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EventFlorence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born
… Amendment Act. Nightingale also held strong opinions on women's rights. In her book Suggestions for Thought to … strongly for the removal of restrictions…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… educated black leaders become three million men and women growing up in an atmosphere of hatred and suspicion … at a European-Bantu conference of forty white…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… of my whole life. On that day I walked with seven other women at the head of a march of 20,000 women of all races to the Prime Minister of South Africa. Nor…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… Terrace, Main Rd, Sea Point. Those with a long family history in Cape Town may enjoy browsing Juta's annual Cape … Town was tossed back and forth between two…
EventThe Queen Mother of Lesotho, Mamohato Bereng Seeiso dies.
… praised for her work in uplifting the lives of Basotho women. The Queen Mother Mamohato Bereng Seeiso died on 6 …
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… an international case that highlighted the plight of women in Nigeria's northern Muslim states, which were given …
EventDesire Wilson is born
… Wilson is a former racing driver who is one of only five women to have competed in Formula One. In 1980 she won the …
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… of the Eastern Cape province. Stutterheim has a rich history that makes for fascinating reading. From the Xhosa … any African literature and fiction for…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… Visitors who wish to explore South Africa’s politics and history, may opt for a number of organised social, historic … tours. These tours take you back in…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… fact that indeed Africa has rid herself of the scourge of colonial and racist domination. What remains to be done is … both seditious and the height of…
President Julius Malema`s address to the KZN Provincial Congress, 22 May 2010
… played a very significant role in the struggles against colonial oppression and domination. The Bambatha rebellion that was fought proved to the colonial…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
… fact that indeed Africa has rid herself of the scourge of colonial and racist domination. What remains to be done is … both seditious and the height of…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in the Year of the Jameson Raid. It’s a House filled with History and the Personalities of the Original family … for 121 years is a miracle; the vicissitudes…
Document 28 - Letterfrom E. R. Roux to the Central Executive, Communist Party of South Africa, 25 September 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 28 … is a country in which exploitation is…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… Day, Freedom Day, Workers' Day, Youth Day or National Women's Day. Part reason for that may well be that we never … of representing ourselves and about…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… and of those seventy-eight, 60% were black and 48% were women; the number of postdoctoral fellows at Rhodes … and writing – publishing a book, The Forgotten…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
… African National Congress, we remember all those men and women from all walks of life, chiefs and commoners, educated … of various movements who at different…
Document 23 - The Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People at Kliptown, Johannesburg on 25 and 26 June 1955
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 23 … to work and to draw full unemployment…
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … were filled to overflowing. Hundreds of our countrymen and…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
… peace and social progress. Since the beginning of the colonial settlement of South Africa, successive white … government. We are entering a very delicate…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… supported the war effort, and hundreds of members, men and women, volunteered for the army. When the "blitz" started … factory where over a hundred workers…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… in 1996 was one of the major turning points in the history of our country. This chapter will seek to explain how … of who we are as South Africans. Our…
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… of Assisi Parish Church Celebrated its Bicentenary. The History of the first Anglican Church in Southern Africa, is … who sadly passed away on 12 July 2014,…
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… about FOSATU click here (a paper by Nicole Ulrich at Wits History Dept., titled "The Origins of FOSATU: The emergence … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999)…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… Location: back to this day in history search archive  An estimated 60,000 delegates and … at un.org [accessed: 13 August 2010] South African History Online…
PlacePolokwane
… collection of South African art, check out the early history of the city in the fascinating photographs on display … with a comprehensive collection of…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… to the issue of gender equality in Russia, claiming that “women are so free that they owned their own properties apart … of Basotho chieftainship and culture…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… parties and organisations in the rural areas, youth, women, students and others - black and white - decided to … more step forward in the inexorable…
ArticleMafika Gwala School Debate Contest 2020
… Topic One: Government should make South African History compulsory for all students in high school. Winner …
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… BROWNLEE, Charles. 1896. Reminiscences of Kafir Life and History. Lovedale: Lovedale Mission Press. BURCHELL, William … 20th of July 1896. Cape Town: WA…