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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… guilty of robbing Khoi-Khoi of their cattle, fastens a document accusing the government of tyranny and stating that …
ArticlePoverty and development
One of the most important issues for women in South Africa has always been that of poverty. During the apartheid years, black women were forced into the rural…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in Mitchells Plain…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
For some time there had always been a question in peoples' minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of the People in 1955, to take place. In…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Gertrude Fester Biography Abstract …
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… December 2015, his team leaked a confidential government document to close Gupta associates. The cabinet's master plan … before President Jacob Zuma and his…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… The AAM came to regard Luthuli’s statement as its founding document. According to Kader Asmal: ‘If any event galvanised … of Churches, attended the launch in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TIMELINE — 2011 – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma delivers the traditional ANC…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
1910 February 26, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi supports the African Peoples’ Organisation (APO) resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was little to attract other…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… organization which the accused supported or joined. ‘Any document’ found in the possession of the accused or any …
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… Commission which appeared in April 1944 was a shameful document. It accepted the basic premise of the mine owners; …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… was the decade in which the Freedom Charter, the central document of the anti-racist movement, was written on the …
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… political interest in her letters, and that Head wanted to document and cover the racial injustices she faced throughout …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
The history of the struggle against racial oppression and exclusion in South Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle of workers against…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… A pass book The term ‘pass' was used to describe any document that curtailed an African's freedom of movement and … Charter. The Women's charter was adopted…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
The first treason trial in South African history post apartheid regime is under way amid high security at the Pretoria High Court, with a group of alleged…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
“The time comes in the life of a nation when there remain only two choices –submit or fight”. In 2005 Dr Garth Benneyworth (Sol Plaatje University) located a…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the adoption…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
1948 26 May, DF Malan's National Party government follows up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
South African and World leaders
… across the globe. This profile is a focus of the CAPS document; SAHO will continue to develop content on MK Gandhi. …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
OriginsOne of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed response…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
The word fascism is used to describe any form of dictatorial, right wing, anti-Communist form of government. Nazi Germany became a fascist country under…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… long-awaited draft of a new constitution is completed. The document has to be approved by parliament and proposes …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… 5 July, Nelson Mandela meets with P. W. Botha. In a document prepared for this meeting, Mandela states that 'I …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… heart of the conflict." [30] Beyond the Barricades is a document of a revolution resolved to succeed. Two photographs …