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ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
This article was written by Devon Wall and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Customary Law in South Africa: …
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s…
ArchivePlanning and assessment report of the NUSWEL to the 49th Congress of NUSAS, held at Rhodes, December, 1972
Report from the National Union of Students Welfare and Social Action Department to the 49th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students,…
YWCA Building, 178 Long Street, Cape Town
The building was restructured in 1903 by J Parker, of the architectural firm Forsythe & Parker, and was dedicated to the memory of Minnie and Maria Bam, the…
ArchiveUnban the ANC
Light brown poster with black lettering. Page from Pretoria News newspaper. Short piece of information on ANC. Commemoration of 75 years of the ANC, from 8…
ArchiveImperialist conspiracy in Africa
This book contains a collection of selected articles by I B Tabata, the president of the Unity Movement of South Africa. The articles range over a number of…
ArchiveBanning and intimidation: list of recommended tactics
SASO memorandum deals with proposed methods of infiltration into schools, religious bodies and other organisations; how to deal with infiltration into SASO and…
ArchiveSeparate development: the challenge of the Transkei
The nineteenth Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lectureThe Transkei became a semi-autonomous territory in Decmber 1963 and separate territorial development…
ArchiveBiography of Oupa John Hlomuka
Biography of Oupa John Hlomuka. Oupa John Hlomuka was born on 24 June 1953 in Evaton where he attended school until standard 8, he joined the Azanian people's…
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
Neil Aggett, Transvaal organiser for the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and Canning Workers Union, allegedly commits suicide while in…
EventJan Smuts is born
Jan Christian Smuts, who became South Africa's second Prime Minister in 1919, was born on the farm Bovenplaats near Riebeeck West in the Cape. Smuts had a…
EventANC leader, Oliver Tambo, dies after a long illness
On 24 April 1993, former President of the African National Congress (ANC),Oliver “OR” Tambo died in Johannesburg after a long battle with illness. Tambo was…
ArchiveEducation for liberation
Gold and black poster. Notice of a conference at Camden Town Hall, London, on Saturday 3rd April 1993. Organised by the Black Solidarity Committee of the Anti…
EventAlbert Nzula dies in Moscow
Albert Nzula, teacher, journalist and leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), died of pneumonia in Moscow, USSR. He left SA in 1931 to study in…
EventBritish secretary of war, Lord Kitchener drowns near Orkney Islands
Lord Kitchener, British secretary of war, was drowned in the spring of 1916 near the Orkney Islands. Kitchener had been sent to Russia by Prime Minister…
EventAnge-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic is born
Ange-Félix Patassé was the president of the Central African Republic (CAR) from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of CAR. The win…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
The International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work towards a…
EventColdest day in Pretoria
The Coldest day in Pretoria in recent history was on 12 June 1963. The temperatures plummeted to a minimum of -3, 6 and a maximum of 7, 5 degrees Centigrade…
EventThe United Party is formed
The United South African National Party, also known as the United Party, was officially formed after a merger between the National Party, under the leadership…
EventDieter and Ruth Gerhard are detained
The South African government announced at a special press conference that a senior South African naval officer, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and his second wife,…
EventHelen Joseph dies
South African political and human rights activist, Helen Beatrice May Joseph, died at the age of 87 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She came to SA in 1931 and,…
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…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Rustenberg
Construction of this church started in 1898 and completion of the building were delayed by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War. During the war it was used by…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
SOCIALISM HAD ITS BEGINNING as a propaganda force from the plinth of Van Riebeeck Statue, Adderley Street, Cape Town, when it stood at the bottom of Dock Road…
PlaceDie Stem Parsonage, Simonstown, Cape Town
This double-storeyed structure was erected as a Rectory and Vicarage, in 1815 by building contractor, Herman Schutte, and its verandah was added in 1820. The…
PlaceHorse Memorial, junction of Cape and Russell Roads, Port Elizabeth
The memorial, designed by Joseph Whitehead and cast in bronze by the Thames Dillon Works, in Surrey, was unveiled on 11 February 1905 by the mayor of Port…
PlaceRheingold Building, Market Street, Polokwane
The building was erected in about 1910 by H Moschke to house a number of commercial concerns. It is richly decorated with a number of Victorian architectural…
EventCommission on Native Education is appointed
The government appointed the Eiselen Commission whose terms of reference were to inquire into and to report on all aspects of native education. The…
ArchiveThe history of the Black mans struggle for l
This paper, possibly prepared for the inaugral conference of the Institute of Black Studies, Wilgespruit, 13-18 July 1976, traces the history of the political…
PlaceAnnlin, a Suburb of Pretoria
Suburb of Pretoria North, of the Wonderboom Reserve. Proclaimed in July 1953, it was first administered by Peri-Urban Health Board. In July 1964 it was…