Africa

Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules

A packed courtroom clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Sec...

Mafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017

The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership w...

List of Members of the Satyagraha Movement

The chapter was taken from the book Pioneers of the Satyagraha, Indian South Africans Defy Racist Laws, 1907 - 1914 by E...

To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),

Two different current Narratives refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what ...

Staffrider, Vol. I No. I March 1978

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Audio - An Evening with FW de Klerk – the Full Event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017

An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)

It’s 28 years ago that FW became leader of the National Party and he won against Barend du Plessis. Has Barend du Plessi...

Collected Poems by Mafika Pascal Gwala edited by Mandla Langa and Ari Sitas

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Staffrider Presents: South Africa Through the Lens - Social Documentary Photography

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Full Frame - South African Documentary Photography Vol. 1 No. 1 June 1990

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“Lions and Jackals“ Peace Parks in Southern Africa and their Effects on the local Population - An Analysis based on the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park by Robert Konrad

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Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017

Unit 731. Sound familiar? Probably not. Until recently, I didn’t know what they were. Or what they did. Unit 731 was a...

Mafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016

The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership w...

Sunny Girja Singh

Chairman of Military Committee in Maputo, Robben island prisoner, exile, member of uMkhonto weSizwe, ANC Representative ...

Groot Drakenstein

Simon van der Stel, arguably the first coloured Governor of the Cape, was a farming development visionary, who simply fr...