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ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… 1960 21 March , In a peaceful anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, … Cape Town. The…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… The Portuguese begin mapping and exploring the South African coastline and basic trading takes place … land), with eventually only the western and northern…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… How is the South African Government dealing with the aids epidemic? In 1987, the apartheid government … antenatal survey, conducted in 1990, found that only…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… 2010 19 January: ( Congress of South African Trade Unions ) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third … week of striking…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body … in 1983, in Mitchells Plain. Steps towards forming the UDF began in the late 1970s, and moved…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… This article was written by Carly Spagnola and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Since the beginning of the…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… "On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the…
Journals
… Background and History The South African Association of Art Historians launched a journal in 1987. Accredited by the Department of Education and Training,…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… Seminary. 1961 Tshabalala-Msimang receives her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Fort Hare located in the Eastern Cape. 1962 Tshabalala-Msimang…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… KwaZulu Natal. There has been this and much speculation of the causes and triggers of the violence. A number of reports have highlighted various … Carien, J…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Vegetarian Congress at Ventor. February 19, Result of Matriculation examination is published. He failed Latin. June, Passed the London Matriculation…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the general …
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… Imbeleko is the women's wing of the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO), formed in 1982 to … struggle. Drawing its name from the Nguni tradition of…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… united Democratic and non-racial society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work … as equals in conditions of peace…
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… " We are in danger of losing our history" A recent report on history and archaeology in schools offers compelling reasons for the teaching of these…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… their fathers. 1882 Kasturba and Mohandas are married at the age of thirteen. Kasturba moves in with the Gandhi family in Rajkot. 1888 Birth of their first…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popular in the Nguni ethnic group (Zulu). It…
Mission Stations - I-L
… Middledrift, Cape: UPCM; GMS. May also have been known as the PROSPECT mission. It was visited by James Backhouse in … Niven, who was residing alone, in a…
National Orders Recipients
… South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion and discrimination on the basis of sex, colour and creed. The country has been steadily…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… referring to black youth who travelled either sitting on the roof or hanging onto the outside of overcrowded, racially segregated commuter trains. [i] It ……
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… 1906 11 September, A mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg in connection with the agitation at present going on in the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… Introduction South Africa, called by some people the 'Rainbow Nation', a title that captures its diversity and … September is since 1994 officially heritage…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… At a time when the country was in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992, the Bisho Massacre added to the bleak …
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… Strikes in the Schools Presumably, not all students of the earlier generation 'worshipped the school authorities'! …
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
… 2009 February 2009, the University of Limpopo in Limpopo Province experienced student protests … of students by some staff members, and academic exclusion…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… Introduction Nationalism refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It emphasises the collective of a…
ArticleTransport on land
… The first form of transport on land was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals Carts, wagons and coaches The bicycle The steam engine and the train The motor…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… Latvia and Lithuania, respectively) who helped establish the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1939 First becomes a member of the Young Left Wing Book…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) announced its formation on 27 July, 2013 in Soweto. The party was formed by former ANC Youth League leader … The EFF…