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ArticleWages Commission
… support, the WC Durban branch’s first campaign began in early June 1971.The WC printed and circulated pamphlets, at …
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… of the world. In East Africa people produced steel as early as 500 BC. In Europe, this development happened only in …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… However, other groups began to infiltrate the area in the early 19th century. Self-Government, the Orange Free State In … the population was about 300 people…
ArticleThe Johanna
… east of Quoin Point, (near the Cape east coast) in the early hours of 8 June 1862, and forgotten for 300 years. … had calmed. The VOC started as a merchant…
Pedi
… Limpopo, Gauteng and the North West province. Settlements Early Pedi settlements were divided into kgoro (pl. dikgoro), … element of Pedi social hierarchy…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… who only had 27 000 men in their commandos. During the early stages of the war. Britain suffered a number of … was and became active on the British side…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… Start of the southern African Iron Age period. c. 400 AD Early Iron Age people settle in what is now known as Kwa-Zulu Natal . c. AD 500 Early Iron Age…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… awareness of being a unique group probably started by the early 1700s. The statement by Hendrik Bibault, who was of … of burghers became truly rich,…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… was ensured by different forms of urban control. In the early 1920s, the government of Jan Smuts set out a basic … College on Salisbury Island in Durban Bay…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… in the call, the Transvaal UDF did endorse the call in early November. The strike was very effective, with numbers … luxuries and not holding parties from 16…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… Congress of Democrats (SACOD) in 1953 was completed early in 1956. The SAIC had members among the Treason Trial … and membership were broken by state…
ArticleKey sites
… stalls were provided for the traders. Cinemas During the early days of silent movies the two cinemas operating in the … they existed in Europe was an…
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… places as wells and cellars to understand domestic life in early Cape Town. They study military life from the remains at …
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… famous ‘corbelled huts’ that captured the imagination of early travellers. Located on the edge of the central cattle …
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… escaped death and injury when a bomb exploded at the Early Learning Centre in Athlone where they had a meeting. …
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… As the struggle for freedom reached a new intensity in the early fifties, the ANC saw the need for a clear statement on …
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… to take a more sympathetic view of its history, and its early history in particular. In many ways the Society became … African Drawing Club (SADC), founded…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… (founded 1919 by Clements Kadalie ). In the 1950s and early 1960s there were various protests against the National … of the few remaining White-ruled nations…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… the steering committee for the organisation. During the early stages of the federation lifespan, Nontsikelelo … to continued police surveillance of her in…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… AZAPO and the Independent trade union movement. In early 1983 the UDF leadership sought unions support. ( For …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… saw many Sactu leaders and members arrested during the early 1960s, and by 1965 Sactu was decimated, leading to … activity, although some unions did come…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… Early History Few Southern African indigenous groups have so … be assumed to have taken place during the 1930s or the early 1940s Leadership of the…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… children used to play. Johnny showed a passion for music early in his life as he also played two self-made … He was undoubtedly influenced by this type of…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… Colored musicians against the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, focusing on the work of one … examine his life and the role of jazz…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… non racial South Africa, entered the political discourse. Early in the 1980s, AZAPO was forced to consider “class … rent protests and campaigning for strikes…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… heavy industry grew slowly in Russia, and by the early 1900s it had only established itself in a handful of … from using their weaponry on the workers. In…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… mountains between South Africa and Swaziland. [1] Other early artifacts had markings of 28, which has been speculated to be an early count of the menstrual…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… in the Western Cape began organising themselves from as early as 1978 and eventually formed the United Women's … December 1983 as one of the affiliates of…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… ‘Afri’ that the Romans derived the term ‘Africa’. In the early sixteenth century the famous medieval traveller and … the Nile as the dividing line between…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… one of uncertainty and, for a number of years many of its early buildings retained their prefabricated iron-and-timber character. Growth of the Early Gold…