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EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
On 1 February 1963, a statement announcing the collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (now Malawi) was made. In 1959, before the…
PlaceHopkins Street 64-66, Parow
These two double-storey dwellings were erected in 1910 by George Thomas Hopkins. They have a number of fine Edwardian and Victorian architectural features…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
Contents Town & regional planning in Johannesburg Residential development in Johannesburg <a data-cke-saved-href="#Black residential development in…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
Potlako Leballo, the leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), confirmed in Maseru, Basutoland (now Lesotho), that Poqo and the PAC are one and the same…
ArchiveNative Laws Amendment Act, Act No 54 of 1952
The Act was to amend the Native Labour Regulation Act, 1911, the Natives Land Act, 1013, the Native Administration Act, 1927 and the Natives (Urban Areas)…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
Flora Nwapa - remembered today as Africa’s “literary foremother” - was born on [1]January 13, 1931 in Oguta, located in eastern Nigeria. She was the eldest of…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams is a 'Coloured'…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… sweating conditions, and then disappeared. Only after 1913 did the tailoring workers of Johannesburg succeed in …
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan Preface Chapter 1 Break down the walls Chapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 Chapter 3…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
The reaction of the outside world to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African regime,…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
… Old Cape Archives was built in two stages between 1906 and 1913 to serve as the Senate House and administrative offices …
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… battle of a Junker section which shot down the workers in 1913 - 14, and which can have no interest in the workers' …
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… APPEAL TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC ABOUT THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1913 by John Langalibalele Dube President, South African …
PlaceJewish Pioneers Memorial Synagogue, Raleigh Street, Port Elizabeth
The temple was designed by Orlando Middleton and erected by Jacob Kohler and Sons. The Port Elizabeth, Orthodox Hebrew Congregation was formed in 1903. It's…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Beyers Naude is born
Christiaan Frederik Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after C.F. Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his father,…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy…
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
On 24 May 1915, soon after it had been decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name of the newspaper, De Burger ("The Citizen"), was decided on. With…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and Boys' High School,[1][2] matriculating at the age of 17.[3] …
PlacePacaltsdorp
(prior to 1910)The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in 1813 as a station of the London Missionary Society (LMS). In 1818, its name was changed to…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
On 17 June 1992 the Joe Slovo Informal settlement in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
Due to the apartheid racial classification systems, many black artists were not allowed to further their education and attend formal learning facilities such…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Car bomb in South Africa kills 16, Macau Daily Times, undated
ArchiveInterview with Alexander Hepple
Oral interview, conducted in Johannesburg, with Alexander Hepple (1904-1983), politician and author, a member of the South African parliament for the white…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… legislated by the government since the Native Land Act of 1913 that restricted all Africans to thirteen percent of the …
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) was founded in October 1954 by 61 unions mainly representing White workers and mixed unions of Coloured and…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
Awards Archbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid,…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
Soweto is an urban settlement or 'Township' in South Africa, South West of Johannesburg, with a population of approximately 1.3 Million (2008, Joburg archive)…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
During the South African War the British military authorities imported a large number of horses from Argentina. Unfortunately their fodder was infested with…