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Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial by Laurence Piper, March 2014
Rhodesia’s first Black cabinet ministers are sworn into office. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria News, 23 April.
Rhodesia’s first Black cabinet ministers are sworn into office. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria News, 23 April.
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
The battle - and the greater narrative of Ethiopia’s independence – is a powerful symbol of African resistance to European imperialism. “Ethiopianism” has…
Pan-African History: Political figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 by Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood
A Military History of South Africa From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid by Timothy J. Stapleton
The Place of India in South African History: Academic Scholarship, Past, Present and Future by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
Mathews Motshwareteu was born on 2 November 1958 in Soweto, Johannesburg. His talent for athletics became apparent in his primary school years, which he spent…
The House of Phalo: A History of the Xhosa People in the Days of Their Independence By Jeffrey B. Peires
South African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa’s first elected
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in…
ArchiveNotes on the History of Parliamentary Franchise in Southern Africa: Fact Paper presented by Western Cape Region at the Black Sash National Conference 1975
Notes on the History of Parliamentary Franchise in Southern Africa- Fact Paper presented by Western Cape Region at the Black Sash National Conference on 12…
Caprivi an African Flashpoint - an Illustrated History of Namibia's Tropical Region where four Counties Meet by Rainer D.K. Bruchmann
A Brief History of Factionalism and New Party Formation and Decline in South Africa by Ivor Sarakinsky and Ebrahim Fakir
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
The government and the ANC have held discussions at the Presidency, Pretoria, today 6 August 1990. 1. The Government and the ANC have again committed…
Dorothea (Anne) Fairbridge, author of books on SA history, including on Lady Anne Barnard, is born in Cape Town.
Stephanus Schoeman, colourful figure in Transvaal history and commander-in-chief of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, is born ne
The ‘White supremacist’ Rhodesian Front party names Ian Douglas Smith prime minister of Rhodesia. (2004). Today in History, Pre
EventSouth African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa’s first elected woman president in post-war elections
South African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa's first elected woman president in…
The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900-1963 (African Studies) by Paul Mosley
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
In 1976, the United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern Africa, wary that events there might escalate into a new Cold War conflict fought along…