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Tsonga
… The Tsonga are a group of the Bantu-speaking population who live in areas extending … in the Lydenburg, Soutpansberg, and Waterberg districts of the Northern…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1995, armed youth gangs in Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed the homes and property of suspected undocumented migrants…
ArticlePondoland
… Introduction. Pondoland is the traditional area of the Pondo people, one of the Xhosa speaking peoples. … Badat, S. (2011) the forgotten people: political…
Polokwane an Overview
… soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… While looking at the background information on the Russian revolution and the change to a Communist state in Russia, we have already touched on many of the…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… The Community Arts Project (CAP) was established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… With the ANC now legal, mass demands were made for a … a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary South Africa. The UDF had indeed won its main demands. 1991…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West Province . The…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… 1976 16 June, Extra police patrols are deployed. 24 June, The Principal's office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) was burnt out and the following day the same…
ArticleAreas indentured Indians came from
… Finding the area ones ancestors came from is a daunting task. To assist the searcher, the table below has been created. The table … falls and the presidency…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… away when he was young and Abrahams was sent to live in the rural village of Elsburg. 1926 At the age of seven Abrahams mother retrieves him from Elsburg …
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
… 1906 Seme presents his speech at Columbia University on “The Regeneration of Africa” which wins him the University’s highest oratorical accolade, the George …
Submissions & winning projects 2009
… First place: Fairouz West (Western Cape), ‘A history of sport’ Second place: Neo Panane (North West Province), ‘A … Cape), ‘ Xenophobia’ Special mentions…
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… Sebe Moroka is born in Thaba Nchu. , Bophuthatswana in the Free State province. 1909 Moroka completes his primary school education, and attends the Lovedale…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… As population in the freehold townships swelled, overcrowding and rack renting became the order of the day. Black property owners in Sophiatown were …
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… 7 October, Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. 1961 Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in the…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… The involvement of the South African national rugby team, the Springboks, in … with controversy. In the 1960s, as international criticism of apartheid grew,…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… “Just Transition” has become the buzz term used to explain the socioeconomic need to address the jobs and communities … renewable energy sector and the now…
Dance For All (DFA)
… an education development programme that functioned under the umbrella of CAPAB Ballet in Cape Town , now known as the Cape Town City Ballet. Philip Boyd, who…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… a theatre training workshop that was founded in 1971 by the South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) in … knowns as Mshengu or Kavanagh) - who was…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… Divested of names and birthright Autshumato and Krotoa were ferried … see, in die eiland stemertjie every time they incurred the wrath of their insatiable…
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… Who were the hunter-gatherers? Many societies all over the world survived by hunting and gathering for most of the last 100 000 years. In southern Africa the…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) is a political party whose presence in the South African political landscape spans just over half a century. The PAC’s…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… 25 May 1646 : His father, Adrian van der Stel dies in the line of duty and the family moves to Batavia. 1659 : Maria Leviens remarries …
Introduction
… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a …
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… Following the 1973, Durban strikes, TUCSA seemed unwilling to hold to book employers. TUCSA had long paid lip service to the ideal of African unions…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 4: World War I (1914 - 1918)
… This major event came to be known as the Great War which was the first war to be fought along modern industrial lines and … chemical weapons were introduced…
ArticleSharpeville
… On 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South … at police stations nearest their homes, and demand that the police arrest them…