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ArticleTswana
… the Nguni and Sotho account for the largest percentage of the total Black population. The major Sotho groups are the … 3 million in South Africa and 1…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… Imbeleko is the women's wing of the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO), formed in 1982 … struggle. Drawing its name from the Nguni tradition of carrying a…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… River and settled near a spring (fountain) in the vicinity of the current Old Presidency in Bloemfontein. He named his … a small pioneer house and laid down…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. Following the death of her husband Jimmy Bolton, Secretary of the furniture and garment…
The French Revolution
… On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in Paris. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution, which would last…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone through various shifts in … “historical moment, social…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… The rounding of the Cape and the establishment of the trade route to the Far East had far reaching … the Cape, but for Southern Africa. Firstly, ‘discovery’…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… The three Basotho Wars (1858-68) and the formation of Lesotho The conflict between the Basotho people and White … in what is now the Free State/ Lesotho area…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… ANC. In March 1982, Mandela together with senior members of the ANC was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor … accept these. For instance, in late…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… in 1990. The SWA territory was entrusted by the League of Nations to South Africa under an administrative mandate … movement in the early 1960s because it…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1995, armed youth gangs in Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed the homes and property of suspected undocumented migrants…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… This article was written by Jerry Saena and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … which assisted with her important role in…
Judaism
… Many Jews wear a tallit, or prayer shawl, to remond them of God's law. Sources: www.ida.net Jews, like Christians and … that God created everything and that…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… Prime Ministers from the NP (equivalent to the position of President today): Following constitutional reforms in 1984, the office of State President became…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… Africa between 2 000 and 1 700 years ago. The study of Iron Age archaeology provides a history for the majority of present-day southern African and South…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… Causes of the War The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of Independence because the conflict arose between the … in the Orange Free…
SAAAH: “Reception / Perception”
… emphasis from the author to the reader, or the production of art to its reception. Reception/perception problematises issues surrounding the discipline of…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the … the third and 11th centuries. 1804…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to participate. The aim of the referendum…
The National Arts Festival
… immigrants in South Africa. They established the tradition of celebrating landmark anniversaries on a grandiose scale … were held. The concept would grow to…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… The first sign of open resistance against payment of the tax came when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to … Kranskop Court, where they were each…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… land), with eventually only the western and northern areas of the Cape not dominated by them. 1500 The power of the Portuguese nation begins to decline. This…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… was in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992, the Bisho Massacre added to the bleak … took place on 7 September 1992 in Bisho,…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… - 1850) was as follows: There were three groups of people: The Xhosa, who had lived there for hundreds of years. The Trekboers, who moved into the area from…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… laws or land distribution has become integral part of the society, particularly from 2004 as generally … country’s democracy was 10 years old. The second…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… The EFF sees economic freedom as total ownership of economic and natural resources by the previously oppressed … own economic resources for the development…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… Cape Town has a long history of the struggle against racial discrimination and social injustice. Some of the earlier struggles against injustice manifested ……
10 YEARS PROJECT
… agree on a common commitment towards the resolution of the existing climate of violence and intimidation from whatever quarter as well as a commitment to…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli ,…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… swelled, overcrowding and rack renting became the order of the day. Black property owners in Sophiatown were … and lively community developed and it is this…