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ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… in present day Congo brought together different cultures under a single authority and used the Congo River as a main … joined with each other like the Chokwe…
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… Having no secure right to the land, the settlers construct homes from scrap metal and found wood; and despite …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… moving the fighting people of Namibia to assured victory, under the leadership of Swapo. Once more we can say the … statement made by Botha that the…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Helen Joseph Avalon Cemetery, Johannesburg, 30 March 1996
… Tambo and others, a feeling of deprivation comes to mind. Under the leadership of these noble South Africans our nation … how our country would have been…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… there in 1880. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 December 1985. Although … administration. It was declared a National…
PlaceFourteen Streams
… in Rhodesia. On 16 October 1899 a local force of 270 men under Police Inspector Snow withdrew from Fourteen Streams to Kimberley, and the following day a…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… administered by the British South African Company (BSAC) under the name Rhodesia and the Responsible Government under the name Southern Rhodesia. Both…
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven Bothma, who then established a … of the Currey family, and was…
PlaceRhodes
… War. On 2 December 1899 they were joined by a second group under General J H Olivier. On 23 June 1901 Boer forces under Commandant Fouche returned to Rhodes…
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… pre-natal and HIV-treatment seems to be the most common. Under the Constitution of South Africa , women received …
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… (MAGO) and Muslims Against Illegitimate Leaders (MAIL) under which it launches anti-Western campaigns. PAGAD's …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… politics in South Africa. Before the war, the Labour Party under Colonel Cresswell was the predominant party political …
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… North and Zululand University. These institutions, created under the Extension of the University Education Act, Act 45 …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… class. 4 February, The depleted Natal Indian Congress under the leadership of A.I. Kajee group declares that the … meeting. 15 May, The Indian Penetration…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… had once again lost their republics and were again brought under British rule. From this time, until the formation of … the traditional way of life of the…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… established: the Ndzundza, Manala and Litho, which fell under the jurisdiction of Bophuthatswana, and Pungutsa, which fell under Lebowa. The four areas were…
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… Sekhukhune's country was included without any question under Britain's new possessions. Sekhukhune did not accept … to subdue Sekhukhune, a fully equipped…
EventSekhukhune successfully resists the Boers
… war on Sekhukhune and his followers. A Boer commando under President T.F. Burgers, armed with 7 pounder Krupp … and went home, leaving a corps of volunteers…
Message from Dr. AB Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations, 22 January 1946
… by UNO Trusteeship Council. Mandate over territory was under article 22 covenant League Of Nations. Africans South … in Mission Schools. 95 per cent africans…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… war ends with the restoration of the Transvaal Republic under the Pretoria Convention. Indians enter Transvaal and … incorporated into it. 1934 United Party…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… of land reform. While land dispossession had been achieved under white minority through violence and racially … 2014. November, A Land Tenure Conference is…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… had been ‘deserted’. A map of the rise of the Zulu Empire under Shaka during the Mfecane. Source In the 1850s, when the … who had claimed it first. A map of…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… from their government schools, not wanting them to learn under the Bantu Education system. The apartheid state … continue as privately run schools rather…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… not to cooperate with the Feetham Commission , appointed under the Asiatic Land Tenure Amendment Act of 1932 … in certain areas where Indians resided being…
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… I, the better trained we are, seem more disposed to work under orders and direction of others against and away from … which disfranchise the most qualified…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… I, the better trained we are, seem more disposed to work under orders and direction of others against and away from … which disfranchise the most qualified…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… The Transvaal Power Act (1910) effectively put electricity under state authority and as a public service. It was a … in 1948. This kind of state intervention…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… Nile river through to the uniting of Upper and Lower Egypt under one Pharaoh. We learn about their beliefs and religion … rule of omnipotent rulers. All of…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… the consummation of this first All-Student Congress held under the auspices of the National Union of S. A. Students. A … took place at an earlier stage of…
24. Muslim traders petition against Free State law of 1884
… 2.That the undersigned are regarded as coloureds under Ordinance no. 18 of 1884, and are compelled to pay each 10s. head tax; this they have done under…