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ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University … these problems, known as CODESA. Gender…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… friend Evelyn (at the time married to Mandela) was one of the bridesmaids. Dr Xuma, then president of the ANC, … Albertina was a founding member, but at…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… (1570-1612), with an ever increasing number of maps. 1644 One of the most decorative and popular of all early maps of … by the colorist [see the dotted lines…
BiographyAdam Small
… the University of the Western Cape (UWC) – of which he was one of the founders. Soon enough, Prof Small would find a … White people. Throughout his life, he…
BiographyLothar Neethling
… scientist. He gained two doctorates in chemistry, one of which was from the University of California. His … In the 1980’s Neethling found himself embroiled…
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led … the Namibian border. The fighting…
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 … ‘Africa’ was first used by the Romans to describe…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… people and goods travelled to the Mozambican coast, as part of the Boers’ geopolitical project of independence, … a village, then a town, then a municipality…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
… landscape, often finding remnants of early man such as one of his most treasured possessions, a flint cutting stone … much time in the Crossroads squatter…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… investigate history using people as a SOURCE. This means one day you can also be a source for another history … everything was right there within your reach…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… Cape While the Poqo remained inactive for most of 1960 and part of 1961, it was revived in 1961 with the formation of … men linked to Poqo in Paarl were…
Pottery, division of labour, trade, medicine and healing, hunting
… also gather food and do all the cooking. Lydenburg Head One set of pottery, known as the ‘Lydenburg heads,’ named … content for this section Hunting Hunting…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… economic and political discrimination of women. UWO had one structure with branches in various parts. Each branch was … maintained that the police shot…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… Mandela traces his lineage back to the Thembu Chief Nxeko, one of the early Thembu Kings who ruled over Thembuland, a … known as the Transkei and Ciskei…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… Disgrace (1999) explores many of the conventional themes one would expect from a novel set in post-apartheid South … as he tracks her down, suspecting…
BiographyAbdullah Ibrahim
… Opera and a 1983 musical that took place in Cape Town. One of the biggest concerts he played at was in Central Park …
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
… when they both returned to South Africa in 1901, Maxeke as one of South Africa's first Black woman graduates. Maxeke was … Activist, one of the first Black…
BiographyBongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa
… of the daily life of working South African women. Figure one: Removals series, Removals I, the past....the future. …
BiographyBishop Samuel Adjai Crowther
… of what an African could be. He educated his children, and one of his sons became Archdeacon Crowther. Bishop Crowther …
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
… April 1984 he married Jane Stephens in Swaziland. He was one of the patrons of the MTN Foundation. In 2002 …
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… for fourteen years at the University of Fort Hare and for one year at the University of Transkei. During his teaching …
BiographyJan van Eck
… Party MPs. As a Member of Parliament, Van Eck was one of the first sitting MPs to join the ANC after the …
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… was arrested for leading an illegal procession. Thema was one of the organisers of the All-African Convention (AAC) …
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… in South Africa. He wrote: 'Assassinations used as one of the methods of controlling government opposition when … on 29 April 2009]| “At last, a memorial to…
BiographyDean Hutton
… photographer of the Mail & Guardian, a Ruth First Fellow, one of the 200 Top Young South Africans, was awarded an …
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
… he attacked them. At a mass rally to inaugurate SACTU’s “one pound a day” campaign in the 1950s, Gaetsewe stated that …
Rebecca Lan
… discussion group that encouraged young people to take part in the various campaigns which were organised in Cape …
Christianity
… in Jesus. They say that God combines three persons in one. This is called the Trinity. Christians believe that god … comes from the Greek word for book, …
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
… African Parliament against the provisions of the Bill. As one of the joint secretaries of the SAIC, Barmania addressed … of the Bill. Barmania’s Senate…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… was the world like around 1600? Europe is considered as one of the world’s major super powers which played a … role in Southern Africa’s development. For…