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ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… affairs and to elect a constituent assembly based on a one-person-one-vote basis in a united South Africa, which would draft … party was established and a…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… within these walls are several passageways and enclosures. One of the enclosures is a royal enclosure called the Great … Marco Polo’s travels became known as…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… it assured the delegates that they had come together with "one aim in view-to take positive steps to crush, once and … a bold leadership. This second…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… investigate history using people as a SOURCE. This means one day you can also be a source for another history … lived in that street. There were actually 2…
Grade 9 Archive
… anti-Semitism, the defeat of Germany in World War One, German humiliation and anger following the Treaty of …
Grade 5 Archive
… of South Africa’s different provinces, including each one’s government and symbols. We will also look at oral …
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… that the death of Biko left a vacuum similar to the one created by the banning of the ANC and the PAC after …
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… and Celtic society. These developments were independent of one another. The sona patterns from Southern Africa … form also served as a means of transmitting…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… had to take the form of a power-sharing arrangement. One of the reasons the NP pushed this position was that the … implication of a “No” vote in Zambia’s…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… ' Redemption has come and that is the IC ,' rejoiced one chief. The ICU was also widely perceived as the … the way in which the name was interpreted…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… in the 15-24 age group, where three young women for every one young man are infected. One of the most significant damages caused by this disease is … Times,…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… subordinate to men. Women's role was primarily a domestic one; it included child rearing and seeing to the well-being, … within the community to take up…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… of racial inequality which kept all races separate from one another. In 1994, Mandela was of key importance in … Mandela helped prevent a civil war and he…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… They were nomadic which means that they did not settle in one place. They moved around to find different plant foods at … Xhosa loved drinking sour milk and…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… the new Constitution needed as its protector a new court - one untainted by the past. In this sense, the decision to create a Constitutional Court was a…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… social security, free trading rights and a minimum wage of one pound a day. At the Cape provincial congress of the ANC … poetic style, possibly the influence…
ArticleBlack Sash
… the Black Sash because the women wore black sashes over one shoulder as they stood to demonstrate against … from being a protest organisation to become a…
ArticleSweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU)
… in the factories that fell within its sector. SFAWU was one of two unions of the Consultative Committee of Black …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… forge their own destiny. This thinking is implicit when one examines commemorations of events such as the death of … conditions within the colony. This…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… Hugh Masekela is recognized as one of the most famous and influential musicians of all time … of South Africa with the Manhattan Brothers in 1958, being one…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… friend Evelyn (at the time married to Mandela) was one of the bridesmaids. Dr Xuma, then president of the ANC, … Charter was read to 2884 delegates…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… Makeba was well known for her unforgettable voice, but no one can deny she played an even bigger part in the South … she would not step foot in South Africa…
Mission Stations - A-F
… colony on the eastern coast, which borders on Caffraria. One established by the Moravians on the White River, near the … of reddish brown or dark grey rock…
Glossary: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… this topic Islam : the Muslim religion, based on belief in one God and revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah …
National Orders Recipients
… human spirit have become characteristics of South Africa. One of the symbolic moments of the exodus from the past was …
ArticleKey terms with definitions for this topic
… Islam: the Muslim religion, based on belief in one God and revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah …
ArticleMads Nørgaard
… awkwardness that comes from having a foreigner in one's space, is circumvented by the relationship building …
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… - either "a protracted war of national liberation, on the one hand, and capitulation to the forces of fascism, racism … has been heard with increasing…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… for the running of white farms and businesses alike. One of the primary obstacles regarding this matter was … of the particular city or town to which it was…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… years. There is some controversy surrounding the name, but one theory is that when Brits settled here, the fountain was … Another theory is that the name was…