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A History of South Africa

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by Leonard Thompson

Genadendal, 59, 61

  General Laws Amendment Act (1966), 199

  Ginwala, Frene, 313

  Ginwala Commission, 313

  Global apartheid, 292

  Gold: in precolonial societies, 5, 32; in Natal and Afrikaner republics, 72, 107; pre-1910, 110, 114–15, 119–20, 132, 138. See also Mining industries

  Goldstone, Judge Richard, 249; commission, 255

  Gordhan, Pravin, 330

  Government: provincial, 227; regional, 227; responsible, 63, 133; representative, 63, 91; Volksraad, 91–93, 102, 133, 136–37, 139. See also Constitutions; names of political parties and government agencies

  Government of National Unity, 268. See also Power sharing

  Graaff-Reinet, 46–51, 210

  Grahamstown, 55, 74–75

  Grahamstown Journal, 69, 88

  Great Depression (1929–32), 154, 161

  Great Trek, 69, 87–96, 162, 173. See also Voortrekkers

  Green Drop program, 335

  Griqua, 83, 86, 117

  Griqualand: East, 92; West, 117, 128, 133

  Grootboom decision, 305, 307

  Group Areas Act (1950), 194, 238, 245

  Growth, Employment, and Redistribution (GEAR), 281–82

  Guerrillas, 246, 257, 259, 270, 272

  Guns: and hunters, 4; in pre-1870 Cape Colony, 40, 43, 47, 50; in colonial Natal and Afrikaner republics, 71, 76, 91, 94, 103–4, 106; post-1870, 124–25, 141–42, 171, 199, 257, 270

  Gupta family, 316, 321

  Guptagate, 321

  Hani, Chris, 246, 248

  Harare Declaration, 246, 247

  Healdtown, 172

  Health, 7, 27, 33, 195, 202–4, 236, 283–84. See also Diseases

  Health care, under Mbeki, 307–9; under Zuma, 336–38

  Heemraden, 47–48, 57, 68, 92

  Hendrickse, Allen, 238

  Herders. See Pastoralists

  Hertzog, J. B. M., 151, 158, 162, 186, 187, 195

  Het Volk, 145–47, 149

  Heunis, Chris, 236

  Heyns, Johan, 271

  Hintsa, 75–76

  HIV, 289, 307–9, 313, 336–37, 340, 353

  Hlophe, John, 297–98

  Hofmeyr, J. H., 180–83, 186

  Hogan, Barbara, 313

  Homelands. See Reserves; names of individual homelands

  Homestead, 106, 127, 171

  Horses, 40, 47, 62, 94, 106, 142

  Hottentots. See Khoikhoi

  House of Assembly, 150, 162, 225, 237

  House of Delegates, 225, 238

  House of Representatives, 225, 238

  Housing: under Mbeki, 305–7; under Zuma, 336

  Human Development Index, 289, 329, 354–56

  Human Poverty Index, 329

  Human rights, 235–36, 247, 250–51, 267–69, 299–300

  Human Rights Watch, 318

  Hunter-gatherers: precolonial, 4–12, 14, 16, 28, 30–31; in pre-1870 Cape Colony, 46, 48–50

  ID. See Independent Democrats

  Ideology, 27, 42, 140, 190, 197, 235, 246, 272, 274–75

  IFP, 293, 315, 316, 322, 324, 325

  Illegal immigrants, 257

  Immigrants. See White immigrants

  Immigration, illegal, under Zuma, 342–44

  Income, inequalities in, 303, 330

  Independent Democrats (ID), 294, 322, 324

  India: pre-1870, 11, 31–32, 36–37, 53, 63, 65; post-1870, 188, 211, 233, 330–31

  Indians: terminology, xviii; pre-1948, 100, 171; 1948–78, 190, 194, 197, 201, 203; post-1978, 222, 224–26, 238, 242, 246

  Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa (icu), 156, 176–77

  Industrial Conciliation Act (1924), 169, 179

  Information, access to, 294–95

  Initiation, 24, 27, 84, 104

  Inkatha, 191, 230, 246, 249–50, 252, 255, 257, 258–59, 260, 261–64, 268, 270, 276, 278, 327, 340

  Inkatha Freedom Party. See Inkatha

  Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa, 244

  Institute of Race Relations. See South African Institute of Race Relations

  Intellectuals, 158, 174–77, 180, 182, 184–86, 243, 248

  Interim constitution, 249, 250–55, 260, 269, 270, 271

  Internal Security Act (1976), 199

  International Conference against Racism, 292

  International Criminal Court, 327

  International Monetary Fund, 298

  Iran, 209

  Iron: in precolonial societies, 5, 10, 12–13, 16–19; in pre-1870 Cape Colony, 32, 37, 40; post-1870, 115, 177

  Iron and Steel Corporation (ISCOR), 177

  Isandhlwana, 124

  Israel, 200, 243

  Ivory, 47, 50, 53, 71, 83, 105

  Jameson, L. S., 139, 158

  Jameson Raid, 115, 139

  Jansen, Jonathan, 339

  Jiang Zemin, 299

  Johannesburg, 156, 194–95, 207–8, 227, 250, 251, 261, 266, 306, 318, 325

  JSC. See Judicial Service Commission

  Judicial Service Commission, 297, 323

  Judiciary: independence of, 293, 298; prominence of, 297; under Zuma, 322–33

  Kadfalie, Clements, 175

  Kajee, Abdulla Ismail, 175

  Kalahari Desert, 7–8, 13, 15, 81

  Kasrils, Ronnie, 254, 342

  Kat River, 62–63, 77

  Kei River, 12–13, 73–76, 78–80

  Keiskamma, 54–55, 75–77

  Khoikhoi, 58–62, 88. See also Pastoralists

  Kimberley, 115–21, 155, 211

  Kingdoms. See names of individual kingdoms

  Kok, Adam, 94, 96

  Kriegler, Johann, 297–98

  Kruger, Paul, 101, 104, 124, 138–39, 142–43

  Kunene, Mazisi, 87

  !Kung, 8–9, 15

  KwaNdebele, 229

  KwaZulu, 16, 191, 193, 230, 237, 249–51

  KwaZulu-Natal province, 249–51, 254–55, 260, 263–64, 270, 273, 288, 340

  Laager, 71, 90

  Labor: precolonial, 7, 22; in pre-1870 Cape Colony, 37, 57, 61, 65, 68; in Natal and Afrikaner republics, 72, 75, 77, 80, 92, 98–101, 103, 109; 1870–1910, 111, 115, 117–21, 125, 127–29, 131, 143–47; post-1910, 222, 224; unrest under Zuma, 331–33. See also Migrant labor; Trade unions

  Land Acts, 245

  Landdrosts, 46–47, 57, 59, 68, 92, 102–3

  Land reform, 245, 250–51, 253, 261, 266, 277

  Land tenure: pre-1870, 23, 46, 68, 77, 97, 99–101; post-1870, 132, 228

  Landowners, 68, 132

  Langalibalele, 127

  Langa, Pius, 297

  Languages: Afrikaans, 135, 160, 195–96, 197, 198; Bantu (Nguni and Sotho), 6, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 30; bilingualism, 160; diversity of, 39, 52; Dutch, 144, 151, 158, 160; English, 68, 87, 136, 151, 158, 160, 196, 197; French, 87; German, 87, 184; in Interim Constitution, 250–51; Italian, 87; Khoisan, 7, 30

  Law courts, 43, 59, 68, 150, 190–91, 199. See also Appellate Division of the Supreme Court

  Law on Anti-Terrorism (2004), 294

  League of Nations, 159, 214

  Legislation: Cape Colony under the Dutch, 41–43; Cape Colony under the British, 54, 57–58, 60, 64–65; Afrikaner republics, 102; colonial Natal, 98–100; Union and Republic of South Africa, 161–62, 165, 167, 179, 194–99, 226–27. See also names of principal acts; Security legislation

  Lekota, Mosiuoa, 314, 315

  Lerotholi, 129

  Lesotho: precolonial, 4, 17–18, 27; and white conquest, 86–87, 94–96, 103–4, 106–7; and apartheid, 214–15, 230–31

  Letsie, 129

  Liberalism, 175–76, 188

  Libya, 326–27

  Lille, Patricia de, 294

  Limpopo Provincial Executive Committee, 320

  Limpopo River, 5, 12–13, 30, 72, 80, 86, 90

  Livingstone, David, 103

  Lobengula, 138

  Local government: provincial, 227; regional, 227; urban, 169, 229,
237, 239

  Locations. See Reserves

  London Missionary Society, 53, 59, 61, 94

  Lonmin, 331

  Lovedale, 156, 172–73

  Lutuli, Albert, 208–11

  Machel, Graça, 342

  Macia, Mido, 342

  Macmillan, Harold, 213

  Magistrates, 68, 77, 79, 125–28, 171–72

  Maharaj, Mac, 248, 316, 320

  Mahomed, Ismail, 271

  Mail and Guardian, 293, 294–95, 300, 316–17, 321

  Malala, Justice, 320, 323–24, 331

  Malan, D. F., 151, 177, 186, 189

  Malan, Magnus, 224, 270

  Malawi, 81, 86, 176, 213, 231

  Malema, Julius, 319, 321, 326

  Mandela Day, 344, 345

  Mandela, Nelson: pre-1965, 182; 1965–1989, 230, 233, 244, 245; post-1989, 246–56, 259–64; post-1994, 266, 268, 270, 271, 273, 274–76, 278–81, 290, 292, 299, 300, 327, 343, 344–45

  Mandela (Nelson) Foundation, 318

  Mandela, Winnie, 251, 269, 274

  Mangena, Alfred, 174

  Mangaung Massacre, 319

  Mantashe, Gwede, 298, 322, 326

  Manuel, Trevor, 302, 313

  Manufacturing industries, 111, 154–56, 167–69, 178, 180, 193

  Mao Zedong, 303

  Marikana, 331–33, 336

  Marikana Massacre, 332

  Maritz, Gerritt, 90

  Marriage, 19, 22–23, 25, 40, 45, 190

  Marxism, 246, 274–75

  Matthews, Z. K., 173, 183

  Mayosi, Bongani, 337

  Mbeki, Thabo, 244, 268, 288, 289, 290, 291; presidency of, 291–312, 313, 314, 324, 327, 328

  Mbeki (Thabo) Foundation, 324

  Mboweni, Tito, 292

  MDG. See UN Millennium Development Goals

  Media, 198, 235–36, 252, 256, 273, 275

  Meiring, General Piet, 272

  Merriman, John X., 147

  Meyer, Piet J., 184, 198

  Meyer, Roelf, 254

  Mfecane, 80–87

  Mfengu, 62, 75, 77, 79–81, 87

  Migrant labor, 2; 1870–1910, 111, 118–19, 128–29, 131; 1910–48, 157, 164, 167, 178, 181, 186; post-1948, 192–93, 222, 230, 246, 249

  Migration, 10–13, 28, 30, 67, 88

  Milner, Alfred, 140–41, 144–45, 148, 152–53

  Mine compounds, 118–19, 121, 168

  Mineral discoveries, 109–10, 115

  Mines and Works Act (1911), 167

  Mine Workers’ Union, 167

  Mining industries: origins of, 110–11, 115–21, 127–28, 131; and the South African War, 136–44; and reconstruction, 143–53; post-1910, 154–59, 165–68, 177–80, 239; and pollution, 266

  Missionaries, 16–17, 19, 22, 24; in pre-1870 Cape Colony, 50, 53, 58–59, 61, 68–69; in Natal and Afrikaner republics, 71, 75, 78, 93–94, 99–101, 104; post-1870, 122–24, 126–33, 156, 164, 171–73, 191

  Mixed farmers: economy of, 15–21; society of, 21–30

  Mlambo-Ngcuka, Phumzile, 302

  Modise, Joe, 269, 272

  Mofolo, Thomas, 87

  Mogoeng, Mogoeng, 322, 323

  Monongoaha, Oriel, 178

  Montsioa, George, 175

  Moody’s, 330

  Moseneke, Dikgang, 322

  Moshoeshoe, 86, 94–95, 106–7

  Mosquitoes, 20, 93, 104

  Motlana, Dr. Ntatho, 273

  Motlanthe, Kgalema, 290, 296–97, 313–15, 318–19

  Motsepe, Patrice, 329

  Movement for Democratic Change, 300

  Mozambique: pre-1870, 3, 16, 32, 36, 45, 84; post-1870, 214, 216, 231–32, 236, 257, 269, 299, 342

  Mpande, 91

  Mpondo, 18, 72

  Mpumalanga province, 334

  Msimang, Richard, 174–75

  Mswati, 86

  Mthethwa, Nathi, 313, 340

  Mthimkulu, Oupa Thando, 238

  Mufamadi, Sidney, 273

  Mugabe, Robert, 216, 300–301, 328

  Multiparty Forum, 325

  Multiparty Negotiating Forum, 325

  Muslims, 36, 65

  Myanmar, 209

  Mzilikazi, 86–87, 91, 93, 138

  Namibia: pre-1948, 4–5, 8, 70, 159, 187; post-1948, 214, 222, 230–32, 236, 239–40, 243, 300

  Natal: precolonial, 4, 7, 12, 18, 21–22; pre-1870, 65, 72, 75, 85, 90–92, 96–100; post-1870, 158, 208, 230, 249–50, 260

  National Assembly, 269, 273

  National Building Regulations, 306

  National Council of Provinces, 269

  National Executive Committee (of the ANC), 296, 297, 320

  National Housing Code (2000), 305

  National Income Dynamics Study, 329

  Nationalism. See Afrikaner nationalism

  National party: 1910–48, 162; 1948–78, 187–88, 190, 198, 207; 1978–89, 223–26, 234, 237; post-1989, 247–50, 255, 269–70, 271, 272, 288, 294, 346

  National Prosecuting Authority, 295

  National Security Study Memorandum 39, 219, 232

  National Union of Mineworkers, 331

  National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), 205, 212

  Nation-building, 290

  Native Laws Amendment Act (1937), 180

  Natives Land Act (1913), 163–64, 245

  Natives Representative Council, 182, 185

  Native Trust and Land Act (1936), 180, 245

  Naudé, C. F. Beyers, 204–5, 239

  Ndebele, 86–90, 93, 102

  Ndlambe, 73, 80

  NEC. See National Executive Committee

  Negotiating Forum, 249, 250

  NEPAD. See New Partnership for Africa’s Development

  New Age, 316

  New National Party, 294

  New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 299

  Ngcobo, Sandile, 322

  Ngoyi, Lilian, 209

  Ngqika, 73, 75, 77, 80

  Nicholson, Chris, 296

  Nigeria, 299, 300

  Nkandlagate, 320–21

  NNP. See New National Party

  Nongqawuse, 78–79

  NPA. See National Prosecuting Authority

  Ntsebeza, Dumisa, 298

  Nuclear weapons, 262

  num. See National Union of Mineworkers

  Nzimande, Blade, 320

  Nzo, Alfred, 251

  OECD. See Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

  Open Democracy Advice Centre, 293

  Oppenheimer, Harry, 206, 244

  Orange Free State: pre-1910, 12, 72, 83–84, 102; post-1910, 144, 147–49, 158, 163–64, 189, 195

  Organization of African Unity (OAU), 214–15, 299, 300

  Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 303

  Ossewa Brandwag (Oxwagon Sentinel), 189, 198

  Pahad, Essop, 289, 292

  Pan-Africanist Congress (pac), 210–11, 213, 233, 244, 246, 252, 268, 272, 274, 294

  Pan African Parliament, 299

  Pandor, Naledi, 310

  Paris Evangelical Mission Society, 94

  Passes: pre-1870, 37, 103; 1870–1910, 118, 121, 144; post-1910, 157, 165–67, 181, 193

  Pastoralists: precolonial, 10–16, 18, 20, 28–31; in pre-1870 Cape Colony, 33, 35, 37, 45–46, 50

  Pather, P. R., 175

  Paton, Alan, 205

  Pedi, 16, 72, 103–4, 135, 201, 272

  Peires, Jeff, 29, 55, 79

  Philip, John, 59–61, 65

  Phiyega, Mangashi Victoria, 332, 341

  Pietermaritzburg, 97, 100, 108, 260

  Pikoli, Vusi, 313–14

  Pistorius, Oscar, 341–42

  Plaatje, Solomon, 87, 164

  Police, pre-1948, 178–79; 1948–78, 194, 199–200, 210, 213; 1978–89, 224, 228–29, 232, 235–36, 238; post-1989, 247, 249, 256, 257–58, 259–60, 270–71, 273, 276, 340–42

  Political mythology, 135, 162, 197–98, 247, 272

  Pollsmoor prison, 245

  Poor Whites: pre-1910, 64, 112,
132; post-1910, 155, 162, 169, 172, 188–89

  Population, 348–49

  Population estimates and censuses: precolonial African societies, 21–22, 25; Cape Colony (1793), 47, (1865), 66; slaves, 36; free Blacks, 44–45; Cape Town (1795), 51; Kat River settlement, 62; Voortrekkers, 88; Afrikaner republics, 101; colonial Natal, 92, 97, 100; Southern Africa (1870), 53, 108; Union of South Africa (1936), 166, 170–71, (1950), 194–95; Republic of South Africa, 195, 221–22, 266. See also Appendix: table 1

  Population Registration Act (1950), 190, 245

  Populism, 273–74

  Poqo, 211

  Port Elizabeth: pre-1948, 18, 55, 59, 67; post-1948, 193–94, 208, 227–28, 260

  Portugal, 31–32, 214–16, 232

  Portuguese, 11, 31–32, 36, 52, 83–84

  Potchefstroom, 93, 101, 247, 261

  Potgieter, Andries Hendrik, 90, 93, 138

  Poverty, 200–204, 245–46, 256, 263, 302, 303–4, 308, 312, 328–29

  Power sharing, 249, 250, 269–70

  President’s Council, 224–25

  Pretoria, 88, 162, 195, 207, 237, 238, 254

  Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging triangle, 227, 229. See also Gauteng

  Pretorius, Andries, 91–92

  Program of Action, 301–2

  Progressive Federal party (PFP), 188, 206, 237, 244, 247

  Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA), 292–93, 294, 321

  Propaganda: pre-1948, 162, 181, 184; post-1948, 197, 223, 227, 233–34

  Prophets, 77–78

  Protection of Information Act (1982), 317

  Protection of State Information Bill, 317–18

  Provinces, 250, 251, 252–53, 260, 269, 271, 272

  Public Safety Act (1953), 199

  Quality of life, under Zuma, 333–34

  QwaQwa, 194, 202

  Race: education and, 310; inequality between and within, 329; wealth and, 303–4

  Railways: pre-1870, 53, 67, 108; 1870–1910, 122, 128, 131, 137, 142, 148–49; post-1910, 50, 164, 166, 229–30

  Rainfall: precolonial, 4–5, 7, 10–12, 16, 20, 29–30; 1652–1910, 81, 90, 130

  Ramaphosa, Cyril, 239, 251, 253–54, 268, 319, 320, 325, 329, 331, 346

  Ramathlodi, Ngoako, 341

  Ramphele, Mamphela, 325–26

  Reagan, Ronald, 232, 234

  Rebellion: pre-1870, 26, 44, 51–53, 61, 67, 73; post-1870, 114, 127–28, 134, 148, 157, 159

  Reconciliation, 244, 254, 268–69, 274, 275, 276, 291–92

  Reconstruction, 143–53

  Reconstruction and Development Program (rdp), 279–82, 283

  Refugees, 52, 72, 75, 81, 230

  Regional Services Council, 227

  Reitz, Deneys, 181

  Relly, Gavin, 244

  Reporters Without Borders World Freedom Index, 318

  Representation of Natives Act (1936), 175, 180

 

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