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81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The People's Candidates Party … in the Lenasia Management Committee between…
EventAnna Neethling Pohl, South African actress and author, is born
… Anna Neethling Pohl the South African actress and author was born in Graaf Reinet in the Eastern Cape on 24 December 1906. At the age of five she joined…
PlaceCape Town Civic Centre and the CBD of Cape Town
… in 1978. This building also houses the council chambers and the offices of the mayor of Cape Town . Cape Town CBD … Centre) is the central business district…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they seem engaged in revolutionising themselves and things, in creating something that has…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… Hertzog and Pirow’ Bills were putting the Africans more and more into a state of slavery’. Gumede, April 1930. … All over the country protest meetings were…
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… Thelma Gutsche a South African scholar, historian and film critic dies in the Cape. Thelma Gutsche was born to Dr and Mrs J Gutsche in Somerset West in the…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. Saviours has stood on its present Site since 1854…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… Third International paid scant attention to the national and colonial struggle (under which the South African question … of the Comintern. Indeed one of the…
EventThe existing ban on marriages between White and Black people (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) is extended to White and Coloured people
… Bill was adopted - despite opposition from the United and Progressive Parties. This amendment furthered the existing ban on marriages between White and Black…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents … at the age of two. He was then taken care…
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
… processes leading to the " Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa " can be … was decolonisation, the end of Apartheid,…
EventAngola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
… On 7 August 1988; Angola, Cuba and South Africa agreed to a formal ceasefire. Under the terms of the ceasefire and later treaty, Cuba was to withdraw its…
ArchiveMarxism and history: twenty years of South African Marxist studies
… 1988. This thesis attempts to contextualize the emergence and development of South African Marxist studies in terms of political and economic changes in…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute…
Freedom and state security in the South African plural society
… This paper tries to iron out the concerns of the government and its citizens regarding security and freedom with respect to individual freedom, been … in a…
Lekota and George resign ahead of disciplinary hearings, 3 November 2008
… of former ANC National Chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota and former Amathole regional chairperson Mluleki George were … the ANC`s National Disciplinary Committee …
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… From the 1920s to the 1940s J.C. Smuts , J.B.M. Hertzog and D.F. Malan were the most prominent White politicians in South Africa. In 1933 Hertzog and Smuts…
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
… He was granted an Ethiopian passport by Haile Selassie , and classified as a journalist, under the name David … National Congress (ANC). In his speech, he…
EventEgyptian author, and trade unionist, Gamal al-Banna is born
… Muslim Brotherhood, Gamal al-Banna was a liberal scholar and a critic of the Muslim traditional narrative. Al-Banna … controversial views often caused…
ArchiveFreedom and state security in the South African plural society
… This paper tries to iron out the concerns of the government and its citizens regarding security and freedom with respect to individual freedom, been … in a…
Part 3: Ahmed Kathrada and Arun Gandhi - Gandhi Satyagraha Tour SA
… Provenance and Attribution This recording was produced and first published by Catalyst House . Video shoot and edit by Lynnea Bylund . Recorded on 9 June…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… South African Defence Force Minister, General Magnus Malan and 19 other former senior military officers were charged in the Durban Magistrates' Court with…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… township KwaThema, Gauteng. She had been raped, robbed and murdered. Her rape was a reaction to her sexual … woman. Simelane had had a successful soccer…
ArchiveTo the people of Natal: race riots and the nation
… of concentrating on the relationship between the African and Indian sections of the Non-Europeans, and how the Unity Movement sees the solution to the…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… have to be done to replace it. The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (Act 28 of 1946) was introduced on 15 March 1946 and passed in June 1946…
ArchiveSouth African Institute of Race Relations: key facts and trends
… Facts and figures on South Africa regarding its population, housing and transport, employment, labour, education, health and welfare, economy and politics…
ArchiveThe socio-political and economic crisis in the apartheid system
… ANC paper on the socio-political and economic crisis in the apartheid system, prepared for the regional and national preparatory committees. Covers the enemy…
ArchiveThousands of women and children are involved in this struggle
… Grey, orange, yellow, black and white poster. Photographs and short histories of women who are in prison or have disappeared. Artwork of map of South and…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… attended the Huguenot Memorial School in the Cape Province and later the Normaal College in Cape Town where he studied … the Northern provinces such as the…
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
… July 1879, the first cable connection between South Africa and Europe, via Aden, was launched. It was laid by the … for laying the first undersea cable…