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ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… The Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… Filling the void left by SASO? The Azanian Students Organisation (AZASO): A summary Following the banning of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) a…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). The following year its name was changed to the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). The organisation had…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… 1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from … Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say that the jump of the disease from…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… ..to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. Winning a Nobel Prize is one of the highest international…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… 1893 Alfred Bitini Xuma is born, the seventh child born of Abraham and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… On 30 July 2011, the South African Communist Party (SACP) celebrated its 90th anniversary. Initially known as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… 2000 January, The partnership is formalized by South African National Aids Council (SANAC) to review its two years of work against HIV/AIDS being under the…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly …
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… Causes of the War The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of Independence because the conflict arose between the …
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… “District Six is a blot which the government has cleaned up and will continue to clear up.” [i] - P.W Botha The memory of District Six, also known as…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… held its first democratic elections in April 1994 and the African National Congress (ANC) won with a majority vote to head the government of national unity…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… The three Basotho Wars (1858-68) and the formation of Lesotho The conflict between the Basotho … June 2009]|Cameron, T. (ed) (1986) An Illustrated History of…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the…
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, …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… their way to carry out a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were being tailed by the police. They…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… Present day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth …
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and … to be co-opted by the colonial rulers at the expense of…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is a South African political … to advance his political ambitions. Buthelezi used the name Inkhata which was rooted in a…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… Early years The history of the South African Defence Force (SADF) can be traced to the … at the Cape in 1652, he had with him a small contingent of soldiers,…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… By the turn of the century, despite the fact that women of all races were still virtually restricted to the home, …
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… In July 1967, the University Christian Movement (UCM) held its founding … with about 90 clergymen and students in attendance. The congress elected an…
ArticleSilverton and Soekmekaar trial
… On 14 April 1980 the nine accused appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court in one of the most highly publicised South African guerrilla trials, …
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… which is meant to protect women’s rights, arguing that the legislation itself is progressive but that the implementation of these rights is significantly…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… South Africa is a country of relative prosperity, with vast resources and a modern … persistent and widespread poverty and deep inequalities - the legacy of…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was …
ArticleKora
… The Korana or Kora were a nomadic Khoikhoi group that … a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a leader of the Gorachouqua (`-qua’ meaning ‘people…
Mission Stations - A-F
… by James Backhouse in February 1840 (p 561), who recorded the following: "After riding about twenty-five miles from the Amse River, we arrived, long after…