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ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… people into a powerful united front against Nationalist Apartheid policies continues. The fight against the Group … Nationalist and the United Parties. “On…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… were becoming increasingly radical and openly hostile to apartheid and white supremacist rule in general. SASO took … also began protesting in support of…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… Manuel , Cheryl Carolus , Johnny Issel and others against Apartheid education. In 1976, they were arrested under the … and was visiting Professor of…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… were arranged, but were not always very successful. Issues surrounding coordination continued to be discussed and … on People's Education. Protest remained…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… much about this old coastal town. It is home to the City Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the … incredible. The Square is probably the most…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… purpose and it was from these reserves that the mines and urban employers were to draw migrant labour. In addition to … serve as pools of migrant labour for…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… to the area. After 1994, the town burgeoned into a city and a crucial point in the Maputo corridor - a route … which was until then a hostile neighbour…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Economic Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… of ownership and production, the spatial legacies of our apartheid past and the tendencies of the economy towards … and reversing the geography of apartheid…
Work and education
… © Omar Badsha The biggest challenge the first post-apartheid government was faced with, was the transforming of … the task of eliminating the duplication…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… United Nations. We recall the pain caused by the legion of apartheid legislation that stripped away the dignity of … Act No. 26 of 1970, black people were…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… reform 23 April, The town of Pietersburg/Polokwane earned city status 1994 Nelson Mandela becomes the first … elected president of SA 1995 25 February,The…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… Mbhazima Shilowa, Your Worship, Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Amos Masondo, MEC for Housing, Nomvula … In time, this place became a wasteland…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… Council conference held at Wilgespruit in 1981, the issues of non-racialism and socialism dominated the … the 73 Strikes who brought to the workers?…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the democratic transition in South Africa has … available land was designated for 4 million…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The prevailing summer and winter winds, … victory of the National Party(NP), with…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… and Afrikaans in schooling. At a meeting of the Soweto Urban Council, Councillor Leonard Mosala stated that … result in another Sharpeville shooting incident…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… ghettos, with their own experiences, histories and issues to be confronted. This chapter describes some of the … a loaded term in South Africa. While it is a…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… of his court trial, under the Emergency Regulations, Dadoo issues a statement calling on the Indian community to support … defy licensing laws and set up…
Opening Address to the Conference on "Whites in A Changing South Africa", Convened by the Five Freedoms Forum and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… welcome to those who have come directly from home to the city of Lusaka; a city that will surely be remembered in the … that that South Africa has eluded us…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… born on 4 July 1952, in the fourth year of South Africa’s apartheid state. By this time, policies, such as the Group … Coloured, and Indian South Africans to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… agents operating in Switzerland and liaising with Anti-Apartheid organizations. The International University … supporters to use the official community…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… struggle waged by Black and Colored musicians against the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, … in detail. Not only was Ibrahim living in…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… the best in human values. He lived through the rigours of apartheid, the transition to democracy, and in more recent … Apartheid state established Bantu…
EventAnti-Pass petition sent to President Steyn
… controlling the mobility of the Black population in White urban areas. Bloemfontein was becoming a fast-growing economy … for Black people, who ended up…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… decline. The Kingdom was centered around the great city of Mbanza Kongo, located in what is now northern Angola, … “Mbanza Kongo/Sao Salvador: Kongo's Holy…
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… is “complicit, like all white South Africans [during apartheid] who never really looked at the consequences of … who recently exhibited at Circa for a show…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into … or trade union activities. The party’s position on other issues such as land…
Place"When Woodstock had a Beach"
… long since been reclaimed for development as part of the city's expansion. Initially, the city's connection to … River . This crucial development marked the…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had banished the Black resistance … with other literate Africans residing in…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… especially its more aggressive form, White baaskap and apartheid. It is in the economic sphere that this disastrous … shown itself in the dire poverty of the…