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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…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s …
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… Afrapix Chronology 1981-1991 …
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… has. The experiences of Sophiatown's community in the 1940s and 1950s have been captured for posterity by Can …
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…