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EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army'
The newly appointed British High Commissioner for Southern Africa delivers to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army, handover offenders. Frere who was…
ArticleTransport on land
… useful in areas that are not accessible to cars. South Africans using a donkey to travel to town. Image source …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… membership of the National Party accessible to all South Africans". The decision is subject to approval by the Party …
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… army, Rhodes’s colonising forces dispossessed millions of Africans of their land and created an apartheid state that … of who owned Zimbabwe’s land – white…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
July 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of the South African Communist Party (SACP): one of the first Marxist-Leninist parties on the continent, and among…
PlaceWakkerstroom
"Nestled in the rolling hills and tranquil Valleys of South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province, Wakkerstroom is a hidden gem waiting to be discovered. Known for its…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
… a Faculty of Agriculture , in Pietermaritzburg. Then in 1947, a Medical School for African, Indian and Coloured … a Faculty of Agriculture, in…
EventFirst celebration of International Women's Day
The first International Women's Day was launched in several European countries in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a million men and women…
EventCiskei is granted 'independence'
Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by the National…
EventSA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli's chance of Rectorship
It is announced that efforts by Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the South African Government for…
EventJazz Musician, Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee, dies
Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (54), South African jazz musician who played with Abdullah Ibrahim (also known as Dollar Brand) died during the night of 11 March…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… in the chasm that lay between the whites and the Africans. Consequently, the Cape Town Trotskyists, after … hands of a small number of white farmers…
EventFormer Bafana Bafana Legend John Moeti dies
The Former Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates legend who was known as "Dungi" was part of the Pirates team in 1995 that won the CAF Champions league title and…
The strangulation of activity
… the world reported the SADF invasion of Angola but South Africans were kept in the dark. The Publications Act In 1963 …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… Despite the 30 years of democracy since 1994, South Africans of different rainbow colours, languages, religions, …
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… Family and friends of Steve Madi Mokone, Fellow South Africans, We gather here today as a nation to pay our …
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
The foundational Years of the University of Pretoria were welcomed with great turmoil. In 1889, the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) proposed that a…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… in South Africa of 3½ million whites holding 15 million Africans in subjugation makes that part of Africa a big prize …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, …
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… employment needed to provide a better life for all South Africans. We are confident that our social partners will join …
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… teaching career. She received her teaching certificate in 1947 and worked as a teacher for twelve years. As she taught, … was often written with the intended…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… - in her eyes - was different than what feminism meant to Africans. (Nnaemeka 1995, 82). “The Western feminist …
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… not so much to promote learning as to prepare black South Africans for a socially engineered future as “hewers of wood …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… registered workers continued to push for equal wages for Africans in the industry. Democratic organisations As we have …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… separate living areas marked out for Indians, ‘coloureds’, Africans and whites. Indeed, in the early years some camps …
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… Despite the heavy expectations of you, you exceeded South Africans’ greatest dreams in providing vision, lack of …
EventBusiness Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the country's neck.
Business Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the country's neck. 'If you ask a black…
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
It is 20 years since the first Truth and Reconciliation hearing took place... The TRC was a unique political compromise forged during the years of…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
Allan Boesak graduated from the Belville Theological Seminary and worked as a pastor in Paarl between 1967 and 1970. After received his PhD from a university…
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack is assassinated.
The African National Congress (ANC) activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack was gunned down next to his home in Cape Town. Jack was a taxi conflict mediator in Cape Town…