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Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… had an especial role in the social and cultural politics of South Africa. This paper will trace its function in the … from the early 1950s until the 1990s,…
BiographyCharles Makhohliso
… better conditions for brick workers. The Chairperson of the Langa Batchelors Quarters branch of the African National Congress (ANC) , Makhohliso had a…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
… The implication was clear, many Afrikaners, including some of their political leaders, hoped and believed that Hitler … the underground leadership of the…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… Honourable Speaker, President of the Senate, Honourable Prime Minister Arthur Napolean … and Senators, Allow me, on behalf of the African National Congress…
BiographySibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa
… was born in 1952. After joining the African National Congress’ military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1977, Mbongwa commanded a number of units in…
BiographyColonel Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa
… was born in 1952. After joining the African National Congress’ military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1977, Mbongwa commanded a number of units in…
BiographyCheryl Carolus
… Cheryl Carolus was born on 20 April 1959 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town to a working class family. Her father was … Organisation (UWO), which became the…
Military training and camps of the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa, 1961–1981 by Gregory Houston, Thami ka Plaatjie and Thozama April, (Historia ,60,2), November 2015
… Military training and camps of the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa, 1961–1981 by Gregory Houston, Thami ka …
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
… at St Ansgars Institution, Roodepoort, in the then Union of South Africa from 1942 to 1943, and Pax College, in … in Johannesburg. Dingake joined the …
BiographyDennis Brutus
… moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of four he attended Paterson High School. He graduated from … and was an organiser with the Teachers’…
BiographyIsaiah Stein
… was born to a Coloured family in Durban in 1931, the son of a pastor and property developer. After both his parents … he became the chief organiser of the…
ArticleHistory of South African National Orders and Awards
… The birth of a new non-racial and non -sexist democracy in South Africa necessitated a critical review of the system of National Orders. The previous system…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… The period preceding the formation of the South Africa Union witnessed the establishment and … black led political forces such as the African National…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… were victorious. Later, the day was commemorated as part of the Afrikaner nationalist project. This article traces some of the main events that make up the…
The State of Art in South Africa Conference
… Held at the University of Cape Town from 16-20 July 1979, The State of Art in South Africa Conference was chaired by Neville Dubow, then head of the…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… note: This topic's content was written in 2003 and is part of the old curriculum content, we have modified it slightly … motive for imperialism was to obtain…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… areas in the Afrikaner republics and with the creation of the Union in 1910 and later under the Group Areas Act and other segregationist laws. While the…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… bands, most notably The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood of Breadth. Through this mutually felt discrimination, … and drummer Louis Moholo. Pukwana spent the…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The … South Africa gained its independence,…
ArchiveA study of the theoretical aspects of ANC mobilisational methods in the Eastern Cape Townships of Cradock and Port Alfred, 1980-1988
… A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Magister Artium in … aspects of the mobilisational of the African National…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… image from there to insert in this section. South Africans of Indian origin comprise a diverse community distinguished … brought to the Cape. In the decades…
History of the Labour Movements in South Africa
… The history of working people, and particularly Black workers, to … struggle against racism and national liberation. The roots of Trade Unionism and…
ArticleNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu’s “Mother of the Nation” Legacy
… been cultivated from a young age when she had to take care of her siblings, stepping in for her mother who had fallen ill with the Spanish flu of 1918 . As a…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Commission … ‘resorting to radical measures’ for…
ArticleSouth African Association of Art Historians (founded 1984)
… Who is SAAAH? About SAAAH The South African Association of Art Historians (SAAAH), founded in 1984, is the major professional association of art historians…
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… Savannah, eventually resulting in the infiltration of several SADF forces and a clash between the South African … conflict. July 1975 FNLA…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… The word fascism is used to describe any form of dictatorial, right wing, anti-Communist form of government. Nazi Germany became a fascist country under ……
Amos Ndwalane
… who escaped the noose by seven days due to the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990, was allowed out of his hospital bed … He was saved…
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
… 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From … to stand trial. He was chairman of…
BiographyKlaas Matlala
… van, which already held other compatriots. He was a Ma-Congress [ African National Congress - ANC)] supporter and key member of the kgoro , and had opposed…