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PlaceAmathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… towns that line the valleys of an area not only rich in history but in incredible scenery too. This is frontier … mountains, stop on route to take in some of…
EventDF Malan mentions the term 'Apartheid' in Parliament for the first time
… This day in history marks the first time the term Apartheid was mentioned …
ArchiveWorking in the apartheid city: worker struggles in Durban, 1959-1979
… for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal, Durban, 1994. According to the …
ArchiveWestern Cape Region - Regional Conference: Problems and challenges of the Western Cape
… Cape Region Conference, 29 and 30 September, 1990. Covers history of the ANC in the Western Cape Region. Talks about …
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… our Defiance Campaign chronology and our feature on the History of Indians in South Africa for more. … SAHO, Manilal Gandhi , from South African History…
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… Syd Cywes, was the first of its kind in the medical history of South Africa. Since that first operation more …
The First Slaves at the Cape
… bring a whole cargo of slaves to the Cape, beginning the history of the slave trade at the Cape , these ill-fated … but it had also taken the first steps in…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… extend to you is to hasten the defeat of apartheid and the establishment of a nonracial, democratic and united South …
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of a military camp on the present premises of …
PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of a military camp on the present premises of …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… 11 February, Governor Leutwein, who had been away from the colonial territory to fight Bondelswarts in the south, …
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… collecting the musical compositions of India’s anti-colonial and working-class music from a tradition known as …
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… king. Meanwhile the organisation sent long appeals to the Colonial Secretary against the giving of passes to women. …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , who has died , was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a … with total political and economic power – the…
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
Click on image to enlarge The mill was probably erected during the early 20th century. Its water wheel and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from …
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… elections to a constituent assembly. Source: South African History Online …
EventIEC extends election dates
… areas continued up to 29 April. References: South African History Online …
ArchiveFifty seven years of NUSAS - Have we learned our lessons?
… Critical overview of history of the National Union of South African Students in …
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… like. United Democratic Front logo. Source: South African History Online In 1983, the COSAS welcomed the formation of … it has been utterly scrapped, dumped…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… Nationalism became a very important force in world history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before … decisions made at this conference profoundly…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the … unite different groups” (Seekings, Jeremy, The…
Statement at the 25th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 24 – 26 July 1989
… some miracle, continue to drift against the tide of human history. It can never be that dawn breaks everywhere, except … always sought peaceful ways of…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… Africa's black miners was a small event - so small that history records very little about it, save that the … clerk, and also a veteran ANC and Communist…
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 … aims of the ANC and the liberals…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinner, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town: 8 April 2005.
… Castillo, "Decaying Manuscripts Reveal Africa's Literate History", www.chronicle.com , 6 Sept, 2002, p.3 of 4) Such is … and our understanding and…
EventThomas Kgope is born
… Johannesburg Art Gallery, p. 100. South Africa History Online,Thomas Kgope,from SAHO,[online],Available at …
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventFirst public service of the Church of England in South Africa
… Human & Rousseau. http://www.cesa.org.za/pages/detailed_history_of_cesa.htm …
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… up during one of the toughest and bleakest phases in the history of South Africa. The country was experiencing yet … Boddy-Evans, A. ‘This Day in African…