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ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… protest against the importation of Chinese workers. 1911: Indian plantation workers went on strike over working … number of hours they were expected to work…
ArticleTransport on land
… Africa. The cousin of the African elephant, the Asian or Indian elephant, is slightly smaller and easier to tame. In … bicycle, it was invented by John Kemp…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… receiving a first in sociology, anthropology, economic history and native administration. 1947 First gets a job at … years. 1963 First’s South West Africa ,…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… 1. The year 1950 was a turning point in the political history of the African people in this country. It was marked … Government is wedded. It is intended to…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 39 … against the British Legislative Council…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… appointed him as minister of community development and Indian affairs, and later tourism and Coloured affairs as …
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… the establishment of the SAP, mineworkers’ strike and Indian Passive Resistance campaign erupted on the … South African History Online , ‘South African…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… were allocated to White people while Black, Coloured and Indian people were removed to areas outside the urban areas …
The CASA Conference
… into the AABN at the International Institute of Social History. The conference included the participation of the …
The National Flag
… are a synopsis of principal elements of the country's flag history. Individual colours, or colour combinations have …
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… Act of 1950. The four groups were White, Coloured, Indian and Black. Using these categories, the apartheid … www.southendmuseum.co.za [Accessed: 04 July…
EventMembers of the AAM hand over a memorandum to Verwoerd's private secretary about Apartheid policies
… Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, former president of the South African Indian Congress and J. Kozonguisi of the South African United …
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… African Communist Party (SACP), the ANC, South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Coloured … [Accessed on 28 March 2013]| COSATU Brief…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… Natal Law Society opposed his application because he was Indian. The president of the Natal Law Society, David …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… according to race. Gandhi was practising as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event …
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… Hospital Medical College. In 1881 he joined the Indian medical service and visited Madras, Burma and Andaman …
EventBritain proposes the sale of arms to South Africa
… of maritime trade routes in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Britain's proposal threatened to cause the …
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… as a teacher. I grew to love that Mahbubia School and the Indian girls and their families. Hyderabad was the largest … Notwithstanding all this, I absorbed…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and English in 1952 and in the same year, went back … Blake, R. A. (1977). A History of Rhodesia…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… in 2012 is a momentous event in South African and African history. It will also be the occasion for nationwide … the present. Since 1994, public engagement…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… and the "Empty Land" Myth Historiographical Debates: Whose History? Legacy Further Reading References Introduction The … African societies as inherently…
PlaceSomalia
… Mogadishu, is located just north of the Equator on the Indian Ocean. The original Inhabitants were introduced to … a population of approximately; 14 065 000…
PlaceMogwase, Bojanala Region
… has a predominantly Black African population, with fewer Indian, Coloured and White groups, mostly residing in Sun …
PlaceSutelong a township in the West of Mortele, Pretoria
… African people are 4,044 making up 99.85% of population. Indian or Asian are 5 people. White is 1 person. (This was …
ArticleThe Western Front
… successfully beaten back by a joint force of British and Indian armies. Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 – 13 March 1915: …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… in a liberatory struggle it is necessary to rewrite the history of the past. It is part of the very process of liberation to expose the distortions of…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… groups in Namibia and Zambia. While the Sotho people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, their history had an important…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… The history of the Young Communist League (YCL) dates back to … 25 May 1922 as the date of its official formation. History reveals that there is evidence of…
PlaceNelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
… art, international printmaking and Oriental art (including Indian miniatures and Chinese textiles). The the Arts Hall … art, international printmaking and…