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ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. It is significant because it marks the end…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… Jan van Riebeeck was sent to the Cape to establish a station at which ships of the United Dutch Chartered East Indian Company could obtain …
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Prehistory of Southern Africa Farming people did not inhabit the Greater Johannesburg region until the Late Iron Age. Then, beginning in the 15th century, …
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South …
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… International responses The Sharpeville massacre was reported worldwide, and received … and this incident fuelled anti-apartheid sentiments as the…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… Introduction On 9 January 1973, workers at the Coronation Brick and Tile factory, outside Durban, came … and ship repairs companies also came out on strike…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… In the latter part of 1959, PAC membership was still below expectations, and it became clear to the leadership that the movement would have to produce some ……
Why protect worker’s rights?
… The exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend with the migrant…
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… Here is a brief summary, but you can read more in the section in Grade 7 Human Evolution. Darwinism Today the theory of evolution is a well supported,…
Pedi
… [baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
Abbreviations - Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… ABCFM : American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (USA) AG : Foreign Missions Department, General Council of the Assemblies of God, Inc (USA) BC :…
Mandela: Message to India
… History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 [ On the occasion of an India-South Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the post-apartheid South African…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… The first white inhabitants Between 1820 and 1826, Afrikaner … trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… 1910 First general election that followed the establishment of the Union of South Africa. Only White males had the right to …
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert … national and international scale. However, information on the lives…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… Madikizela-Mandela and 21 others, who were detained under the Suppression of Communism Act, in May 1969, are acquitted. Three are … and recharged. They are…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1971 Statement by OR Tambo to the People of South Africa on the 10th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe . 16 December 1971 …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… In January 1986, the UDF met the African National Congress (ANC) for talks in Stockholm. … It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… that there are many links on this site which deal with the depth and breadth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. This Grade …
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… 1950 A.K.M. Docrat , a popular activist, was named under the Suppression of Communism Act . He was jailed for thirty days during the 1952 Defiance Campaign…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation or MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), was … Jeffery, A., 2009. People’s War: New light on the…
ArticleAfrapix
… Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography … in 1981. This collective played a seminal role in the…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… On 3 September the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town while protest demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most…
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… A provisional settlement was reached in 1911. But in the letter of 12 September 1913 reproduced below, A.M. Cachalia, chairman of the British Indian…
France in 1789
… or society. A political revolution happens when a group of people rebel against the existing government and attempt to overthrow it. It is usually associated…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… were formed; these organisations precipitated the formation of the African National Congress. 1866 The first attempt to …
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … Coloured and Indian women faced harsh…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa The feature on …