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Defiance Campaign 1952
The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions…
Defiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
1948 May 26, The National Party (NP) wins election and immediately introduces apartheid (separateness) measures against Blacks, Indian…
Defining Black Consciousness
" Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the Black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of…
Defining culture, heritage and identity
What is heritage and identity? Questions of heritage and identity are not as straightforward as they might first appear. Perhaps the first…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
The following article is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The…
Definition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
There are two types of World Heritage Sites. The first represents cultural and the second natural heritage. Cultural sites Cultural…
Definitions: Capitalism, Communism, Marxism and Revolution
Delegates in attendance at the SANNC Founding Conference in 1912
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Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
The African National Congress (ANC) in exile developed strategies to influence public opinion within South Africa with the view to…
Democratic Alliance (DA)
The Democratic Alliance (DA), previously named the Democratic Party (DP), was formed on 8 April 1989, when the former Progressive Federal…
Desmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
19317 October, Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa.1961Desmond Tutu is ordained as a…
Desmond Tutu’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, December 1984, Oslo, Norway
Despite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
Abstract In 1994, South Africans were liberated from a system of apartheid which had controlled their lives for nearly fifty years…
Developments leading to the New Dispensation
By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising, the Apartheid government was forced to consider reforms to…
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New words Independent: This means separate from one another or not linked in any way. Free and fair elections: These are elections in…