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Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… 20 - 22, Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo attends a conference in Berlin on 'The joint struggle of the working class … a meeting of the African Communists and Workers…
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… the State of the Nation Address is not being delivered in the Chamber of the National Assembly. As we entered this … past year, government has built on its…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… Congress (PAC) is a political party whose presence in the South African political landscape spans just over half … (ANC). When the Freedom Charter was…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… Any omissions are unintentional as this timeline is a work in progress that will be added to over time. Please click on … to Orlando and ‘Coloured’ people…
ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
… emerged from the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) movement in Somalia . The ICU began as a loose grouping of Sharia … were driven from Mogadishu and suffered heavy…
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…
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…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… population grows exponentially as compared to growth in the other adjacent freehold townships of Newclare and Matindale. 1932-1937 Successful slum clearance…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleMads Nørgaard
… Mads Nørgaard, born in Denmark in 1987, is a photographer educated and living in South Africa. Mads has integrated himself into South …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…