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PlaceSouth African College High School
Montebello is the location of the South African College Schools (SACS)' current campus, specifically the historic Montebello Estate in Newlands, Cape Town…
PlaceDe Vlugt, Garden Route
De Vlugt is a small Settlement located Halfway through the Prins Albert Pass. It is the only Pass in South Africa, where People live beside the Road and Trade,…
PlacePrincess Vlei Conservation Area
… http://www.princessvlei.org/history.html http://www.princessvlei.org/ …
PlaceKlein Karoo
The Klein Karoo (Little Karoo) is a spectacular 350 kilometre long Valley stretching from Montagu in the West, to Uniondale in the East, and is almost…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… the crown, marking the biggest turnout in the pageant's history. 16 December, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (69) dies … Pistorius is later arrested on a charge…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
… The importance of this particular moment in our history both for our country and the peoples of the world was … expected that the circumstances handed down…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… the call which sees the largest strike in South African history. June, Two car bomb attacks in Johannesburg by the MK … W (2007). Brick by Brick – An…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… receiving the ‘native chief’ at Elmira. Source: heritage-history.com The Portuguese did not have an easy time on the …
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… which reads: "The Law is an unprecedented one in the history of the world and it is repugnant to British justice …
ArchiveHow China broke the chain of infection by Vijay Prashad
… agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history.” In this report, we detail the measures taken by the …
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… of a new era in the kingship. “Never before in the history of the Zulu had their king been subject to the …
PlaceUlundi, Kwa-Zulu Natal, (also known as Mahlabathini)
Ulundi is also known as Mahlabathini. Ulundi Local Municipality is part of Zululand District Municipality. At one time Ulundi was the Capital of Zulu Kingdom,…
PlaceSongimvelo Game Reserve, an Early Archaeological Site
The Songimvelo Game Reserve is located South of Barberton in the South-Eastern part of the Mpumalanga Province on the South African-Swaziland Border. The…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… period in South African economic, political and social history began. At the parliamentary level the National Party … which were often left, unresolved until…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… most significant mass movements in modern South African history. It is only in the very recent past that the crucial …
Address at Conference on Southern Africa of the Socialist International and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament with the Frontline States, ANC and SWAPO by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 September 1984
… OAU. We believe this Conference will have a place in the history of the struggle for liberation in southern Africa, a …
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… by Anna Hutchinson and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 5 August 1991
… any longer or is it just being swept by the tides of history? AG Yes, well I will say that is correct. The …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… children were taught the poetry, plays, novels and history of the middle class. It was as whites had never been …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… in the final struggle, they rose like one man. Repeat that history today, and you will win. Do not repeat it, and you …
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 26 …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… ended in defeat within a week, it was a milestone in the history of the class struggle in South Africa. By their …
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… absorbed now, scribbling all the time, to our Congress history being unfolded, a unique record of a non-violent …
33. Restrictive legislation against Indians not warranted, 1897
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
Chapter 2
… backed by British Imperialism which had behind it a long history of colonial oppression and exploitation, and which …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 12
… Indian community that they are ignorant first of their own history and secondly of the European case. We live in an age; …
PlaceBonteheuwel
Bonteheuwel is a coloured Township situated North of Cape Town. It was created in the 1960's as a "Dumping Site" for coloured people, who had been forced to…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Conference on Fifty years since the 1973 Durban strikes Durban…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
When the Dutch first settled in the Cape in 1652, Governor van Riebeeck's brief included the construction of a fort and the setting out of gardens where…