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ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… Traditional authorities were indispensable in the application of the provisions in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of rural South Africa designated as …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… time the ANCYL was established, political circumstances in South Africa were tenuous as the ruling United Party was divided about South Africa’s…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… Civic organisation also experienced problems in organising across the racial divide. Initially the emerging civic organisation in African township and…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… it lies west of the imaginary line that splits the world in two from top to bottom, the Greenwich meridian. There is … who had financed John Cabot's…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… In 1917 ordinary workers and rank and file soldiers overthrew the Tsarist autocracy that had been in power in Russia since the late 1400s. This became known…
ArticleKey sites
… Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These included Simon’s Cafe, … restaurants. Later on came Victory Lounge. It was here in…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… , the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa which was headed by Professor Francis … photographic project was one of the…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… collapsed. You can read about the crisis of Apartheid in the 1980s in section 5 of the grade 12 material. The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union was…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… oil tanker, ran aground on the rocks near Victoria Road in Oudekraal in the Cape on 29 July 1977. It was being towed to a wreckers … to the Kenilworth Castle…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2013 submissions
… Methodist University, where she is pursuing a double major in History and Human Rights. Born and raised in Texas, she would like to work for an international…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… Scramble for Africa. This British coined the term sometime in 1884, and it has since been used to describe the … powers were slow to realise the benefits of…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… brightest. What do 10 December 1961 , 1984 and 1993 have in common? 1961 - Albert Luthuli received the Nobel Peace … industrialist and inventor of dynamite,…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… accepted by both parties. The guidelines to be formulated in terms of the Report will be applied in dealing with members of all organisations, groupings or ……
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… sometimes referred to as Rooikoppies (red hills), is based in Rustenburg, in the North West province of South Africa. The town was established in 1870 and…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… I am a student at Principia College, a senior majoring in Political Science and minoring in Sociology and Anthropology. Project: Women Participation in…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… This section of the grade 10 curriculum was developed in 2009. While much of the content is still relevant to the … different. However, it provides for great…
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… Together with civic organizations, the youth played an in important role in the struggle against apartheid in the Western Cape. The first youth congress…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… van allerlei uiteenlopende elemente" which, "in uiterlike vorm eenheid probeer wys, maar wat innerlik … fusion will endure" Nine months later, after the…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… Cape Once revolutionary armies of France invaded Holland in 1795, the British feared that the French would take … Holland became known as the Batavian…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… shores of Table Bay they came into contact with Khoikhoi. In the summer months the Khoikhoi moved around between the areas of Table Bay, Swartland and…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… 1910 - 1919 1910 January 1, Indian Opinion reduced in size for financial reasons. January 6, Rev. Charles … with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the…
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… that appeared as the subsidiary of the Kaffrarian Watchman in September 1872. Whilst building a cottage to work from, … that cost three pence, now known as…
Durban an Overview
… In 1824 Nathaniel Isaacs obtained from Shaka, King of the amaZulu , a grant of land in the area immediately surrounding the bay of Durban. … Initially…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… the right of Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. 12 May, the Asiatic Inquiry Commission, appointed in February 1920 to inquire into…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its … consider whether to abandon…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… and resources from the 1810s as the start of the Mfecane. In the east: break-up of the Ndwandwe kingdom and rise of the … its consolidation under Dingane As…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… The Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930 Indians began settling in Natal from 1860 when the first indentured workers … a hundred thousand of Natal’s population of…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… when he involved European powers to gain recognition in Belgium. The Scramble for Africa took place during the New … African country of Ghana). European…
Work and education
… divided educational departments into one national system. In 1993, President FW de Klerk established the Education … the duplication inherited from the…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… from the Clakesburg Institute, a Teacher Training College in Transkei . 1939 Govan Mbeki publishes "Transkei in the Making" a work of political analysis…