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BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
The Battle of Square Hill
Participation as combatants in the First World War was reserved for men of “European descent”. [i] According to Article 7 of the South African Defence Force…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl WalkerQuestion: Do you favour votes for all women, irrespective of colourAnswer: As…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
A Brief Overview The People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was an armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), the major liberation…
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… white problem’ had rejected measures of amelioration. The 1906 Transvaal Indigency Commission argued against government …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The role played by the Black Consciousness Movement …
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… in 1898 (though the official year of his birth was always 1906), at a time when the existence of white people was but a …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, oppression, and…
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…
BiographyJames Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. …
ArticleA history of Soweto
The consequence of this promising wealth was that a great number of people left their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck…
PlaceThe Old Presidency Museum, Bloemfontein
Former Home of past Presidents featuring exhibits on their lives, plus art exhibits & performances. It is now a Military Museum, which can be visited between…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
“District Six is a blot which the government has cleaned up and will continue to clear up.”[i] - P.W Botha The memory of District Six, also known as…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
1952The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid Regime, which in the following years inspires the establishment…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
What was the nature of the civil society resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ruled by the National Party. The NP…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
- Prioritising armed struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and that’s at the end. -…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
SAYCO was regarded as the most significant youth organization to emerge during the 1980s. Initiated by COSAS, it focused on organizing the non-student youth,…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and re-engineer Pondoland and to co-opt their Chiefs. Violence…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
ArchiveNational Conference on the role of Blacks in the Anglo-Boer South African War - 1899 - 1902, 29 - 31 August 2000, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
ArchiveThe Doctor of District Six: Exploring the Private and Family History of Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman, City Councillor for District Six of Cape Town (1904-1940) by Eve Wong
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
The name of the Observatory refers to W.J. Hussey and a good friend of his, R.P. Lamont. Hussey and Lamont were University students in engineering in Michigan,…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
Shaka Zulu Legacy Essay questions on Shaka Zulu’s legacy will be asked as 8-mark questions where students have to use sources to answer the question. The…
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
… Britain and obtained B.A., LL.B. of Cambridge University (1906), graduating with distinction. He also passed Bar Final …