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Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
1984-1990:- The people armedIntroductionNumerous factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government in the…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
In all countries where market-assisted land reforms have been undertaken, the outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The population…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in Bloemfontein. 11 September, Gerrit…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
1910 Anti-Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
1900 7 May, Paul Kruger addresses the volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
This period began with the intensification of the anti-pass campaign, which resulted in the banning of the ANC and the PAC following the Sharpeville Massacre…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
… also sung during the British Royal visit in 1947. In the 1960s, Zambia adopted the song as its national anthem. In …
BiographyGladstone Xala Tshume
Gladstone Xala Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… the skills to become an international figure. In the late 1960s, probably the summer of 1967, the government of …
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
… Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) in the 1950s and 1960s. When the ANC was banned in 1961, he became an …
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
… artists in their fight against Apartheid in the early 1960s. The talent of John and Nokutela Dube as fundraisers …
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
… group of white women jailed in South Africa in the mid-1960s. Moving to Johannesburg, Middleton was active in the …
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
… His parents received R6200 for compensation. During the 1960s, Dudley was banned and prohibited from taking part in …
BiographyHarold Wolpe
… several anti-apartheid figures in the 1950s and 1960s in political cases in court and helped plan …
BiographyBisho Jarsa
… older. Mr Alexander, who was a political prisoner in the 1960s, sharing Robben Island with Nelson Mandela , is today …
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
… to the massive exodus of jazz artists into exile in the 1960s and ’70s. But the release of Tshona! in 1975 with the …
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… history of Port Elizabeth during the turbulent 1950s and 1960s. His playmates included the children of political …
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… school named after him in Merebank, Durban. From the early 1960s PR served in the Durban Indian Child Welfare Society … Benevolent Home in Pietermaritzburg…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… as a deacon in 1958 and as a priest in 1960. In the early 1960s, Xundu participated in the formation of Faith in …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
Historians recognise the significance of popular struggles over the past 100 years. But debates among historians about their relationship to formal political…
Cape Town Civic and Community Organisations, 1980s
1990s: Women in the pre-election period
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
… Union of Southern Africa ) was established in the 1960s Britten became an indefatigable member in the Boland …
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
… and distributing ANC pamphlets and posters in the 1960s. In 1962, Pahad was arrested for organising an illegal …