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EventSouth Africa is told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection
… 'From peaceful research to building the bomb' This day in history Archive: '16 September 1991 - SA signs Safeguards …
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… breaststroke event and this made her the only woman in the history of the Olympic games to do so. The achievement also …
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… settlers to leave the Cape Colony. Further reading list: A history of prison labour in South Africa Indenture: A new … Africa. Cape Town: NASOU. v. 9, p. 659…
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… Congo, DRC) in one of the largest migrations of people in history. Thousands of Hutus died of dysentery and cholera in …
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… he moved the entire press to Phoenix Settlement. The early history of Phoenix Settlement records three important …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
PlaceEmpangeni
… spots. Empangeni’s museum is worth a visit to track the history of early sugar pioneers. "The are also magnificent …
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… of the resolution, La Guma reiterated his call for the establishment of African majority rule which would lead to … of Basotho chieftainship and culture and…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, South African History Online, accessed February 16, 2016, … Azanian People’s Organization (AZAPO), South African…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… combination, form a mosaic of a large slab of a people's history of South Africa. The 200th anniversary of the birth … the lifespan being celebrated. I don't…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… immersed in the stream of time. As day succeeds day and history bears us onward over its cataracts of change, we … epochs. One may believe that a momentous…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign
… Indian Community today is facing the gravest crisis in the history of its existence in this country over the last 86 … take the lead in tilt formation of a…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… the land. For an unpacking of this mystification of the history of exploration. The First Expedition The Portuguese … Prehistory to the year 2000 ,…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… high school in the centre of Cape Town. Read more on the history of Cape Town . … Aartsma, H (2008). ‘ Early history of the Cape Colony, South Africa ’ from…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… had become the longest and most costly in South African history. After the strike, Anglo American Platinum, Amplats, …
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
ArticleSocialism
… committed to creating a more equal and just society. The history of socialism in South Africa is closely linked to the …
The Lessons of the Transition Era, Inequality and the Politics of Universal Health Care: Re-visiting the Proposals of the Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) and the Reconstruction and Development Programme by Robert Van Niekerk
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The paper offers a reflection on the macro-economic policy debates…
EventThe Missing Persons Task Team (MPTT) to Investigate Apartheid Missing Persons Cases
… Kronos 44 (2019), 18. R. Moosage, ‘Missing-ness, History and Apartheid-era disappearances: The figuring of …
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… The African Political Organisation has throughout its history been truly South African. Its sphere as regards … is necessary for me to make a little…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Economic Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… DFIs do not reproduce urban bias Commissions proposed the establishment of a State Bank to fast track development and … nothing about disabled people…
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly New York, 3 October 1994
… and secure the fundamental human rights of all people, its establishment and consolidation constituted a brazen … of the steps that we have taken already,…
PlaceCarletonville
… archaeological site is that it provides a record of social history and evidence for one kind of extreme strategic … as an additional source from which a more…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… people. On this road lies the continuation of the anti-colonial tradition of the Irish people who themselves fought … to be contributing to the elaboration…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… national intelligence capability will be the re-establishment of the National Security Council chaired by the … address the five most urgent tasks at this…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools … Thereafter, Tiro was briefly…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… the Jewish people of today, we have to be aware of the history of the Holocaust which so profoundly affected them. … racial or religious discrimination. What…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… Military History Journal Vol 10 No 1 - June 1995 (incorporating Museum … one has only to turn back the pages of early South African history, for since those…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… for liberation and majority rule. Mapungubwe [link to History classroom lesson] The Mapungubwe hill site, situated … early complex African culture, and…