala, Kholisile, 31 1989/11…
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… " We are in danger of losing our history" A recent report on history and … in schools offers compelling reasons for the teaching of these disciplines to be…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… In 1994, South Africans were liberated from a system of apartheid which had controlled their lives for nearly … if real economic change has been experienced…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa The feature on Indian South Africans forms part of our…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… traces his lineage back to the Thembu Chief Nxeko, one of the early Thembu Kings who ruled over Thembuland, a … The historical record shows Xhosa lived on…
ArticleThe Transkei
… Act were fought in the Transkei , where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke … held in custody for indefinite periods…
ArticleThe Western Front
… At the outbreak of the First World War, Germany put into operation the … Plan . This plan was based on the assumption that in case of a war breaking out,…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… dominated the organisation. By the 1970s the majority of it members supported PW Botha’s Total Strategy , calling … to become a hugely powerful business…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… Conference can be best understood as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa. This British coined the term … European powers were slow to realise the…
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 ……
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… is passed at a student body meeting for the establishment of a student Wages Commission. David Hemson , Halton Cheadle … Turner lead the collective thinking…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… South Africa for more than 100 000 years. As a matter of fact, the Cradle of Humankind, or what is believed to be the birthplace of humans, is close to…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… to fill the political vacuum. A movement based on the idea of being Black began to organize and educate the Black people … College campuses, Indian students…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the male Xhosa initiation, which is referred…
ArticleWorld War I
… This feature commemorates the outbreak of the First World War. This major historical event became … from previous wars, in Europe, is the scale and brutality…
The National Anthem
… Words This is the official version of the national anthem, combining Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem / The Call of South Africa Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save the … Goals was introduced in September 2000 …
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist settlers landed…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their parents,…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly … formed an organization called The…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Within a decade, irregularities in the employment of Indians had increased to such an extent that that the … in 1885, to investigate the conditions and…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its … Indian Congress (SAIC). There was a general…
America, Spanish conquest
… Spain. (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them.) On his second voyage, … colonists fought among themselves and…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his … The assassination…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African … to confine them to the nominally self-governing…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… Indians were officially recognised as a permanent part of the South African population and the Department of Indian Affairs was established with a White…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… 1971 Closure of The Classic , by Nat Nakasa , editor. Publication of ‘ Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’ , Oswald Mtshali’s first book of poetry, …
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... … they went to Holland, and they added: 'It…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… it called the ‘Cold War’ ? The reason lay in the threat of new and even deadlier weapons of nuclear technology that prevented outright open warfare. … by…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the … operate underground, some were banned or endorsed out of Cape Town while others were…