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Local Government
… system raised such fears that in elections for the new enlarged Sanitary Board in November 1889, no candidate … the Board quietly went out of office in…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… made to carry passes. In 1906 the government published new rules for the enforcing the passes and police were given … (Wells, 1983). In March 1912, a…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… Kalla explains that the SRC had been disputing the 10.5% increase for almost 4 months before the WitsFeesMustFall … business practise.” –Wits SRC statement …
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… 6 May, President Kruger lays the foundation stone for the new Raadsaal. It was to be a three-storey building designed … of Van Der Walt and Schoeman Streets…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… be studying the role of women in the progress towards the new South African democracy. The year 2006 was a landmark … with the Boers and ignored the claims…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… slave children are enrolled, so they are forced to take new identities. Nothing of their past was given recognition … In the course of the apartheid…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… violence and racially discriminative legislation, the new government had to strike a balance between nation building and addressing the land issue. New…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… 1895. November, the Hall family open the doors of their new hotel, mainly to accommodate railway construction … 1924 A direct route to Kaapschehoop is…
The Atlantic slave trade
… Nkuwu to Christianity. This led to divisions between the new Christians and followers of the traditional religions. … a fold, without regard to sex or age…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… a tea box and a stick, and a guitar made from an oil tin. [5] Johnny played on the streets which exposed him to kwela … of jazz music, so the group split…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… of community art centres as the building blocks of a new people-centred non-racial cultural practice, the … artists had an obligation to plan for the…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… banning of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) a new student’s structure was constituted to fill the void. The new structure called the Azanian…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… African National Students' Congress(SANSCO) introduced a new phase in school protests and student activity. Though the … Committee (IC) to prepare for the…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… would not be any massacres again. An old era ended and the new started. Mass demonstrations and protests happened in the … and they were migrant seasonal…
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… to Christianity every day and in Nigeria about 20 new religious sects or groups come into being every month. … and Islam. The most important thing is that in…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… J. du Plessis notes that “By the time of the advent of the new South Africa, about 17 000 statutory measures had been … revoking laws that dispossessed…
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… Thomas William Goodwin bought the paper and became the new editor. Under his leadership, the newspaper published … the leadership of George Farr, the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… the ‘ Strategy and Tactics ’ document as a way of giving new impetus to the struggle. 1960 Both the African National … future Premier of the Western Cape, is…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… barracks, capable of being easily dismantled and moved to new locations as the need arose. After working hours, … The Cape Post Office did not undertake the…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… over time as the white colonialist political hold over the new territories were established and structures of governance … State in 1895 prohibited farmers…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… were changed. They might have left something out, added a new bit, or changed things to make them easier to understand. … to make rain. Dzungudini fled to…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… of the fledgling town. In terms of the constitution of the new Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) a town was officially … Dirk van der Hoff (1814-1881) from…
Afrikaner
… (33, 7%) French (13, 2%) People of colour (7%) British (5, 2%) Unknown origin (3, 5%) Other Europeans (2, 6%) A unique cultural group was … working in the…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… by the SANNC to the British government were ignored and a new Union government was established. In this compromise … a growing confidence in the Afrikaner…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… to the Zulu boundary with Pretotius to help arrange a new boundary with Mpande. 1865 The Basuto murder several … the country in financial difficulty. He also…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… ANC support for a united response to the government’s new legislation. During his address Makgatho condemns the … Union of South Africa, along with Canada,…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… stance because of the influence of a number of new members from the New Era Fellowship (NEF). Click to enlarge After the … the TLSA worked closely with the…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… voters, i.e. about half the votes cast in favour of the 'new constitution' (1,300,000). These whites who did not vote obviously see nothing better or worse…
South African Labour Bulletin
… of contents. Two black and white photo's of men. Words 'new jobs - new skills - new divisions'. Yellow background with black lettering. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… Significantly, the National Party, which was renamed the New National Party (NNP), was disbanded and some of its … at Victoria Falls concerning the crisis in…