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ArticleCODESA 1 Timeline
… publishes its constitutional principles and structures End of July 1991: President De Klerk confirms the need for … measures and adds that this will be on…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… or Kavanagh) - who was a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) - to run the workshop. McLaren’s aim was to “use theatre as a…
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… mass media in this country, creating a nation wide network of cinemas and theatres. He also created the first radio … Struggle is my Life Ngakane has been…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… Written documents are very important sources of history. Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can … recognise how important oral traditions are. It…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic … and…
ArticlePondoland
… Introduction. Pondoland is the traditional area of the Pondo people, one of the Xhosa speaking peoples. Pondoland area is situated on the South African…
ArticleEOAN Group
… that offered music training for the Coloured community of District Six . As a cultural welfare organisation it offered a wide range of activities from ballet…
South African Labour history
… different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining industry has often been told as the story of …
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… The reign of Mzilikazi Under the leadership of Mzilikazi, the people who came to be called the Ndebele in Zimbabwe (originally of the Khumalo clan) broke…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… November at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. On 20 December 1991, the … South Africa (CODESA I). The first…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… Introduction Full feature on the History of Women’s struggle in South Africa will give a broader view of the role played by women in the struggle for…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was … in Pietermaritzburg with Alpheus Mthethwa,…
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
… period following June 16th. The biographies here are of some of these role players. This section of our site is currently being researched further, so the …
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… Communist state in Russia, we have already touched on many of the curriculum's remaining questions, but we will now … like health and education to the…
ArticleWages Commission
… Currie’s Fountain, three students from the Durban campus of the University of Natal –David Hemson, Halton Cheadle and David Davis - … their services. The…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Land and labour are two very important elements of the economic development of a society, and the way they are used will influence how … history there has…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… 2 000 and 1 700 years ago This topic focuses on the life of the first farmers of southern Africa and the ways we can find out about them. … people made tools…
Melinda Stuurman
… tuition – I dropped out and decided to work for a couple of years and then continue my studies. I worked at SBH Cotton … regret it for one moment. I studied…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… course that sought to put Africans back at the center of their history and highlight African agency. With only an overview of apartheid, students undertook…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
… from two factories called for the establishment of a union. Two months later, the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU), with the assistance of the GFWBF,…
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… The National Heritage Resources Act , no. 25 of 1999, aimed to introduce an interactive and integrated … Resources Agency (SAHRA) and Council. The…
Buddhism
… topic or have any content suggestions please click on one of the 'interact' menu options on the right. Buddhist monks … , in Buddhism, refers to two things:…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… as wagon drivers, etc. They suffered severely as result of the British "scorched earth policy" during which those who … to concentration camps, as were the…
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… 1999 the South Africa government commissioned the purchase of R30 billion worth of armaments specifically submarines and frigates from a … the whole country…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. 1961 Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister … scene." From Desmond Tutu's speech …
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… medical studies. 1964 Ebrahim and Abu, along with a group of likeminded students in Karachi, establish the Azania Youth … after he makes a complaint about…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… are captained by Joseph Twayi who becomes the Treasurer of the South African Native National Congress in 1915. They … Association joins FIFA, the first…
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… The Market Photo workshop is a division of the Market Theatre Foundation. Founded by renowned … that stimulate interactions and responses to a complex set of…
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… to the Progressive Party (PP), was formed after a group of liberal members of the United Party (UP), broke away to form a parliamentary opposition against…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… 1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in literature from the University of…