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ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… At this stage British army was divided into 3 main groups under General Sir Redvers Buller, who was the British …
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… student organisations and activists may have operated under dangerous and harsh conditions before 1990, politics …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… Guinea, West Africa. 1483 Diogo CÁ¢o, a navigator acting under the instruction of the Portuguese King John II, reaches …
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… the necessary documentation, pertaining to the conditions under which the immigrants travelled, that had to be …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… The Afrikaner National Party won the 1948 general election under the slogan apartheid, meaning separateness. The …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… universities. Many of the campaigns that were undertaken under its auspices were carried out by formations that …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… of Coloured school children were arrested and detained under the Riotous Assemblies Act in Johannesburg during a the …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… the freedom of their ox wagons and tents to living under the rule of the DElC. Their trek brought them into …
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… also be that the word Tshwane hints at a river that flows under black forests of hills and thick forests used to cover …
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… of the ANC was a product of the objective conditions under which the programme was being put into action. The use … have been wounded by police gunfire…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… would need to have been carried through and bedded down under P.W. Botha, before De Klerk came to power. De Klerk’s … any prospect of Sovietization. At the…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… entities – Generation, Transmission and Distribution – under Eskom Holdings. This will ensure that we isolate cost … that people need. The Housing…
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… a new bill has been passed known as the Terrorism Act, under which there is indefinite detention. The maximum … form of reprisal. The CHAIRMAN asked how long…
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
… all indigenous people were expelled across the Fish River under the command of Col. John Graham. The British army … the country. We galloped back to Meyer’s…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Following the January meeting of health ministers in London, a decision is taken that December 1 become World Aids Day
… The first World AIDS Day was observed on 1 December 1988 under the theme "Join the Worldwide Effort." …
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… the relations between the Mfengu and the Xhosa groups under Hinsta had become strained, and the Mfengu were feeling …
PlaceMjejane Game Reserve
… premier reserve bordering Kruger National Park. It falls under the juristriction of the Nkomazi Local Municipality. … premier reserve bordering Kruger…
PlacePilgrims Rest
… Rest was the location of a; Mint that was erected under emergency circumstances and the gold mined was used to …
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… two months after the police raid on Rivonia - and charged under the Suppression of Communism Act. Fischer was charged … necessary; (d) build the Party…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Rev Petrus Kalden. Under the leadership of Sheikh Yusuf, who was 68 years of age … who had been living there for years…
Opening address by President Jacob Zuma to the 2nd Biennial Summit on substance abuse, 15 March 2011, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban
… who suffer beatings and abuse from their partners who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The impact on … take stern action against tavern and club…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… Within our country, the meaning of a liberation struggle under arms, and the inevitability of its success has been … take to the political battlefield. The…
Address by President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 62nd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York
… 62nd Session of the General Assembly. We meet here today under the theme: 'Responding to Climate Change', during the … a fair, effective, flexible and…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… democratic revolution could only be carried through under the leadership of the working class, as part of the … of the national-democratic revolution in…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign
… at the mass meeting held at Curries Fountain, Durban, under the auspices of the Natal Indian Congress on Sunday: … of the of the meeting which was held at…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 4 - 19 by Carol Hermer
… as if you are fellow sufferers. The fact is we are all under one blanket. We are all non-white. In spite of this I'm not looking forward to the day when I…
PlaceGallery 101
… younger Haenggi retiring to Basel, Switzerland in 1993. Under the auspices of the Haenggi Foundation Inc., Fernand …
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… realised. Sustained work and progress is being recorded under leadership of our Premier, in the arena of rural …
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… was preserved as a National Heritage Site in 1975 under the direction of revered hotelier David Rawdon. In …