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ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… Communist Party member Moses Kotane is arrested. June 12, Professor Z. K. Matthews leaves South Africa to spend … the Defiance Campaign will commence on…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was … the next 5 Years. This will increase Exports output from 12,500 to 25,000…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… given access to water, through their own leading sluice. [12] To instil self-discipline the settlers had to maintain … wagons for 418 km’s to the end of the…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… struggle for freedom. Her child was Hector Pieterson. As a 12-year-old victim of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Hector …
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… substantial tolls and taxes, further enriching the state. 12 Mansa Musa (r. 1312-1337) Of all the rulers of Mali, none … of the medieval period in real-terms…
ArticleThe South African general elections: Introduction
… The Act, which served as the Union's constitution until 1961, created a parliamentary government along the lines of …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… Reminiscent of the Military-Industrial Complex (coined in 1961 in by President Dwight Eisenhower), Meyer Weinberg … industrial goods, American industries…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… presumably in the company of newfound families. 1686 16 February, The Dutch East India Company ship Stavemisse was … a British Colony. This was ratified by a…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… DDT Jabavu as president and Xuma as vice-president. 1936 12-14 February: The government summons Xuma to join the … Party of South Africa ’s newspaper…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… trial, he was imprisoned until 1959 and detained until 1961. Kenyatta became Prime Minister in 1963 and the … - A Leader of Black Africa (1952) The Age …
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… In Todd Matshikiza’s autobiography, Chocolates for My Wife (1961), which describes the exiled South African writer and … of being a Special Branch policeman …
A growing urban African population
… (later Western Coloured Township). In 1928 there were 12 000 people living in the three townships. By 1931, the … taking in tenants intensified. It was not…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. It is significant because it marks the end of…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… editorial in The International, March 23, 1971. Document 12: Editorial 'The Great Events in Russia', published in The International, November 16, 1917…
Indian South Africans timeline 2000s
… Indian South Africans Timeline: 2000 2008 16 November, Billy Nair is given a given a state funeral in … to the esteem he was held in as a fighter for…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… in the Western Cape 1943-1963 " , Social Dynamics, 12, 1, 1-14. Barrell, Howard (1990), The ANC's Armed … and Places, Johannesburg: Kayor. Sachs, Bernard (…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… in 1951, eventually resulting in Nkrumah’s release on 12 February that year. As Nkrumah stepped into institutional … YEARS IN AMERICA” The Black Scholar, vol…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… an important one. Sekhukhune versus the British On April 12, 1877, Sir Theophilus Shepstone annexed the Transvaal on …
BiographyGuy Tillim
… and Sculpture Park, Massachusetts, USA 2007 Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany Children in Conflict, Wolverhampton Art …
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… The South African mining industry shed 20,000 jobs in the 12 months leading to June 2013, and that trend was set to … over four years to meet the R12 500…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… included building bridges, schools and roads. [12] To some extent, the Great Deal built a platform for … War stimulated more economic growth than the New…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Laudium Established in 1960, Laudium, which is situated 12 km south-west of Church square, was set aside as the new … the State passed the Natives Urban…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908 Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to … Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January…
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… Chapter 11 The Final Prize: A Charge of Treason - Chapter 12 The Final Prize: Transition to Armed Struggle - Chapter 13 … Branch - Chapter 15 The Final Prize…
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… All preparations for the revolt were kept secret. On 12 January, several hundred mounted Herero invaded Okahandja. … They reached their destination on 9…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… this nature was the General Law Amendment Act, No. 39 of 1961. An amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act, this law allowed for 12 day detention without…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… defiance of these laws was justified. The trial ended on 12 June 1964, with the court sentencing eight of the … (MK) or the ‘Spear of the Nation’, which was…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… school students join the South African Students Movement 12 May, Saso holds formation school at Federal Theological … collude with security police who…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… economic policy and constitutional negotiations. 16 March, It was announced that talks between Government … a national membership drive, with membership fee…