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ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… its first January 8th statement in 1972, the founding date of the ANC. This statement outlined the organisation’s … issued its next January 8th statement in…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… ), Robben Island - ( Western Cape) , and Cradle of Humankind - ( Gauteng ) This article uses images from the Wikipedia article "List of World Heritage Sites…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… (ordinance or statute) restricting the importation of Asian slaves is promulgated. Dlamini chiefdoms move south from Delagoa Bay and settle on land north of…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women Johannesburg, 17 April 1954. The Charter expressed the philosophy and aims of the…
ArticleThe Constitution
… South African Constitution of 1996 Republic of South Africa The Republic of South Africa is one, sovereign, democratic state founded …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… BC Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In the Sahara Desert region, the people develop the use of pottery and…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… things to different people. Some people relate to the idea of heritage in a personal way, whilst others see it as having … significance. In this section, we…
ArticleThe San
… The San populated South Africa long before the arrival of the Bantu-speaking nations, and thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. Language,…
ArticleZulu Family History
… stabbed and shot. Mantfombi Dlamini, born 1956, daughter of Sobhuza II of Swaziland and sister of Mswati III, married 1973. A condition for this marriage …
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… KwaMsiza is a village of 49 families located some 50km north of Pretoria. Its residents are Ndzundza Ndebele , and belong … an airport in 1953, they were…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… www.historywiz.com A new absolute ruler After the fall of Robespierre in 1794, a new group of people took over the government. They were called the Directory…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… (SACP) convenes a special meeting. Apart from members of the Central Committee, leading activists of the Party, including MK cadres who experienced armed ……
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1971 Statement by OR Tambo to the People of South Africa on the 10th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe . 16 December 1971 1972 " Speech by Oliver Tambo on the…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… formally established the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of South Africa in 1652. The history of the church has been very much bound with the politics of the…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… Soweto student uprisings have also inspired the production of plays including Sarafina which went on to play on … Whoopi Goldberg as the leading actors. The…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… as “what may turn out to be the most important exhibition of the 1990s”, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale , which opened … as appointed by Christopher Till,…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… Very little is known about the languages of South Africa's San people, as most of these beautiful, ancient languages were never recorded. … was recorded…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… What is heritage and identity? Questions of heritage and identity are not as straightforward as they … there is not one heritage, or an easily delineated set…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
… 22 June 1946 — The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the …
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… greatest benefit on mankind. Winning a Nobel Prize is one of the highest international honours that can be bestowed on … and will help to generate funds to…
National Orders Recipients
… South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion and discrimination on the basis of sex, colour and creed. The country has been steadily ……
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… deaths. What made the war significant was the sheer scale of the conflict and the gross violation of Human Rights. All the great powers were involved as the …
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and … first non-racial elections. The first plenary…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the … Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… Written by: FRANCO FRESCURA The exploitation of convict labour at the Cape during the Colonial era is closely connected with the work of John Montagu,…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… African. Africa, and being African, has become a core part of the identity of millions of the continent's inhabitants, but where does this word, to … Lewis,…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… "On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… and young workers who shared the interests and aspirations of COSAS but could not belong to it. In 1982, a COSAS … Commission was established to investigate…