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ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
1 January Battle of Artois and Champagne in France begins. 31 January 1915 The German Army makes use of poison gas for the first time in an attack on the…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
Historical Context to Paul Kruger 1825 Paul Kruger is born to Casper Jan Hendrik Kruger and Elsie Francina Steyn 1835 Paul Kruger's father situated…
10 YEARS PROJECT
close Document 18 The Pretoria Minute 6 August 1990 The government and the ANC have held discussions at the Presidency, Pretoria, today 6 August…
"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960
The eminent British statesman, Mr. Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Britain turned to Africa, including the Union, "to see." But, in the end, he did more…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 4: Medicine through time
Isangomas and inyangas are the two main types of indigenous or traditional healers in South Africa. Isangomas Isangomas are spiritual healers and are often…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.4 Nov-Dec 1979
Contents and Contributors Stories: A Conversion by Michael Silum, It exists by Denis Beckett; Man Against Himself by Joel Matlou. Jazz and Rugby, Tough Games…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… the face of gratuitous violence that forms it, two dictums map our conceptual framework: 1) Word is first and foremost …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… pretending to be dead. The kraal (marked as Scene 1 on the map) where the first 17 miners were shot. At the time of the …
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018
An unusual, apparently contradictory set of personality traits combined to make Nelson Mandela the leader that he became. One of these was notorious…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
Michael Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from the prison diary that he kept…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY ON 16 NOVEMBER TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS INDENTURED LABOUR HERITAGEBy Brij Maharajhttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
This Twenty-third Conference of the South African Indian Congress meets at a time when the Indian people of South Africa have completed a hundred years of…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been achieved. Other than a small, enfranchised minority who owned land,…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education Chris Hani The most talked-about turning point in…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
The Society of Young Africa (SOYA) held its opening conference on 20th December 1951. Led by I. B. Tabata, SOYA was closely linked to the Non European Unity…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) conference in Johannesburg. Boesak…
Mission Stations - T-Z
Mission Stations - T TABA MOSEGU, Transvaal: Bn 1880 TABASE, Umtata, Cape: Mor 1873; MorG 1914 TABLE MOUNTAIN, Pietermaritzburg, Natal: ABCFM c1851 …
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
1868 Enoch Mgijima is born at Bulhoek, Eastern Cape, the son of Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima. 1907 19 April, Enoch Mgijima, who had already gained quite a…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Vietnam Institute of International Relations on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations, Hanoi
"Globalisation and related matters" Acting Director-General of the Institute of International Relations, Mr Nguyen Quang Chien Your Excellencies, Ministers…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
Sir, Sons and Daughters of Afrika! Mr. Speaker as already informed you that we had hoped that this inaugural Convention of the Africanists would be opened by…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
Contents: Dear Sir Roy. Emigrant Ship by Reginald Reynolds. The Senate Farce, Stanley Uys with a cartoon, David Marais. Revolution: Further Reflections, Joe…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
Minister of Safety and Security of the Republic of South Africa since 7 May 2002 and current Chairperson of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Charles…
ArticleEarly civilisations
In various parts of the world, different civilizations arose. Many of these major civilizations were located in fertile areas near large rivers. Most of these…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by the fact that people from these agencies do not want their stories…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
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 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, "The Opening…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
‘The South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New Nineveh, ‘has always been dominated by … mining, agriculture and domestic service.’ Van…
ANC NGC – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by Marius Strydom (News24 Voices), 12 October 2015
ABOUT two years ago, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba found himself facing an angry television audience at a recording of The Big Debate, the popular TV…