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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… and has made no attempt to establish any branches of the main organisation. April, The African National Congress Youth … General South African History…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… The 1940s opened with the devastating Second World War in full … areas were living below the bread line. Politically, the 1940s were also ‘schizophrenic' …
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… trade unions. In the army only white people could serve main roles like being a soldier, Black people were given … trade unions. In the army only white…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… 1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps … earlier in the 1930s, others claim it was later than the 1940s. 1959 In Kinshasa, Democratic…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… Afrapix Chronology 1981-1991 …
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s …
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Walker and Tom … ‘“We First for Food”: Women and the Food Crisis…
ArticleThe missionaries
… the Xhosas and Zulus. The missionaries became Faku’s main channel of communication with the Cape Colony, and later … and Ellen Kuzwayo attended mission…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… their marriage and have their first child, a son. Early 1940s Abrahams becomes acquainted with George Pandmore and … the Fifth Pan-Africanist Conference in…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia … that there were several trade unions in Luderitz. The main…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be … than in their actual style of decoration. Since…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… extremely high. After the Second World War in the late 1940s, there was a large increase in the number of gangs in … they considered to be their own…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… or non-professional background than the politicians of the 1940s. UDF meeting, mid 1980's, probably Soweto. Photograph …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Women's Council (AWC), which was established in the mid-1940s. The AWC became active in issues relating to squatter … as early as the 1930s Afrikaans women…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… located at the head of the settlement, on axis with the main entry to the central space. Other wives of the senior … or it divided into two separate…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… after the formation CPSA in 1921 and the second was in the 1940s against the background of the Second World War. After … the ages of 14 and 28. This provided…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… already a state within a state by the end of the 1940s, saw it as its mission to think and dream for the … Smuts, causing Hertzog’s National Party to split…
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… African struggle against apartheid, especially in the 1940s. As a result of this newspaper's close ties to the ANC, …
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… black people and segregation. Resistance and campaigns The 1940s in South Africa were characterised by political and … also came from the Women's section of…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. By the late 1940s the African American intellectual leadership of the … of many Pan-Africanist advocates, as in…
ArticleTswana
… similar dialects, beliefs and society structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… during the 1930s, increasing significantly in the 1940s. Patterns of migration had also changed by the end of the 1930s and in the early 1940s. Families, as…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… has. The experiences of Sophiatown's community in the 1940s and 1950s have been captured for posterity by Can …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African … began to change. The labour shortages of…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… existing factories to diversify their output. By the late 1940s there was a spurt of industrial growth with the … White and Coloured labour, but later,…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… the authorities. .... It is to be borne in mind that the main object for which we are striving to raise the status of … control. A change in leadership…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… African Indian Congress (SAIC) . However, in the 1930s -1940s the TIC experienced more radical leadership when Dr. … which it helped form along with the NIC…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… (South African Indian Congress). However, in the 1930s-1940s the NIC experienced more radical leadership when Dr. … in militant struggles. Like the TIC, in…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… national movement for rights of all citizens until 1930s, 1940s South African Native National Congress (now known as … on the World Stage. In workshop on…