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ArticleHealth and welfare
… South Africa is a country of relative prosperity, with vast … informal settlements and amongst women. According to the South African constitution , all…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… [2] As a result of her death and the rise in femicide in South Africa, hundreds of protestors took to the streets with #Am I … Africa are unsafe in a crime…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… society, people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution' … This Constitution is one of the…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the founders of the … of the Kingdom began in the province…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by … MI5 & MI6 services can be traced back to the Anglo Boer War…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was an armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), the major liberation … Romania. SWAPO grew…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… The increasing social unrest in South Africa that swept through the country in the 1980s, and the … 1991 the first plenary session of CODESA convened at the…
South African Constitution 1996
… The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the … is considered by many as one of the most advanced in the world, with a Bill of…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… land, establishing farms and sugar plantations. After the South African War there was a shortage of agricultural labour. Rather than … proletraisation…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… worldwide, and received with horror from every quarter. South Africa had already been harshly criticised for its apartheid … Native Affairs declared that…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Regular elections have been a feature of South Africa’s political landscape since the establishment of Union of South Africa in 1910. With the adoption of…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… in the situation from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and mid-70s, the … within the Afrikaner community…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… still promoting continental unity and a united front for Africa. U.S. President, Barack Obama, addresses the AU about … human rights records of member states…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… political scale than had been seen before in southern Africa. There were changes in political power, leadership and … a useful comparison of societies across…
PlacePanorama Route, Mpumalanga
… October 23, 2022) "The magnificent Panorama Route in South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province is one of the Continents great Natural Wonders and one of the World’s…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… Caiphus Semenya is a South African composer, musician, and arranger that became … musical work while living in Southern California during South Africa’s…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… Moreover, he was tipped to succeed John Vorster as South Africa's Prime Minister. However, the Muldergate scandal … book that laid the principle foundation…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major political … basis’ to ‘draw up a Freedom…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… have no want." (Bundy, C. (1988). The Rise and Fall of South African Peasantry (2nd Ed), Cape Town: David Phillip, … too much and they settled deep in the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… Congress Youth League (ANCYL) Walter Sisulu ’s book South Africa Behind Bars is handed out to representatives of the … go to Bucharest, Romania, where they…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… is steeped in the history of a distant past – another world, where for centuries a community of people lived, … just hugged him”. Asked about her hopes for…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… numbers of students left the country and went into exile. South African troops invaded Angola in support of the Unita … seven people were banned. Various…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 2: Policing and Resistance
… - Former Marikana Miner & Land and Housing Activist, South Africa Thami Nkosi - Counter Repression Organiser, Right2Know … Matter is an ideological and…
ArticleXhosa
… The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… the times change every day, for we do not live in a static world. And this National Party -just look at the political and other history of South Africa -…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… bus fares and education. Zimbabwe became independent. The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) declared 1980 … in its role as peacemaker must help…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived … to host a man who has made such a…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
… Background On 1 April 1997, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) was established with a membership of around … the second largest federation…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
… the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second part of the first … boycott of South Africa. The…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… made it necessary for the national liberation movements in South Africa to move towards a more significant challenge to the … that the responsibility for the…