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ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
Since South Africa’s advent to democracy in 1994, public protests either service delivery protest, protest against undemocratic laws or land distribution has…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… are currently in force on all funerals in over 70 black townships, while specific restriction orders are constantly …
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… of SRCs, as were football groups and gangs ( tsotsis ) in townships, who resorted to violence against members of ASM. …
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… such as Sophiatown , were being forcefully relocated to townships. Black students were denied proper education. Most …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… attempts to oust Indian merchants under Gold Law and Townships Act. August 21, Forwarded to Registrar of Asiatics … Indian merchants resolved to fight…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
The apartheid era was characterised by different resistances such as the Sharpeville massacre, Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976. The…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… human life and communities discriminated against—from the townships in South Africa to the “farthest corners of the …
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Security police began to eliminate ANC sympathisers inside townships rather than taking part in the lengthy process of …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
Introduction MK Sabotage. This photograph was part of a sequence shot by a Rand Daily Mail photographer, two of which were published in the and Daily Mail of…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. After he became embroiled in general student dissatisfaction with boarding…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
Nelspruit lies in the Lowveld, in the valley of the Crocodile River just below the great eastern escarpment of the Transvaal. Long before it acquired a…
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…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… the major cities of Port Elizabeth, East London and to the townships in Johannesburg; a few districts in the Eastern and …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… goes on strike. PAC youth takes control of the Cape Town townships of Langa and Nyanga, setting up roadblocks and distributing food. 30 000 residents of…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… businessmen in Soweto were seen as collaborators by the townships, radical youth, and many shops had been burned or …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… South Africa had ever seen was taking place in the townships. There was no censorship of the disturbances …
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… issues as workers struggles in factories and townships were indivisible and majority of the unions in this …
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… civics and other community organisations to rebuild our townships, restore services in rural and urban areas, while …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… and repressive violence raged continuously in the townships. It is during this period that documentary … are the tanks the government used when occupying the…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being…
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
… South Africa commences mass testing, particularly in townships and rural areas. Facilities such as drive through …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
The period 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade,…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… the demand for married miners to live with their wives in townships close to the mines. The only response from the …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 Walter returns from his…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South Africa in the mid to late 20th century. During this time…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of birth…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… others, joined the strike. Many strikers congregated in townships and some went to Gandhi’s Phoenix settlement. …
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
1924 5 December, Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe is born in Graaff-Reinet a town in the Cape Province. 1940 Sobukwe enrols at Healdtown Institute where he…