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BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… the Voortrekker youth movement and the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria . Six schools were named after … private papers are kept in the Institute…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the … segregation. Other legislation targeting Black African and Indian people were…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured laborers in Natal will take place across … raised similar questions: to what…
BiographyAubrey Levin
… to conscientious objectors and drug users. Levin has a history of drug abhorrence, with his doctoral thesis being a …
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. …
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
… Umkhonto we Sizwe , employing his academic background in history to compile a syllabus for political training.In 1979, …
BiographyMandla Langa
… the Foundation for Global Dialogue and South African History Online. He married June Josephs, owner of Xarra Books …
BiographyMoses Mabhida
… Swaziland, where his strong attachment to Zulu culture and history is said to have earned him the affection of the aged …
BiographyRobert Broom
… Africa" in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (1910) "Structure of Skull in Cynodont Reptiles" in … Sites: The Cradle of Humankind from …
BiographyElliot Shabangu
… members of the youth movement in the Transvaal on the history of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the … People and Freedom Charter: Transvaal”…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… for the event, was sung. In 1994, this iconic day in history was deemed to become National Woman’s Day. However, … frontline of this significant occasion in…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… apartheid (separateness) measures against Blacks, Indian immigrants and those of mixed race. 1949 October 6 , … the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) ,…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… South African racial groups: Black, White, Coloured and Indian. There are two ways in which these groups have been … by the apartheid government on the…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… and the post-war systems left Black, Coloured and Indian people completely marginalised. The authorities … any resistance by African mineworkers. Black,…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… term had been the most disastrous in South Africa’s history and that the measures to enforce apartheid would see … PW Botha to investigate a new constitution…
BiographyGlenn Moss
… campaign at Wits University in 1974, and planning the ‘History of opposition’ campaign in the same year, which aimed …
BiographyArchie Mafeje
… in his life at the time was Livingstone Mqotsi , a history teacher. After completing high school, Archie …
BiographyMimi Coertse
… a successful career. She became the youngest singer in the history of the State Opera to be appointed to the permanent …
BiographyNöel Robb
… as honorary life Vice President, in tribute to her long history of leadership and service to the organization. In …
BiographyMhlabunzima Joseph Maphumulo
… Seara-Robitaille and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship . … Pietermaritzburg Local History. (2010) Mhlabunzima Joseph Maphumulo , viewed 6 …
BiographyPixie Benjamin
… “List of people banned under Apartheid”, South African History Online, (Accessed 5 February 2020), … 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August”, South African…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… new theatre forms that drew on the country’s cultural history, the onus fell on independent initiatives. Some rural … to stage struggle plays (drama about…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… activist in the Non European United Front (NEUF) and the Indian Community raises his profile in the Communist Party. … or occupying properties in…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… African empire during the 15th and 16th Centuries, and the Indian Mughal Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries. This … The Mughal Empire : government and…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… Alliance comprising the [Coloured] Labour Party (LP), [Indian] Reform Party and the KwaNgwane homeland leader in … morning aged 95 left an indelible mark on…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… Ltd., in Cape Town since then. He is also writing the history of his family at the Cape. He serves in a voluntary capacity on the Boards of the South African…
Insurrections: The Storming
… 2011, to open a conversation between the imaginations of Indian and South African writers and musicians. The idea was … all too clearly our powerlessness at…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… 2011, to open a conversation between the imaginations of Indian and South African writers and musicians. The idea was … all too clearly our powerlessness at…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… in 1970s South Africa Abstract: Black, Coloured and Indian women faced harsh oppressions in the workplace during … shops were closing and the once lively…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… 13). Maharaj believes that women are not celebrated in history as they should be, even with their sacrifices in … her fatherAmod Abdul Carim was a South…