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ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began … Subsequently Johannesburg and Cape Town were to become the main FSAW centres. An…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… General South African History Timeline: 1950s …
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… GRADE 12 Topic 3: Civil society protests 1950s to 1970s Online Resource: … set.co.za/resources/history/grade-12/civil-society-protests-1950s-1970s [Accessed…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… Afrapix Chronology 1981-1991 …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… ANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s …
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… Casalis, Smith and Livingstone. In time this became the main route to the Kimberley diamond fields. Port Elizabeth … of a progressive trade union movement,…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… aftermath of World War II. Consequently, throughout the 1950s unrest in African, Coloured and Indian communities … the Netherlands, the United States, and…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s … a job as a writer for the magazine. Towards the end…
ArticleThe missionaries
… the Xhosas and Zulus. The missionaries became Faku’s main channel of communication with the Cape Colony, and later … of many Black women and men of South…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… the Afrikaner Nationalist Party came to power in 1948. The main difference is that apartheid made segregation part of … for apartheid, although they are all…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… Bertha Mashaba began to be heard. In fact, the 1940s and 1950s highlight the changing role of African women, and … of the apartheid regime and as the 1940s…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… spelling book, some hymns, and a small catechism. Their main literary task was the translation of the Bible into … the first full-length published work of…
Gallery
… on the applicable image However, it was not until the 1950s that the Women’s struggle really gained momentum. In fact the 1950s is often referred to as the …
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… since the mass meetings of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. The initial aim of the UDF was to oppose the … and Victoria Mxenge was elected as secretary…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… have been forced to adopt a different way of life. In the 1950s, several thousand San people were still hunting large … several years living with the !Kung…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… to achieve national liberation developed during the 1950s – and this bond extended into the exile years and … bond built up in exile post 1950. From the…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… the National Party, and to lay down its principles. The main aim was to direct the people’s ambitions and beliefs … groups made the SAP's rule more difficult…
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 … 1960 Internal resistance against apartheid…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… The experiences of Sophiatown's community in the 1940s and 1950s have been captured for posterity by Can Themba , Bloke … of Sophiatown and the stiffening of…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Resistance to the pass laws intensified during the 1950s, and various protests took place. These included … aftermath of World War II and continued growing…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… a prominent member of the APO who played a key role as the main organiser of the TLSA’s founding Conference under the … the league began withdrawing from the…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… them to be undisciplined and weak. In Johannesburg in the 1950s, crime was a day-to-day reality, and Sophiatown was the … they considered to be their own…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… that Coloured politics took another direction in the 1950s. Before the introduction of Apartheid, there were … movements. Its activities were concentrated on…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… problems, known as CODESA. Gender equality was one of the main arguments among these multi-party conferences. With the … president of both the ANCWL and FSAW…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… the rights of Black people in South Africa. However, the 1950s and the early 1960s, showed the intension by the South … leading to the decision to take up…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… to new measures passed by the apartheid government in the 1950s. One of the factors that loomed large in the general … a year earlier. The May Day protest…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… then in 1956 or today. Issues that concerned women in the 1950s can be described as 'bread and butter' matters, such as … as early as the 1930s Afrikaans…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga/maskhandi of the hostel dwellers, bubblegum … slums and mensetaal (People's language…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… music was also heavily influenced in the 1940s and 1950s by American music and American movies. Hollywood's two … out a pennywhistle and begin to play…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress … to be confined to house arrest. With the loss of its three main leaders there was no…