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ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… areas that are too dry to farm with crops and move on to a new home when their herds have finished all the available … the San, who were hunter-gatherers,…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… abandoned, the Boers had to decide where to establish a new capital. In 1883 General Petrus Jacobus (Piet) Joubert … Pretoria and a land surveyor was…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… small children, and free meals were provided for between 3,5 to 5 million school children. Although the RDP was viewed as the … negatively on the policy…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… simple. It offered excitement, unpredictability, and new adventures; sport created popular discourse and generated … poverty. The inter-war years signaled…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… of Steve Biko in police custody. These events led to a new round of Security Council meetings and a mandatory arms … became overcrowded as the state halted…
BiographyJan Smiesing
… building was erected combining both the old and new buildings. This flat-roofed structure was enlarged in …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… evidence, wrote in their letter that the report and the new evidence: “shows convincingly that Mr Tsafendas was not a …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… recently defeated Afrikaner republics agreed to create a new white minority state in which blacks and white women were … the right to vote. During…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… policies of the old Afrikaner Republics and harsh new immigrant measures to restrict the entry of Asiatic , both former residents and new arrivals, into the…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
… 2016, at the federation’s sixth National Congress, six new National Office Bearers (NOBs) were elected. At this … took over from Koos Bezuidenhout and became…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… of all communities and both sexes. It was agreed that a new court, more representative of South Africa's diverse … felt that this task would be too difficult…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… boycott of South Africa from the 1964 Olympic Games. 1967 New Zealand All-Blacks cancel tour of South Africa in … Whites – pending special permission. 1981…
ArticleTimeline of the 2014 general elections
… of registered voters was 24 112 414, and the number of new voters added to the voters roll was over one million. … living overseas cast their votes. The…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… in the Republic, mainly because the diamond fields created new markets and brought in new trade. In 1866, the new Anglican Cathedral was opened in St George…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Museum of Contemporary Art — formerly the University Gallery. But sprawl is what memory and emotion do, too. …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… industrial economy with the development of many new secondary industries in its aftermath. By this time the … previous decade) and the CYL began to set the…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… the dynamic changes that were taking place among the new urban Black South African – African, Indian and Coloured … The magazine became an important platform…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… detained thousands without trial, and instituted harsh new security legislation. Yet resistance continued in various … be hanged simultaneously on the…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… Schwarz agreed not to stand for the leadership of the new party in favour of Progressive Party leader Colin Eglin . … he used throughout his political career…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… In 1965 the Springboks had a successful tour of New Zealand. After the tour Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd of the National Party announced that future New…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… the PAC, NEUM and APDUSA as inconsequential. When new attempts were made to infiltrate cadres into South Africa … however limited, to provide support…
Thupelo (1985)
… in the first Triangle Network artists’ workshop in New York in 1982 and based Thupelo on a similar approach of … provided an opportunity for artists to…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… trade. Promises were made to the ANC that as soon as the new government had implemented this model, conditions would … and create a genuine democratic South…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… of community life and gave the African working classes a new sense of identity. This is how Wilson "King Force" … through to Sunday evening. Music was…
Christianity
… is the Old Testament and the second part is called the New Testament. The Old Testament is made up of the same books … online, listen to some of it in class,…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… The New Constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October … is made up of Negroes and coloured people (about 5 500 000 Negroes and coloured people and…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… By the end of 1931 and early in 1932 construction of the new housing project had begun. During the second half of 1932 … Johannesburg was the most preferred…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost … outside designated areas. Existing…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… African interior provided economic stimulus to the new town, and by the 1860s it had overtaken Cape Town as the … amongst them were: Racecourse (1896) Walmer…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… his wife Hoho granted the Rharhabe land for settlement. [5] As a gesture of goodwill, ten young people were married … of life should be displaced by others…