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EventParliament passes legislation separating the people of South Africa into four distinct races
… into four distinct races (White, Black, Coloured, and Indian) through the Population Registration Act No. 30 of … South African History Online, ‘The…
ArchiveThe background of segregation: address delivered to the National Anti-C.A.D. Conference
… groups and look upon themselves as African oppressed; Indian oppressed or Coloured oppressed and within these …
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… A successful boycott of elections for the South African Indian Council (SAIC), Footnote when these elections … the ANC. The president's attempts to draw…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… but also by delegates from a large number of African, Indian, Coloured and white organisations, as well as … The homes of leaders of the ANC, the Communist…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… of an alliance between Holland and Napoleon (South Africa History). Later, governors of the Cape Colony encouraged … land and were forced to serve the…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… well as motifs of violence linked back to South Africa’s history. This essay explores these issues in direct response … alongside a constant reminder of…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.4 Jul-Sept 1960
… the Cockrell, Michael Picardie. Cartoon, Gask. African and Indian in Durban, Fatima Meer. The Prisons of Apartheid, …
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… South African Communist Party (SACP) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). These mass arrests were executed a …
EventDemocratic Republic of Somali is formed
… coast of Africa and bordered by the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, were occupied by the two colonial powers since …
EventSix SA Tsunami survivors arrive at Lanseria
… left about 125 000 people dead along the shorelines of the Indian Ocean. Sixteen South Africans were still missing at …
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
… the protest and refused to attend classes. A number of Indian schools in Pretoria and KwaZulu-Natal joined the … (Accessed: 15 May 2013)| South African…
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
… under the leadership of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). The period 1950 -1952 began with a … (Accessed: 24 October 2012)| South African…
A Place of Freedom
… 1920 Manilal confessed to a friend: For a self-respecting Indian there is no room in this country. I feel happy and …
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… experienced one of its most turbulent years in its recent history, characterized by the deadly Ebola outbreak, … carats. [13] The Cullinan diamond, the…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… to our policy, because it ran counter to the course of our history to impute such ambitions to us, and because, if there … for this reason this House…
Chapter 12
… though they were leaders of a substantial section of the Indian people (the Nationalist Group) they were not in the official leadership of the South African…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Bibliography
… Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo. Journal of African History, Volume 29 : 487-519, 1988. Cobbing, Julian. Ousting … Steven Feierman, Leonard Thompson and…
PlaceBloemhof, North West
… Coverdale. Salamad is also a small residence, formerly an Indian Suburb situated in this Town. Bloemhof Dam, Bloemhof …
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… culture' or 'Coloured culture,' for instance? Throughout history, various people and institutions have attempted to … a cave dwelling or anything important…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… During her infant years her father, Columbus, was a local history teacher. In later years he was the minister of the … remains an enigmatic figure in South…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… a settler minority to all the people. Meanwhile, the small Indian community had carried on a great passive resistance … and preparations, the ANC and the…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… a settler minority to all the people. Meanwhile, the small Indian community had carried on a great passive resistance … and preparations, the ANC and the…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… from a young age. He was already the chairman of the Natal Indian Fisherman's Association for ten years. Padavatan … the financial and administrative…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… word ‘Africa’ are contentious, but there is much about its history that is known. We know that the word ‘Africa’ was … as Libya. Image source: www.mlahanas…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… knowledge of these highly complex patterns predate written history and were preserved through story-telling among male … male experts, the akwa kuta sona,…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… occurred in parallel with the revitalisation of the Natal Indian Congress that had been part of the Congress Alliance … 2. Progressive politics and civil…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… and P. van der Spuy. People of the Western Cape, A History for Schools . Cape Town, Juta, 2003. Beinart, William … 1987. Bonner, Philip and Noor Nieftagodien…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… that the Polokwane conference can be seen as a moment in history whereupon conflict within the ANC political party … factor for the first breakaway from the…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… political mobilisation was closely linked to its labour history. In order to understand how Port Elizabeth developed … into a politicised area, one has to…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Provincial Council. Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman. Source: New History of South Africa Cape Town) p231 In 1930, after a … is considered “one of the great…