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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…
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…
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 ……
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 ,…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… as a residential area. 1912 Sophiatown has the first of its inhabitants. These are mainly white families 1912-1921 … to growth in the other adjacent freehold…
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…
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… (GFWBF) in 1972. They worked closely with Harriet Bolton of TUCSA. The aim of the GFWBF was, through worker organisations, to make workers aware of their…
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…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… blood. Woltons and La Guma17 versus all the rest, but some of the rest also versus Thibedi; the branches also bewildered at this excess of partisanship at…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 1
… The content listed below applies to the last 10 000 years of the Later Stone Age. Older Stone Age periods go back over hundreds of thousands of years…
Imvaba Arts Association
… in New Brighton, Kwazakhele and Motherwell townships of Port Elizabeth. It was a community organisation with the aim of promoting and assisting artists…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… Strikes in the Schools Presumably, not all students of the earlier generation 'worshipped the school authorities'! The first, recorded stoppages of lessons, …
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… The Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and … Sultan. In 1453, the Ottomans conquered the…
ArticleThe Homelands
… the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the Blacks population was moved to prevent them from living in the urban areas of South Africa…
ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
… are replaced by the Ntuli clan - it is unclear what became of the Ntuli clan 1843 George Cato, the first Durban mayor, … sell plots to Indian market…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… was prepared to condemn his treatment. The circumstances of his death were said to be inconclusive, and death was … damage. He was then driven, naked and…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… , which in the following years inspires the establishment of Namibian resistance movements. 1957 On the initiative of Andimba Toivo ya Toivo a small group of…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… 24, The Bulgarian Communist Party awards Dadoo the Order of Georgi Dimitrov. October 20 - 22, Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo … attends a conference in Berlin on 'The…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… The text that follows is a brief summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You can read far … In an interview, Nelson Mandela said: "With the…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
… an African youth. This incident resulted in a wave of violence, starting at the Indian market and soon spread throughout the suburbs of Durban and reached…
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union
… The birth of the Industrial and Commercial Union of South Africa (ICU) came about after the ICU strike in Cape … a general meeting in Bloemfontein, with the…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… an annual arts festival that takes place in communal areas of Cape Town and Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The … into unconventional spaces around the…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… a feudal society Glossary Feudal Society : The stage of society that preceded capitalism, during which a small … at their height, Europe was quite isolated…
ArticleFrontline States
… The collapse of apartheid and the advent of democracy in South Africa was regionally supported by a group of southern African states called the Frontline…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
… 1 January Battle of Artois and Champagne in France begins. 31 January 1915 The German Army makes use of poison gas for the first time in an attack on the…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… us your comments on this debate. We will be posting all of your comments on our blog. Pledging to Debate History The pledge proposed by the Minister of…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… 1994. There is little doubt that coming from a history of a racially divided society, people voted for their skin … historically white political parties…