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History of the Left in South Africa: Writings of Baruch Hirson by Baruch Hirson
France’s Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena. (BBC history)
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my election to the position of general secretary the union was purely fortuitous…
ArchiveSubbiah Moodley - "Voices Of Resistance" - University Of Durban Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project , 2002
UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN‑WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "VOICES OF RESISTANCE" INTERVIEWEE: SUBBIAH MOODLEY INTERVIEWER: VINO REDDY …
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
Four political detainees: Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border; Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid; Moosie Moolla,…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a report from a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic education made this…
Three decades of South African school history textbooks: historiographical influence, change, and continuity from the 1970s to the 1990s
Honours thesis in History submitted to the University of Cape Town by Lynda K. von den Steinen.
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
From the book: Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education After 1994 politicians, historians, educators and…
Oral History: Representing the Hidden, the Untold and the Veiled, edited by Christina Landman, (2013)
'The Future is in the Hands of the Workers': A History of FOSATU by Michelle Friedman
Platform for Peace: The history of the Joint Monitoring Commission from the South African perspective
ArchiveReport of the History Ministerial Task Team for the Department of Basic Education, February 2018
The Peoples's Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s by Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble
The role of capitalism in South African history: First attacks of colonialism on African society
APDUSA Views Issue No 70: The Most Cowardly Army in Modern History, 14 August 2003
War breaks out between the British and the Zulu. (Omer-Cooper: History of Southern Africa)
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
In the following article Patricia Storrar provides a brief history of the Harker graves in Plettenberg Bay. The piece was published in the 1977 edition of…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
Susan Booysen. 2011. The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Anthony Butler. 2012. The…
Herore Heroes - A Socio- Political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890 - 1923 by Jan-Bart Gewald
ArchiveA History of Zonnebloem College 1858 TO 1870 - A Study of Church and Society by Janet K.H. Hodgson
Designing Knowledge in Postcolonial Africa: A South African Abroad by Daniel Magaziner, Department of History, Yale University
Comments on the history of mass removals as the grand design of the policy of apartheid
Handwritten notes on the background and statistics of Black families being forcibly moved to Glenmore from Klipfontein and Kenton-on-Sea. Text of the notes is…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
Contents Introduction by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo (South African Communists speak 1915 - 1980) Section 1 Socialist and Internationalists: Introduction …
Prof. Izak Daniël Bosman (50), professor of history at the University of Pretoria, dies in Pretoria.
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
Unit 731. Sound familiar? Probably not. Until recently, I didn’t know what they were. Or what they did. Unit 731 was a Japanese military unit responsible for…