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ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… Indians were officially recognised as a permanent part of the South African population and the Department of Indian Affairs was established with a White…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… 18 February The German colony of Cameroon falls to French and British … after 17 months of fighting. 21 February–19 December The Battle of Verdun begins…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… 1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The population of…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… 1948 May 26 , The National Party (NP) wins election and immediately … trade unions and certain individuals speaks out on the possibility of a political…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… Portuguese trading stations in West Africa and the slave trade Portuguese expansion into Africa began with the desire of King John I to gain access to the…
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… The South African government is divided into three parts: the Executive (the Cabinet), the Legislature (Parliament), and Judiciary …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… on Afrikaner self-determination 23 April 1994 BETWEEN THE FREEDOM FRONT, THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN-GOVERNMENT/ NATIONAL PARTY…
English Settlement in South Africa
… British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the …
ArticleKey sites
… Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These included Simon’s Cafe, Goodwill … restaurants. Later on came Victory Lounge. It…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… The African National Congress (ANC) in exile developed … to influence public opinion within South Africa with the view to rebuilding its clandestine…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Significantly, the National Party, which was…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land … exclusion from citizenship of Africans. Part one examines the…
America, Spanish conquest
… All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave Trade The content below has been…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… claims in South Africa 16 December 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the founders of the kingdom … Gondola, Ch…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… Africa is the world’s second largest continent, both by size and … Africa, and being African, has become a core part of the identity of millions of the…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose … and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent. Colonial…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by the fact that people from these agencies do not want their stories…
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,…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… 'South African War ( a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) remains the most terrible and destructive modern armed conflict in … Africa’s history. It was an event that…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… 1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. After … low SRC poll, he followed his conscience and resigned. The head of…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… (D. D. T.) Jabavu, Prixley Ka Isaka Seme, President of the African National Congress (ANC), Africans from different … Africa convene at Community Hall,…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… South Africa enters the War General Smuts signing the agreement at the first meeting of the UN General Assembly. Source: P. …
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… 1859 After protracted negotiations between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of 1859 is…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Artefacts in a site known as 'Gemsbok' in the north of the Orange River near present day Oranjemund is dated to this … 400 000 years …
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…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in …
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… This article was written by Devon Wall and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … Relation to Women’s Rights Abstract : This…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… For this complex period to be studied, the Sharpeville massacre, Soweto uprising and the release of Nelson Mandela and unbanning of liberation … turning…