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ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… trade union activities. After the Durban strike thousands of workers joined the fund. Amongst other activities, the GFWBF acted as watchdog looking after the…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 4: Communication through time
… how communication has changed over time and how many forms of communication have stayed the same. We first learn about the oldest forms of communication,…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2014
… The Nelson Mandela timeline tracks the history of the first democratically elected president of South Africa through his childhood in rural Transkei, the…
Learning about history through writing
… played in the event. Did you guess the Rugby World Cup of 1995? Well done! Investigating the Rugby World Cup 1995: written sources One of the easiest ways to…
ArticleIsitwalandwe/Seaparankwe Award
… is the highest honour awarded by the people of South Africa, through the African National Congress, to … literally translated, means "the one who wears the…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… Street, Sophiatown, it was the first establishment of this kind for Africans. According to ‘Bantu World’, Mohl … encouraging African talent through bringing…
ArticleProvincial Leaders
… Executive body ( the Cabinet, who are also members of Parliament) and independent Judiciary (the Courts). The … have been passed in Parliament. For example…
ArticleSoweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC)
… fired on and came to be known as the famous Soweto Revolt of June 16. The SSRC had mobilised students to protest the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of…
Provincial government and symbols
… Go to the places section of the SAHO site, and read about the South Africa’s nine … ‘map.htm’ 1. Fill in the names of the…
Antony Kaminju
… 1972. Resides in Johannesburg. Studied at University of the Witwatersrand, International Institute of Journalism, Berlin, Kenya Polytechnic and the Market…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs , this was a union of women factory workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and 1930s…
The French Revolution Activity
… The three men in the picture stand for the three Estates of the Old Order. Look at the picture, then answer the following questions in groups of two…
CAPS Grade 4: Intermediate Phase History - Term 1
… to local history. Content and concepts Finding a variety of kinds of information about the history of a local area · How we find out about the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… Salt law on March 5, by the British District Magistrate of Surat under Regulation XXXV of 1827 and removed to Yeravda Prison. There was no trial, no ……
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1920-1929
… days' fast following rioting and bloodshed on occasion of Prince of Wales' visit. 1922 March 10, Gandhi: Arrested at 10.30 in … car. Lodged in Sabarmati…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… 1870s-1880s Discovery of a reliable water source. "To the present generation … where today the motor racing fans seek the thrills of highly tuned motor…
Other organisations related to the ANC
… Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) South … Congress (TIC) United Democratic Front (UDF) Federation of South African Women …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… The Yusuf Dadoo timeline includes the history of one the leading members of the South African communist movement. Starting at the beginning of the South…
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… January 1976, a group of people with Mosima Sexwale are taken by two cars a Fiat … in Swaziland to Tim Maseko’s house who is the principal of St Christopher…
Learning about local history through pictures
… In this lesson we will investigate the history of different local areas and local events using these … Did you know that a picture says a 1000 words; what a…
ArticleNational Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR)
… National Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR) is a network of Christian individuals, congregations and organisations … It was launched in 1985 by Michael…
ArticleBonani Africa Online Exhibition 2010
… Many of the essays in the Bonani Africa 2010 Exhibition that straddle the twin worlds of social comment and the exploration of the everyday. The space…
Karen Nieuwoudt
… I was born on the 11th of September 1965. I grew up in Johannesburg in an Afrikaans family. I went to the University Of Pretoria where I obtained a BA Degree…
ArticleDISA Archive
… scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa, particularly the struggle for freedom during … the first democratic elections in…
The National Tree
… family is primeval and has been present in this part of Africa for more than 100 million years. The species is … along the southern and eastern Cape coast,…
Grade 4 Archive
… that is no longer required in the curriculum. Origins of major world religions reflected in SA: Religion is an important part of millions of people's lives…
ArticleMaritime history and heritage: shipwrecks
… Shipwrecks have always held a specific allure. The promise of hidden treasure, the unexplored and underwater adventure … provide maritime archaeologists with…
ArticleIndian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIU
… industry in significant numbers from 1960 while the number of Indian men employed in clothing factories, until then in the majority, started to decline. In…
ArticleMcGill University Project
… with South African History Online (SAHO). Over the course of two months, 16 students in this programme liaised with a team of SAHO researchers and who…
Why did so few Black South Africans make films before the 1990s?
… There are less than a handful of black directors who made films before the 1990s. The … for this are the same reasons that kept black people out of other…