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National Theatre Organisation (1947)
… to promote and produce Afrikaans and English theatre in South Africa. The organisation was developed as a … that had expressed the need for the state to…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… of the South African national rugby team, the Springboks, in international rugby is rife with controversy. In the 1960s, as international criticism of…
ArticleWorld War I
… War. The main belligerent European countries involved in the War were imperial powers with large colonial territories in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… to Lesotho became known as the Sotho, but many remained in the area today known as Phokeng, about 10km north of … the Fokeng, led by Chief Sebitwane,…
ArticleJune 16 Youth Uprising casualties
… of death Adams, Sandra Joyce Kew Town 15 16.9.76 Shot in front of head (ricochet) on 3rd floor balcony Adriaanse, … side of abdomen Allie, Abduraghman…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth League, a new leadership came to power in the…
ArticleMads Nørgaard
… Mads Nørgaard, born in Denmark in 1987, is a photographer educated and living in South Africa. Mads has integrated himself into South …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid … South African scientists have been…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). … Makiwane , Vella Pillay and Abdul…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg in connection with the agitation at present going on in the Transvaal against the…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… was bewildering and the transition unexpectedly confusing. In “solitary” I was unable to communicate with family, … was contrasted by an endless need to talk…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… to as the Cold War. This lesson will focus on the change in the balance of power after World War II and rivalry … tension between the Allies after the end of…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion Christian Church [i] . Its members, … estimated to number between 2 million…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… ex-Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) members in the Western Cape began organising themselves from as early … 1978 and eventually formed the United…
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… Street is one of the most historically significant streets in Cape Town . The street was named after Charles B Adderley, … the Old Slave Lodge Museum, Groote…
The National Tree
… The Yellowwood family is primeval and has been present in this part of Africa for more than 100 million years. The … Table Mountain, along the southern and…
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
… director. The first office premises were two small offices in Acutt Street, Durban. They would later move to the Arts Centre 43 in Albany Alley for three…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… It was adopted at the inaugural conference and included in the final report of the conference. Preamble: We, the … that discriminate against us as women, and…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to … Despite evidence to the contrary a…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… provides a brief introductory overview of the settlements in the Limpopo Valley before Mapungubwe, and a brief … of a much larger political scale than had…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save the continent from sinking. [i] The Millennium Development Goals was introduced in…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… at the Cape 1652 The DEIC (Dutch East India Company) in the Netherlands was set up in 1602 to trade. In 1647, the Haerlem, a Dutch trading ship, was…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an … Bolton, Secretary of the furniture and…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 … became the country’s leading party…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… Britain was getting more confident about taking action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial … Rhodes to try to develop and promote the…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… to the 1660s. When Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape in 1652, he had with him a small contingent of soldiers, … attacks from the original inhabitants of…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… the City is an annual arts festival that takes place in communal areas of Cape Town and Mbombela, Mpumalanga, … both South African as well as international…
America, Spanish conquest
… All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave Trade The content below has been ……
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… Campaign and detained under the State of Emergency in 1960 . He was first banned in 1962. From 1978 to 1990 he was bound by the restrictions … had aggravated…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was founded in 1973. It organised in the passenger transport, goods transport, stevedores, … workers’ strike…