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Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Regular elections have been a feature of South Africa’s political landscape since the establishment of Union of South Africa in 1910. With the adoption of…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… 1500-1800 This period is marked by the advent and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central … reluctance to work for them, they…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches , first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… and will continue to clear up.” [i] - P.W Botha The memory of District Six, also known as Kanaladorp [ii] (kanala is a … word meaning ‘help one another’), is…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an important development for South African …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth" (Plaatjie, S.T. (1916). Native Life in South Africa, London: PS King, p.21.) With the…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… The colonisation of Africa was part of a global European process reaching all the continents of the world. European colonisation and domination changed …
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… The majority of Indian South Africans are the descendants of indentured workers brought to Natal between 1860 and 1911 … the sugar industry in this province…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art South…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… formally established the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of South Africa in 1652. The history of the church has been very much bound with the politics of the…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the … the uprising had effectively been…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… influenza pandemic broke out, that led to the deaths of 50 million people worldwide. The pandemic spread … America over a twelve-month period between the…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… African indigenous groups have so captured the interest of the world as have the South amaNdebele of the central highveld, an area previously known as the ……
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of 1859 is passed. This law made it possible…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations … under which Black rural people live. The picture of…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… (1918–1990) already a state within a state by the end of the 1940s, saw it as its mission to think and dream for … I come so far in the struggle with such…
The South African Human Rights Commission
… South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in South Africa, including the government, … the…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… as “what may turn out to be the most important exhibition of the 1990s”, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale , which opened … as appointed by Christopher Till,…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… economic impoverishment, and exclusion from citizenship of Africans. Part one examines the historical roots of apartheid, from the colonial occupation of…
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… [1943] Document 1 In spite many leading representatives of the Coloured and Malay people, the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Lawrence, has declared that the…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… What is heritage and identity? Questions of heritage and identity are not as straightforward as they … there is not one heritage, or an easily delineated set…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… Very little is known about the languages of South Africa's San people, as most of these beautiful, ancient languages were never recorded. … was recorded…
Local Government
… When disaffected groups of Dutch farmers from the Cape reached the Trans-Gariep … rural and agrarian in nature. Their constitution of 1858 divided the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… throughout the 1950s and earlier 1960s. The end of the fifties brought about the emergence of protest literature, a shift from the more entertaining stories…
National Orders Recipients
… South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion and discrimination on the basis of sex, colour and creed. The country has been steadily ……
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… deaths. What made the war significant was the sheer scale of the conflict and the gross violation of Human Rights. All the great powers were involved as the …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… ICC Origins In the aftermath of the Second World War (1939-1945) the international … The Agreement included a charter for the establishment of an…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… The Mfecane roughly starts at this time. 1818 Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa leads all his forces against Zwide of the Ndwandwe and is seized in an ambush and…
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
… A case can reach the Constitutional Court in a variety of ways: as the result of an appeal from a judgment of the High Court or the Supreme Court of Appeal;…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… Written by: FRANCO FRESCURA The exploitation of convict labour at the Cape during the Colonial era is closely connected with the work of John Montagu,…