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Prehistory of the Nelspruit area
… represent the movement of various Nguni speaking people. One type of walling, known as Badfontein, is associated with … at least two if not three farming…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… his vision, he receives several revelations from an angel, one of which requires him and his people to worship the Lord … shoots two Israelites looking for…
Cape Floral Region
… areas, covering 553,000-ha. The Cape Floral Region is one of the richest areas for plants in the world. It …
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… total control over virtually of these two continents. One of the reasons linked to colonial expansion in Africa and … would be taken as political prisoners…
The Atlantic slave trade
… responsibility for the slave trade is not simple. On the one hand, it was indeed the Europeans who purchased large … freed and taught to read and write in…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… in Cape Town, South Africa gathered together for tea one afternoon to discuss their opinions about actions being … the cause. The public face of the Black…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid … Students (NUSAS) joined the organisation and became one of its leading figures,…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… but sexual misconduct had rarely brought up as one of those issues until late in the 1960s. After decades of … from employees’, with the hard evidence…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… workers. For example, the Freedom Charter did not include one of the most basic worker rights: the right to strike. … Charter was proposed as a more radical…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… arrest, and the ensuing Rivonia Trial , Mandela was one of a group rather than the leader. One could argue that Mandela’s famous speech from the dock, … a…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… African Church of God and Saints of Christ split, with one of the groups following Enoch Mgijima as Israelites. … erected a building to be used for religious…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… responsibility that has been cast upon each and every one of us when we decided to challenge the might of the Union … greatest Empire of our times?" "It is…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of … Two grief-stricken young women being…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… substantial. This operation was more successful than the one in Ordinance Road where a bomb did not explode properly … of three members who each had a…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… assaulting three on duty employees, fatally wounding one and torching six motor vehicles at the plant. 13 August, … the protesters. Two SAPS members are…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… Africa is seen as the protest capital of the world, with one of the highest rates of public and labour protests in the … the quartzite rock that encases the…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… South Africa: The Cordoned Heart is considered as one of the seminal photographic exhibitions and books of the … photography at UCT.. The Carnegie…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… in South Africa for at least 150 000 years. That must be one very long and big family tree! Today we still see … or anything else. The Linton Panel The…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… this respect is unique and worthy of remembrance. He was one of the few Africans who served with deeds more than with … Cradock, Somerset East, Pearston,…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid … provided that all South Africans be racially…
Protest Art
… in 1983 amalgamated many grassroot organisations under one banner. Some organisations consisted of cultural workers …
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… to see my great-grandfather, Mohamed Hajee Joosub, was one of those who is featured on the site. However, after … by millenium, by century, by decade, by…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… small town only nine years old. South Africa was certainly one of the first countries in the world to see and hear sound … variety, first showed them in…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… required that all South African Blacks become citizens of one of the self-governing territories. The law declared Black … no longer citizens of South Africa,…
Mission Stations - M
… length such as admitted of a division into three parts: one end for a lodging-room, the other end a room of equal size, which was divided into halves, one…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by … family, and more than 80% of children at…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… Pedi-Tswana influence, even allowing for the adaptations one has come to expect of a culture moving from the … the Sotho-Tswana term "tebele", meaning a…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… as the South African Communist Party (SACP). Ruth had one sibling, her younger brother Ronald First. Ruth and … in writing and it showed with her many…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… women in different ways than they affected men. For one thing, women were subjected not only to racial … were forced to maintain the dipping tanks without…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
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