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ArticleSources task: The Berlin Wall
… War? 3. What is meant by the military rivalry mentioned in this source? 4. Name and briefly describe one incident … War? 3. What is meant by the military…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… M. (2004). Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa, Cape Town: HSRC Press, pp 43-44, … by the Khoikhoi leaders at the so-called peace…
ArticleMapungubwe
… 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province on the border between South Africa, … to have been the centre of the largest…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… 2009 marked 100 years since Yusuf Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, West Rand on 5 September. Today, he like many … liberation, socialism, non-racialism and…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… of National Unity. After the first democratic election in 1994, 19,726,579 votes were counted and 193,081 were … rejected as invalid. The African National…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major political significance. In his message to…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… inequality which kept all races separate from one another. In 1994, Mandela was of key importance in negotiating the freedom and equality of all South ……
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… known as the African Political Organisation is formed in Cape Town . 1910 Union of South Africa, which would be … Isaka Seme and Sol Plaatje . It has been…
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) came into being in 1996 when communities on the Cape Flats, Cape Town decided … and violence akin to terrorism. PAGAD…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… Soon after his death, Lenin's body was embalmed and placed in Moscow's Red Square. His supporters, attempting to develop … death. Stalin's regime is recorded…
Glossary: Transport through time
… about the period before Christ and before the fall of Rome in the year 476. Archaeologist Somebody who studies ancient … animal's sexual organs. Common…
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… A person who officially represents his or her government in another country. Banish Send someone away from a place and … families with a common forefather…
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… when this land was expropriated to make way for an airport in 1953, they were relocated to the District of Odi, where … features, including a number of…
ArticleIndia, Mughal Empire, 16-19th Century
… Uzbekistan. The Moghuls conquered almost all of south Asia in the 16th century. The Emperors ruled over a population … easily storm them. When the enemy's…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… Context In the early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of resistance in the country. Its solution was to arrest key people and … so…
Introduction
… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - … a dramatic cooling of the political temperature manifested in a rapid and marked decline in the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… commissioned by The Department of Education Turning points in history are not fixed. We decide when they occur, to a large extent on the basis of where we…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… In around 2300 BP (Before Present), hunter-gatherers called the San acquired domestic stock in what is now modern day Botswana. Their population grew, … half…
SAAAH: “Reception / Perception”
… Post-structuralist discourse has resulted in a shift in emphasis from the author to the reader, or the production … the latter being a field still strongly…
ArticleNew light on ‘76 uprising
… Hector Peterson was not the first person to be killed in the 1976 Soweto uprising, a new book sensationally claims. … the first casualty. Pat Hopkins and…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 5 - The Politics of Socialism
… institutions are for. Why are they necessary at all? In a very small society, such as an independent tribe of a … both of us, and the other can, if necessary…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… [1] Opposition to the participation by the NIC in the Colonisation Commission appointed by the Union Government in 1933, some members of the NIC resigned and…
The South African Human Rights Commission
… of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in South Africa, including the government, and all laws are … , which it describes as the 'cornerstone of…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… Women (FEDSAW or FSAW) was launched on 17 April 1954 in Johannesburg as the first attempt to establish a … This was the brainchild of Ray Simons who drew in…
Address of President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the opening of the second session of the Democratic Parliament Cape Town, 17 February 1995
… guests, Ladies and gentlemen: We have gathered in this hallowed chamber to begin the work of the second … parliament, nine months after its first members…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… Russia. Why was it called the ‘Cold War’ ? The reason lay in the threat of new and even deadlier weapons of nuclear … nuclear races, and sport. Besides…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… the scandal. Dr. Mulder was the Minister of Information in John Vorster's government. Moreover, he was tipped to … would ruin his political career. The…
Andrew Tshabangu
… (1998) and at the Alexandra Community art centre in Johannesburg (1991). He was awarded a scholarship by the Gasworks Art Studios in London (1998) and taught…
TCOE Online Exhibition
… are concerned with the crucial issue of land rights in South Africa. They are adapted from a rural people's … was designed to: give insight into rural life…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… power if negotiations failed. He suffered a heart attack in detention and underwent a heart by-pass operation. While … leadership group of the African…