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ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's history in the last sixty years. Many of them were linked to … the authors themselves. The stories…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… use of technology or reflect important stages in human history. A place where humans settled and used the land in a … World Heritage Sites must show major…
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… Lebowa, QuaQua, Swazi Homeland and Venda. In 1974 the establishment of a tenth homeland, South Ndebele, was …
EventP.W. Botha proposes a 'Constellation of States'
… on a one man, one vote system. Instead, he proposed the establishment of the “Constellation of States” for South … Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern…
EventVoortrekker leader Andries Pretorius dies
… achievements, Pretorius was also instrumental in the establishment of the short-lived Natal Republic as well as …
EventSouth African Airways is given permission to fly over the bulge of Africa as negotiations to end apartheid gain momentum
… on the country by the international community. Since the establishment of apartheid in 1948, various attempts had been … 25 May 2012]|SAA Museum, ' South…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… ask different questions about the past. Knowledge of history grows and broadens as more archaeologists find … school students in South Africa only learnt…
Statement at the International Labour Conference (extract) by O. R. Tambo, Geneva, 19 June 1986
… which marks the final days of the apartheid system of colonial and racist domination. The extraordinary challenge … come as no surprise. After all, apartheid…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Labour Conference,19 June 1986
… which marks the final days of the apartheid system of colonial and racist domination. The extraordinary challenge … come as no surprise. After all, apartheid…
ArchiveThe international situation
… the 3rd-5th of January, 1962. This paper outlines the anti-colonial struggles of the oppressed around the world. The …
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
… as well as freedom from want and fear. Throughout her history, Africa has had her own men and women who have shone … of the Vorster regime, therefore,…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… The African National Congress (ANC) also had a long history of internationalism. In 1906, a delegation from the … held In Brussels in 1927, where ANC…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… Jon Soske Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of History University of Toronto 2009 ABSTRACT My dissertation … terms of employment, Natal’s sugar…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… became the scene of the most sustained uprising in the history of the country. Strike activity on the rise A strike … affiliates. May Day 1986 saw the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… and hated by those who sought to keep this continent a colonial appendage of an imperial Power. In the new … put it, "to practise justice is to practise…
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
… especially women prostitutes. Her work resulted in the establishment of a formal 'Rescue House,' which soon became …
EventWalvis Bay is handed over to Namibia
… between the South African and Namibian governments and the establishment of a transitional Joint Administrative … Walvis Bay, History of Walvis bay, from…
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
… as growing resentment between the farmers and the British colonial authorities. The farmers argued that because the colonial government limited the…
EventMozambique gains independence
… After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique became independent as People's …
SAHO Milestones
… 2000 June - Registration of SAHO as an NGO South African History Online (SAHO) was established in 2000, as a … Kala Pani: Caste and Colour in South Africa…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… black women applauded and supported James Mpanza's establishment of Shantytown in 1944 in defiance of the … thus became ANCWL members. It was also made clear…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… participation in World War II. Four years after the establishment of the Youth League, the United Party’s rule … Subsequently, the unbanning of the ANC…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… Incident. A 1971 General Assembly resolution condemned the establishment of homelands. In 1974 there was a resolution to … and there was a customs union…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… BY THE GUN! The gun has played an important part in our history. The resistance of the black man to white colonial intrusion was crushed by the gun. Our…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to a joint sitting of both houses of the parliament of Lesotho Maseru, 12 July 1995
… of a nation that, more than any other, has shared the same history as our own South African nation. We have fought the … as our own. The achievement of your…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … drawn by Mr. Smith and presented to the Honourable the Colonial…
Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
… events that marked significant developments in the history of human relations. It reminds us of the Berlin … of the Declaration on the Granting of…
EventGhana is declared a republic
… Ghana became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence on 6 March 1957. On … GhanaWeb,Political History,from GhanaWeb,…
PlaceBenin
… Benin’s political history after colonialism was characterized by an early … traditional north/south socioeconomic division of early colonial development, but…