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EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… On this day in history, Jan Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, …
EventSelassie becomes emperor
… to read about his burial Click here to read more about the history of Ethiopia …
EventDevastating storm hits Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape
… On this day in history, at least 22 people were killed and 4000 left …
EventPresident Mandela reshuffles Cabinet Ministers
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
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. …
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… come out with an Indian edition of Comrade Lerumo's book - History of the Communist Party of South Africa; Fifty … doubt, will be read with deep interest in…
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…
EventThe first Gay Marriage in South Africa
… On this day in South African history, Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls became the first same …
Umsebenzi
… African communists are included as are articles on Party history, trade unionism and workers' rights. Resistance …
ArchiveThe Government of divided communities
… economic development. The lecture focuses on the political history in communities as well as the variedness in which …
Culture in the New South Africa by Robert Kriger and Abebe Zegeye
… volume is a fist step in rewriting the cultural history of the country, towards a more unified Cultural and …
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… Nations and Apartheid Chronology. Sources: South African History Online …
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
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…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
… had as their aim the overthrow of oppressive – most often colonial – regimes. But these movements cannot and have not …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… in April 1994. There is little doubt that coming from a history of a racially divided society, people voted for their …
ArticleMapungubwe
… the academic value of the site and contacted the head history department at the University of Pretoria, Professor …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… for this topic Ancient : Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. Bureaucracy : … Online South African History Online (2014),…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… its name to the South African Rugby Union (SARU). The history of the Rugby World Cup dates back to the 1980s with …
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… north eastern end of the vast complex. (Bailey's African History Archives) A number of student leaders at the …
ArticleAfrapix
… Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary …
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… to influence his propagandistic theories at schools he had history books rewritten to put him in favourable light and to …
PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
… of South Africa's deciduous fruit . The Town is rich in History with many Historical Buildings to tell its story, … The farm holds a significant family,…
Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
… the Kings and us commoners so that we could better fight a colonial system which was treating the indigenous people of … "unity" or undermines it is the…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah
… social opponents. Click here to read our past This week In History's entry on another assassination attempt on Nkrumah. …
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… For an excellent background history of this complaint by E. S. Reddy, and how it was …
EventChristian Institute declared an affected organisation
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …