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African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… leaders of the Indian and African Congresses, which since 1946 had been moving closer together, and the issuing of a … anti-Indianism, brought to a head…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
Document 20 - F. Carneson, “The Franchise Action Committee”, Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 20 - F. Carneson, "The Franchise Action…
PlaceTunisia
Tunisia is bounded by Algeria to the west and southwest, by Libya to the southeast, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the east and north. Used as a Roman, Arab,…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… no accident that it was India, at the United Nations in 1946 that first put on the global agenda the issue of the …
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… international trade union body for information about the 1946 African mineworkers' strike: "Appears natives were …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
In early 1966 John Lennon was reading about Christianity and when he was interviewed by Maureen Cleave for the London Evening Stadard on 4 March, said: …
ArchiveConformity and conflict: Afrikaner nationalist politics in South Africa
Thesis sumitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Oxford University. This thesis includes chapters on the…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
The increasing social unrest in South Africa that swept through the country in the 1980s, and the changing geopolitical circumstances on the international…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
The 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In a frenzy of desperate reaction, the government declared a series of back-to-back states of…
Article1994 Cabinet
Cabinet Members Ministry / Portfolio Minister / Incumbent Deputy Minister(s) President…
The New Generation
A significant challenge to state policy as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Conference held in 1979 at the University…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
Born: 1939, Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) In Summary: Poet, African National Congress Chief Representative to Sweden and United States of America,…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
Kathy Munro Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - On Saturday 22nd July, a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Blue Plaque was unveiled at Windybrow. 2017, saw the…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… when the miners organised themselves into armed commandos. 1946 12 August, African mine workers of the Witwatersrand … 7 December 2012)| South African…
"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
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
ArchiveInterview with Alexander Hepple
Oral interview, conducted in Johannesburg, with Alexander Hepple (1904-1983), politician and author, a member of the South African parliament for the white…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… urban population from 1,478,000 in 1911 to 4,300,000 in 1946. Urban migration in South Africa had a distinctly male … contribution to the development of the…
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
On 15 January 1986, General Justin Lekhanya, the Head of the Lesotho Army, ousted Lesotho prime minister Chief Leabua Jonathan in a military coup. Jonathan had…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
After the completion of World War One's Treaty of Versailles, German South West Africa was declared a mandate of the new international peace-keeping body, the…
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
Haile Selassi was born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to…
EventIOC extends South Africa’s ban from Olympic games
South Africa suffered heavily in the international sports arena as result of its apartheid policy. Prior to the Tokyo Olympic games in 1964, South Africa was…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
Last week fighter aircraft flying in formation to look like the figure "100" swooped down The Mall and over Buckingham Palace to mark the centenary of the…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
From the 17th to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Today it is a World Heritage Site and museum, a…
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
St Wendolins was situated about 14 km from Central Pinetown, on land owned by the Roman Catholic diocese of Mariannhill and individual African Plot Holders…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… Race for Sanctions: African Americans Against Apartheid, 1946-1994 , (Indiana University Press), pp.77-79. Pambazuka …
EventJapanese attack American Naval Forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Japanese planes struck just before 8AM on a Sunday morning. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
Race and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since the European colonisation. South Africa…