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ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… enforcement of an Apartheid State, it took time for the world to take notice and action. That said, one year before … country to appeal to the UN on the…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… were used to restrict the movement of non-European South Africans was in the early 1800’s. However, slaves at … hunters streamed into the country from all…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… will from their homes will be illustrated further below. South Africa has experienced a long history of forcible … as urban areas expanded and circumstances…
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
… as chief in the same year. In 1915, during the First World War (1914-1918), he recruited 60 men from among his followers whom he escorted to Upington to…
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… international tension - encompassing the Spanish Civil War, the Anschluss (union) of Germany and Austria, Hitler's … This date is generally held to be the…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… Prior to the passage of apartheid laws both Black and White South Africans played rugby, albeit separately. After the … facilities. During South Africa's…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… Museum Review) SOLDIERS WITHOUT REWARD Africans in South Africa's Wars by J S Mohlamme Introduction and … in 1894, they drafted three Bakgatla regiments in…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century . Published by Human … father, Gus, founded the Ackermans chain…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… Heritage is what we have inherited from the past. Each of South Africa’s nine provinces is rich in diverse heritage … of gold found deep underground. Forty…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… strictures and injustices of racism and apartheid meant in South Africa. News had just arrived in Bizana that the Second World War had ended, and…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… army at 17 and served in Egypt and then Italy. Following World War 2 he began studies in agriculture at Cambridge. He left … this university in his first…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest proof of hominids has been … worked out a theory that, according to…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… Angola and Mozambique and on 11 June 1977 he returned to South Africa as a cadre, heavily armed, through Swaziland to … in the country. On the way Motloung…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important … was both strategic and economic. During the Cold War, South Africa was of…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… depth and breadth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. This Grade 12 classroom section gives a broad … they lived in. For example, people…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… The Afrikaner ideal of a republic South Africa only became a Republic on the 31st May 1961 , … and by 1902 at the end of the Anglo-Boer or South African War,…
BiographyChris McGregor
… he became exposed to Xhosa culture and music. During World War II, his father joined the Navy and Chris moved to stay … African Sound. McGregor and the Blue…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
… For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to … 1918, which was the first in Africa and the second in the world. This was followed by…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… role in shaping the social and political scene in South Africa. The missionary influence was both positive and … land. Many of the influential kholwa openly…
BiographyOprah Winfrey
… Films, & Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy For Girls, in South Africa. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of … maid, and her mother was a slave. I feel…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… and finance, to allow international participation of South Africa in global affairs and to elect a constituent … Prior to CODESA Harare Declaration The End…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… sex among gay men. The first official case of AIDS in South Africa is reported. A South African man contracted the … Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV. October,…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late … by British forces in 1879. The…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… of wine farmers and their dependants. At the end of the South African War in 1902, the large incidental markets for Cape wines and … the largest, most…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
… Her tertiary career was done through the University of South Africa (UNISA), where she graduated cum laude in a … for the Department of Defence in Pretoria…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. … no vote, nor were white women…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the “Mother of … economic and political changes, determined by…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… articles & documents NANA SITA: LAST OF THE GANDHIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA (2) Among those who kept the spirit of Mahatma … became secretary of its Pretoria…
BiographyRick Turner
… Turner, working-class English parents who had settled in South Africa. Paddy had earlier been to South Africa when he fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War …
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… barred Indians from Natal entering other provinces of South Africa , and prohibited them from visiting other … whites. The membership increased tremendously…