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ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former…
PlaceBill Ainslie Studios, Johannesburg
The Bill Ainslie Studios was established in 1964 by Bill Ainslie, who was also known as William Stewart Ainslie, located at 6 Eastwold Way,…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
Introduction This year, 2009, the people of South Africa celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Harare Declaration, a significant…
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
Published and launched in January 2009 in partnership with Vivalia Press. Editors: Cornelius Thomas Statement of principles …
PlaceMolweni, Kwa Zulu Natal
The Population of Molweni is made up of mostly Black Africans, with Females being the predominate Gender! Molweni is a Residential Area of…
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
In 1904, after the outbreak of Bubonic Plague, near present day Newtown, the African population in the Area was moved to the Farm; …
BiographyMaggie Oewies-Shongwe
Maggie Oewies-Shongwe was born in 1940 in Namaqualand, Cape Province (now Northern Cape Province). As the youngest in the house, she often…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Southern Methodist University Partnership Project
South African History Online annually hosts “virtual internships” with Southern Methodist University students enrolled in a “History of…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
The following is an interview with Mr. Champion conducted in 1964 by Mr. Stanley Trapido, Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies…
ArchivePetition to the President of the Republic of South Africa to support South African History Online
Comrade George Naicker - 1919 – 1998 by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 April 1998
ArchiveCommemoration of the 50th Annivesary of the Natal Sabotage Trial (Little Rivonia)
ArchiveSouth African Students Organisation: Constitution and standing rules: adopted as revised and amended at the 2nd General Students Council, July 1971, Durban
BiographyJosephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood was born on 22 January 1874 in Grahamstown. She was one of the six children of the first mayor of Grahamstown,…
BiographyMaria Wilman
Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when she received a certificate. It was only in 1931,…