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II - The Life of Steve Biko
… 1976, many pupils and students, their ages ranging from 17 to 24 years, had been arrested in Port Elizabeth and …
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in…
General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885
… Commission of the Congo, instituted in virtue of Article 17, shall be charged with supervising the application of the … shall be treated on a footing of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… crashed and investors subsequently lost their wealth. [17] Thus, the immediate concerns were towards the banking … [Accessed 1 April 2021]. [16] Ibid. [17] …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… wave of struggles in the first half of the 1970s.” 17 June, Due to the Soweto unrest, parliament meets in an …
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… were also established namely; Grey College which opened on 17 January 1858, the so-called Dames Instituut or Eunice …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Movement. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice , 17(4): 455-462. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South …
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 fossils. Human Origins South…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… each loaded with gold dust weighing roughly 135 kilograms. 17 Passing through the Mamluk Sultanate's capital of Cairo, …
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… used in attacking the Nyanga Army Base between around the 17 December before moving to attack the Lingelethu West …
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 March 1820. From the Cape colony, the settlers were sent …
Indian education in Natal
… and the remainder for the Cape Elementary Examination. 17 December, An Arab trader whose son had been excluded from …
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… they panicked. The police and army were mobilised from 17 March 1963 to 15 April 1963, and the government rushed …
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… 2014]|African National Congress, (1954). Women’s Charter, 17 April. Available at https://www.anc.org.za [Accessed 25 … (2010). ‘Attitudes toward feminism…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… Congress (ANC), meeting during the week-end of June 16-17, 1951, decided to invite the head committees of other … Annual Conference held in Bloemfontein from…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… – 1791) the founder of Methodism . John Wesley (born June 17, 1703, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England—died March 2, 1791, … Lillian Ngoyi and Thomas Masekela…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… heard of the massacre but knew very little about it, while 17% said that they were unaware of it. Only 40% reported …
PlaceWellington, Western Cape
The picturesque town of Wellington is a scenic 45-minute drive from Cape Town. The train station is built on land donated to the Town Council in 1863, as part…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
Introduction It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… arrest threatened to expose and implicate the others.” [17] Because she was already under intense scrutiny and … History Online (South African History Online…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
Mobilise the world for sanctions against Apartheid We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
Mobilise the world for sanctions against apartheid! We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… were precipitated, however, by the killing on May 1, 1950, of a number of workers who were observing the day, … a national stay-at-home strike was called on…
Covert operations
… empowered the state to take action against organisations. 17 organisations were restricted, including a number of youth … camps have described the attacks,…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… of its 25 million people about 71 percent are African, 17 percent of European ancestry, 9 percent of the mixed … have been nettles in the regime's thin skin,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… of 16 meetings all over Natal during the period 13 July to 17 August, culminating in a mass rally in Durban. Mr. Meer … on Sunday: Having begun on 13 June…
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) television news on 17 October 1985, the SAP defended their alleged ambush of … Burger quoted in South African Digest …
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… 128,071 245,535 17,492 53,205 1948 .. … Asiatic females .. .. 3,441 17,953 African males …