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BiographyJan Smiesing
This article was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people were auctioned for sale…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, killing approximately 200…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
On 20 June 2016, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the …
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for…
Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 29 October 1982, Volume 20
Transcript. Evidence from Edward Phillip Cain to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr…
Documents of the National Fundraising Workshop held on 14 - 20 March, 1986, at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, Tanzania
Report in booklet format of the first African National Congress National Fundraising Workshop held in March 1986, at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in…
Archive'Pravin is a rotten fruit from a rotten tree' No holds barred as Malema takes aim at Gordhan, 20 November 2018
The Blue Bulls of Northern Transvaal beat the Western Province 24-20 on Loftus and win the Currie Cup.
The Blue Bulls of Northern Transvaal beat the Western Province 24-20 on Loftus and win the Currie Cup.
Prince Karim leaves Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to become the Aga Kahn, the religious leader of 20 million
The SA Springbok rugby team beats the Wallabies 33-20 in the Mandela Cup match at Ellis Park, Johannesburg.
Statement on the Durban Riots, by the Working Committee of the ANC, signed by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 20, 1949
International Anti-Apartheid Year (21 March 1978 – 20 March 1979), proclaimed by the General Assembly in resolution 32/105B o
The SA rugby team wins the fourth test against New Zealand 20-17 in Johannesburg, thereby winning the series 3-1.
Discussions between the South African and American delegations on matters concerning Southern Africa: Vienna 19 and 20 May 1977
Jim Msebenzi Mahlangu, headman of Tweefontein, disappears. He was last seen in a white E20 combi at 152 Tweefontein.
BiographyConstance Greaves
Constance Helen Greaves was born in Brighton, Sussex, England 1882. She was renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
On Wednesday, August 19, 1981, a racist judge in Pretoria sentenced to death three ANC militants - Anthony Tsotsobe, David Moise and Johannes Shabangu - after…
Message from Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid on its 20th anniversary, 02 April 1983
We take the opportunity to extend to the Committee the most cordial fraternal greetings on occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Special Committee. The…
On the 20th anniversary of the General Assembly resolution on sanctions against South Africa, the United Nations presents award
A Venda schoolteacher, Mr Mkosi Mavhina, is found hanging from a tree 20km from his home. A post-mortem examination reveals tha
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the banquet in honour of president Soeharto of Indonesia Cape Town, 20 November 1997
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE LAUNCH OF THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING Soweto, 20 February 1997
Master of ceremonies; Minister of Education; Premier of Gauteng Province; MECs and members of legislatures; Representatives of education organisations; …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly 20 June 1996
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly 20 June 1996
Madame Speaker; Honourable Members; Ladies and Gentlemen. Tomorrow parliament rises for the winter recess. I am certain we will all agree that we have…