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ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… 2014), 76. ↵ [3] Marion Wallace (with John Kinnahan), A History of Namibia. From the Beginning to 1990 (London: …
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… which he attended from 1948 until 1957, and whose school history block is now named after him. Stones against the …
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… harvest and the hum of tractors lies a region steeped in history. Travelling through this part of the province is a …
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… (SHA's 1993 annual magazine) revealing some fascinating history about beacons and boundaries. A Beacon, or Boundary …
ArchiveSpeech at the Unveiling of the Samora Machel Memorial, Mbuzini, Tuesday 19 January 1999
… with similar efforts throughout our region, helps affirm a history that was distorted and neglected under the old order. …
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… to be a free citizen of Boksburg. It is a city whose own history embodies our country's past and its hopes for the …
Address by President Nelson Mandela North West stadium Welkom, 27 August 1995
… it is ANC candidates that have been selected who have a history of working for a better life for the people of South …
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 36 … South Africa's Radical Tradition a…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… Prehistory to the year 2000, unpublished papers with SA History Online. …
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… you now could well be the turning point in our country's history. It would unite the overwhelming majority of our …
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… peacefully and to demonstrate covers. Given South Africa's history of repression, and particularly repression against …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… led a Progressive Federal Party delegation to Lusaka. The history of the PFP, in its various incarnations and … Harare to meet with the ANC. Nusas, which…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… traditions that have played a major role in shaping the history and diversity of Cape Town. Origins The exploration … The language and musical style of this…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… witnessed a momentous chain of events in its political history. The Durban Strikes were a turning point in the … South Africa, has witnessed three major…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… It searches for peace and hope. It is beckoned by history to take sides. The photographers in this book have. … films and oral histories in an effort to…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… it is now possible to take a more sympathetic view of its history, and its early history in particular. In many ways the Society became a …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… Ndebele teachers were prohibited from teaching the history of their people and that Northern Ndebele leaders had been incarcerated on flimsy pretexts. As…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa women – … make a change is what brought these…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 58 … Against multi-racialism we have this…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… been carried out by black South Africans. Overview The history of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa dates …
The Atlantic slave trade
… try to watch the movie 'Amistad' in class. Picture source: history.sandiego.edu There was a great deal of resistance to …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… as a prolonged period of political quiescence in the history of the struggle against apartheid until the outbreak …
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal … Archive." Jwa.Org. [5] "Ruth Heloise First…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… M. Mabhida, “African Communists Speak: Documents from the History of the South African Communist Party 1915-1980” … 2013), p.744. [4] Lodge, Tom. Red Road to…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… authority from the governed. As a result, for most of its history, the ANC’s political practices have leaned heavily on … the Soweto uprising. The uprising…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… them for their outstanding contribution. Because the history of the past thirty years is as vast as the road we … Sharpeville, of course, marked a major…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… individual, in anyone who is a human being. In fact, the history of mankind is the history of man struggling and striving for freedom. Indeed, … vision is a…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 24 … In fact we doubt whether the A.N.C. has…
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
… this question, to take a moment to reflect on the history of our engagement, going back many centuries. For … giraffe. We, ourselves, have arrived at this…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… harshest prisons. The city of Barberton is known to history as one of soot and soil. Located in what was then the … [2] “Barberton,” South African History…