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ArchiveSouth African Families of Indian Descent: Transmission of Racial Identity by Kathryn Pillay
ArchiveFeya Faku as I knew him – a tribute to the great South African jazz trumpeter
ArchiveThe Legacy Series - Celebrating Women in South African History (Department of Education booklet)
ArchiveArt towards social development - An exhibition of South African art, Botswana, 1982
ArchiveReflections of South African Student Leaders: 1994-2017 by Luescher, Webbstock and Bhengu
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
Steve ‘Kalamazoo’ Mokone was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. He became the first black professional footballer to play in Europe, when he signed for the…
ArchivePetition to the President of the Republic of South Africa to support South African History Online
ArchivePresidential Address by Mr S Mapogo Makgatho, South African Native Congress, 1918
ArchiveState of African National Congress discussion document from ANC veterans and stalwarts
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda's former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in 1960. Obote became Uganda's Prime Minister after…
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
… Stott to become more aware of the living conditions of Africans, and in particular, African women. In 1955 she … suggestion, the black sash started an advice…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
… British communities were going to unite in excluding Black Africans from the region’s future. In the early 1900s she … fundamentally on many issues. Betty…
BiographyAmbrose Makiwane
… to restrict the University of Fort Hare to Xhosa speaking Africans and was to bring the university under the Department … within the ANC which rejected the…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… the racial discrimination and persecution of Black South Africans. Weinberg’s political activism started in 1930 at … the struggle for freedom and human…
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
… ANC'S unsuccessful campaign to forestall the removal of Africans from the area, which whites find to be too near the …
George John Golding
… efforts to enlarge cooperation in sports among Coloureds, Africans, and Indians, his general orientation was toward …
BiographySelbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi
… only university opened to Black, Indian and Coloured South Africans as well as students from other English speaking … only teacher training art course…
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
… made his way through the educational channels then open to Africans, going from St. Peter's Secondary School through …
BiographyMax Yergan
… organisation dedicated to opposing the oppression of Africans. After being ousted as the director of the Council …
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
… and discussion groups as well as a night school for Africans. In order to support her family, Bodenstein started …
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… to work, when to sleep, when to relax. As an example of Africans’ subjection to inhumane abuses: workers were … the South African region. In Natal , wealthy…
BiographyRobert John McBride
… was A. J. Venter’s Coloured: A profile of 2 million South Africans, an unusually progressive book for its time which … were killed and injured still stands…
BiographyAmy Thornton
… citizens and prominent foreigners, is given to South Africans who have contributed significantly to the struggle … the face of the struggle, is an…
BiographyBlanche la Guma
… by promoting segregation and the dominance of white South Africans. In 1966, Alex and Blanche went into exile, … returned to Cape Town when amnesty was…
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
… Witwatersrand and he opened the first workshop for blind Africans in South Africa ”” Ezenzeleni, in Roodepoort””where …
BiographyKaizer Motaung
… . In 2004 he was voted 73 rd in “the top 100 Great South Africans”, and was awarded the Entrepreneurial Leadership …
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… workers. These strike actions, undertaken mainly by Africans in low paying occupations, were frowned upon by … as they continued to negotiate for the…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… equality was seen as foolish and a threat to White South Africans. Botha was first elected to the national parliament … war that broke out escalated to…
BiographyWalton Zacharias Fenyang
… School in Thaba 'Nchu,a co-educational bording school for Africans, one of very few such schools in the country at that …
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
… association and becoming a local spokesman for the ANC. In 1947 he helped Michael Scott and Ruth First in their press exposure of the near slavery…