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ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to land. Today this theory is … any peoples understanding of…
ArticleIndigenous medicine and traditional healing
… the two main types of indigenous or traditional healers in South Africa. Isangomas Isangomas are spiritual healers and are … burns and bruises. Below, is a…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… at the same time ensuring that those described as ‘white’ South Africans would be privileged with the exclusive rights … the country. [ii] To achieve this…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… to the USSR with Moses Mabhida , General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to attend the 26th … a message, which is sent to all his…
Khoisan Identity
… their language and identity. As a free and democratic South Africa today, we cannot ignore to correct the past’. This … of Khoisan communities in the history…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… shared social and political concerns between India and South Africa. For the poets, it was slightly easier. There is a … The project, which began in 2010 as…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) characterised as “war between AZAPO and the UDF in Soweto”, local tensions were … The UDF: A History of the United…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… be celebrated as Women's Day, and it is now, in the new South Africa, commemorated each year as a national holiday. Passes … Women’s League and a founding…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… rock art. There is rock art on about every continent, but South Africa has some of the most beautiful and advanced examples. … in South Africa, at the…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official launch of the Dube Trade Port and King Shaka International Airport, 8 May 2010, Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal
… must not be shy to boast about it. We are changing the way South Africa works! Your Majesty, Distinguished guests, The launch … of aviation traffic in its…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… (LPM) was formed by leaders of various landless people of South Africa in response to evictions of farm workers and labour … they formed. [3] However, in…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2013 submissions
… originally from Leawood, Kansas, and loves to travel the world and try adventurous foods. Project: The Right to Life … she graduates. Project: The…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… David Goldblatt was the first South African to be granted one of the art world’s major benchmarks for international success: a solo … artist whose work has…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… and minoring in History with focus on the areas of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Currently active in working … to democratization and political process…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… United Nations to impose mandatory sanctions against the South African regime for perpetuation of the policy of … to Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) that had ever…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… dealt with various important matters, including the World Council of Churches, the Republic's policy in respect of the Black states in Africa and the arms…
ArticleSouth Africa - First 20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014)
… South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 … first non-racial election in 1994. All legally eligible South Africans were able to cast…
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… today to commemorate the death of an outstanding young South African patriot, Stephen Bantu Biko. The bloody decade … of evil cruelly robbed our country, our…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… and special relationship between Scotland and South Africa, spanning more than two centuries. Scattered … earlier epoch. For example, many of the roads…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in … country illegally (mostly at the time…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… The period preceding the formation of the South Africa Union witnessed the establishment and growth of trade … The union ceases to exist because of the Anglo…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… Unknown, “History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa”, SA History Online, (Uploaded: 2 December 2019), … between 1673 and 1677. This was the…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… practice in Nazi-occupied parts of Europe after the Second World War broke out in 1939. The Nazi racist ideology of a … way of reinforcing the human rights…
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
… Lodge, politics professor, Wits University, Politics in South Africa (Cape Town: David Philip, 2002) ‘In 1998 Mbeki … smartest leader ever, but that he ‘may…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ruled by the National Party. The NP government … from south Africa(iii) different…
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… with somewhat curtailed political rights of the Union of South Africa. Such a thought suggests a feature of our … It is opposed to the principle which…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… handwritten journal and notes in the National Archives of South Africa in Pretoria where it was stored in a closed … and armed struggle anchored in the…
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
… South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 … first non-racial election in 1994. All legally eligible South Africans were able to cast…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… segregation has a history that reaches far back into South African history. According to AJ Christopher, “ formal … for the ‘locations’ which were to be…
ArchiveSubbiah Moodley - "Voices Of Resistance" - University Of Durban Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project , 2002
… born in Umgeni Road on the 23rd of February 1944 while the war was still on, the Second World War, and we lived in a complex in Umgeni Road. It had … from…