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Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… Abstract This article traces the major segregation laws in South Africa that acted as precedent for the 1954 Native Resettlement Act. This apartheid law…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… A resolution is passed at a student body meeting for the establishment of a student Wages Commission. David Hemson … Nupen together with political scientist…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… Ancient Egypt The ancient Egyptian civilisation grew for thousands of years intact because the Nile River Valley and Mediterranean and Red Sea border kept…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Tennyson Makiwane , Vella … …
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… After the French Revolution, the newly founded Republic of France conquered the Netherlands in 1795. The Netherlands became known as the …
ArticleNdebele
… 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…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… In 1990, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP ) formed an…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… had always been a question in peoples' minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of the People in 1955, to take place. In 1956, their question …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entrenched. The formation of the Union of…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… 1775 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought begins in Southern Africa resulting in the Mahlatule famine. This resulted in…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… Afrikaans Community (1838-1899) The First White Inhabitants It is documented that the first pioneers from the Eastern Cape undertook a hunting expedition to…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… 1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian … labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the 1930s and 1940s. Municipal workers…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… Introduction The 16 June 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… 9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances since the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… 1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre. He excelled at boxing and shared his love of the sport…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… The South African Police Service (SAPS) that we are familiar with today has its origin after the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902. Prior to the war each colony…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… The first white inhabitants Between 1820 and 1826, Afrikaner … trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… 11 September, Gerrit Viljoen is born in Cape Town. 1920 The Native Affairs Act The ANC supports the militant strike by African mineworkers in 1920. The Black…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC) . Recent accounts of the…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa … in Duncan Village outside East London in March 1961. The launch followed a conference of the Non…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… by non-vernacular-speaking friends. While noting this, the spelling on this site has not adhered to Chief Luthuli's … choice is in order to facilitate…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… The Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) was the external arm of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) , and had offices in …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious … with and resistance to apartheid. Calls were made by the Indian Congress to reject the…
Local Government
… When disaffected groups of Dutch farmers from the Cape reached the Trans-Gariep region, they brought with them a mindset … and agrarian in nature. Their…
Griqua community
… The Griqua people’s history is not directly intertwined with … however their history had an important influence on the history and development of the Orange…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… them an alternative space to articulate their views. The emergence of a number of publications in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century spearheaded…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… When the African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912, it did not accept women as members. In 1918, the government threatened to reintroduce pass laws…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… During the 1930s there were attempts by African workers to organise … unions. There was a need for solid trade unions after the failure of the African-based…