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ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… in the homelands. Opposition came from two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the African National …
Delegates in attendance at the SANNC Founding Conference in 1912
… he became chief Chaplain Thomas Levi Mvabaza - delivered one of the speeches on the programme) Meshack Pelem – Vice …
ArticlePondoland
… Pondoland is the traditional area of the Pondo people, one of the Xhosa speaking peoples. Pondoland area is …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1920-1929
… 5, 1924. 1924 September 18, Gandhi: (Delhi). Twenty-one days' fast as a penance for Hindu-Muslim riots and a …
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… Organiser did the printing at a reduced rate. Bob Fine, one of its leading members, was active in solidarity work for … believed in the need for a single…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… Land restitution is one of the key issues since South Africa achieved democracy … 1996 Constitution shifting the approach from a judicial one to an…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… endorsed by the Coat of Arms. Your smallest coin has it on one of its sides. When away from the country seeing a plaque … President of South Africa. A new…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… climate led to the change from the nomadic way of life to one of settled farming communities. The Nile River The Nile … The triangular shape of the pyramids…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… NP government for the attack. The Boipatong massacre is one of the bloodiest and brutal moments of popular violence … to his departure, armored vehicles…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… his regiments, the baggage battalions. He knew where each one was, when it started, when it should arrive at its … wives and could even send their children…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… distinguishable as BaTswana and BaSotho. The BaKwena were one of the people that arose out of this group. Led by Malope … most of a similar settlement near…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… through to the uniting of Upper and Lower Egypt under one Pharaoh. We learn about their beliefs and religion and … of Amun”. He is well known because his…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… continually employed was explained by Rogers . She says, one of the first protests began ‘On Monday July 18th in … league stood for and focused on. In 1956…
ArticleMapungubwe
… to the point where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet. One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the … occupation. Mapungubwe hill is 300m long…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… Municipal IQ recently shows that South Africa had almost one protest every second day this year with Gauteng and the … State on April 13, 2011 was the most…
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… The Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th … History 1, John Child et al, Heinemann, 1991 Source…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… armed resistance movements in South Africa and the region. One of its key aims is to provide a space for telling stories … would like to encourage…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… universal appeal beyond the Indian setting and mark him as one of the outstanding individuals of the twentieth century. Yet the twenty-one years that Gandhi…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… conservative and liberal streams. This is evident when one examines developments before, during and after South … killing of a farmer, Henry Smith, on 17…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… bayonets of silk as the sun beats down its rays all worn a one and a two, a lean hungry ten the red and the black the … nothing...nothing to tell. Sixth day,…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… but the question stood out as an absolutely essential one. ... Union without honour ... was the greatest danger any … would dominate the country's political…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… the international community’s need to guarantee that no one would ever be unjustly denied life, freedom, food, … rights and freedoms as proclaimed in the…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… Reconsiderations of the Apartheid Era Introduction One of the key generalisations of political analysts and … that the Dutch and the British founded in…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… The Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) Richard Rive Project: Resisting apartheid through pen …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
… themselves in fundraising activities for the Cape Corps . One of its members, Abe Desmore, served in the East African …
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… TUCSA’s second-largest affiliate, with just under twenty-one thousand paid up members; their disaffiliation would have …
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… A “historical” wreck must be 60 years or older and no-one is allowed to “destroy, damage, excavate, alter, deface, …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid … Students (NUSAS) joined the organisation and became one of its leading figures,…
Indian education in Natal
… him to prepare another report as it found the first one unsatisfactory. 26 November, Mr Dunning reported for the … 1897 There were only two government…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… unbridled plunder by foreigners and the opening of a new chapter of national consciousness among the oppressed people. …