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Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… 1950 A.K.M. Docrat , a popular activist, was named under the Suppression of Communism Act . He was jailed for thirty days during the 1952 Defiance Campaign…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… 1910 Anti- Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions … discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian Legislation: The…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. It … as Act 23. Suppression of Communism Act,…
ArticleTransport on land
… The first form of transport on land was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals Carts, wagons and coaches The bicycle The steam engine and the train The motor…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… discriminatory legislation against black groups intact. The Immigrants Regulation Act of 1910 consolidates existing immigration laws of the pre-Union…
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… January 1992: The IFP publishes its constitutional principles. 08 January 1992: The ANC gives it annual statement. 20 January 1992: 5 Working … and begin…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid … South African scientists have…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… The exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South … thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend with the migrant labour system, passes and…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… The Role and Impact of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile and Women in … Mbete-Kgositsile has played a major and vital role in the history of South African politics and…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by …
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… Introduction In a democratic society, the observance of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates to chieftaincy operating on principles…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… 1824 The Matabele, underChief Mzilikazi, settle on Thaba Bosiu. 1833 The Baralong under Chief Moroka II settle at what was later … Douglas Warden appointed…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… 1824 The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824. 1877 The first biography ever …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… In 2012 the mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) received the world’s attention,…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… In 2012 the mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) received the world’s attention,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… The Portuguese begin mapping and exploring the South African coastline and basic trading takes place between the Khoikhoi and the Europeans. Nguni and Sotho…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… is about two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899 to 1902…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… from India, arrive in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng), where they open a small … Kathrada and his wife Hawa, in…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Democrats (COD)
… In 1952, Whites who identified themselves with the aspirations of those who participated in the Defiance Campaign formed the South African People's Congress…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… Elsie Francina Steyn 1835 Paul Kruger's father situated on the Caledon river 1836 The Krugers become Voortrekkers, the young Paul Kruger becomes witness to…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… been a feature of South Africa’s political landscape since the establishment of Union of South Africa in 1910. With the adoption of the Union Constitution…
Islam
… Islam What do Muslims believe? This is the Arabic script for Allah.Source: www.webislam.com Muslims … in Arabic and a Muslim is a person who submits his life…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… born in Nkandla in northern KwaZulu-Natal. 1958 Zuma joins the African National Congress (ANC) and through its youth structure the ANC Youth League (ANCYL)…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… The African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912 as a … many grievances. This included black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910 that…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… 1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from … Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say that the jump of the disease from…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… The apartheid era was characterised by different resistances such as the Sharpeville massacre , Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 …
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… West Rand on 5 September. Today, he like many activists of the South African socialist movement and other stalwarts of the liberation struggle, such as…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… 1910 February 26, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi supports the African Peoples’ Organisation (APO) resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of…