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Letter from Max Gordon 6 to Fanny Klenerman 7, 21 December 1940
Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
ArticleJames Sofasonke Mpanza and Johannesburg’s squatter movement 1938 to 1947
Documents and books relating to Indian history in South Africa
EventTelkom to roll
The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to fight AIDS, which has infected…
ArchiveA call to conference
Call by the Non-European Unity Movement to liberation organisations to send delegates to a conference to discuss oppression in South Africa.
ArchiveCongress vs solidarity: to vote or not to vote
Silkscreened; red and black; Congress vs solidarity : To vote or not to vote? : University forum debate
Letter to Farzanah
Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the…
ArchiveLetter from Desmond Tutu to P W Botha A letter to Pretoria
Open letter from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to PW Botha, excerpted as "A letter to Pretoria" in a briefing paper by the Amercian Committee on Africa, 1989.
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
June 16 marks the commemoration of National Youth Day in South Africa. This is the day the country reflects on the massacre of school children during the…
Britain is to send more troops to Egypt to help quell nationalistic unrest.
ArchiveNo to Removals
A2 red and black on white litho; collage with soldier, people being removed; text: No to Removals, yes to an undivided South Africa
ArchiveFree to learn
Multicoloured poster. Global Campaign for Education (SA) poster. Global Action Week - 22-28 April 2002. List of GCE activities that week. Demands to abolish…
Challenges to capitalism; Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Communist state
This information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new curriculum but…
ArchiveA call to conscience addressed to Catholics by their Bishops
Address by Bishops to Catholics on social and interracial justice, moral courage and dignity in human relationships within the South African context of racial…
ArchiveCall to Whites
Offset litho; red on white; Call to Whites; You, the UDF, and the future
ArchiveWhere to register?
SACBC 1995 no. 5 poster. Salmon coloured background with black lettering. Lists of places to register with coloured artwork of different places.
How to vote
SACBC poster. Green background with black lettering. Small multicoloured illustrations. Voter education on how to vote in Transitional Local Council areas…
ArchiveTime to act
A perfomance on struggle in South Africa and the need for actionA2 silkscreened poster produced by Action Workshop at CAP, Cape Town, black, red and yellow;…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Unsettling whites objective of MK bombing campaign: TRC told, SAPA, 13 May 1998
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
On 14 March, 1994, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) management committee decided on a new administration for Bophuthatswana. The decision followed a…
ArticleHow to undertake research?
South African History Online (SAHO) believes in empowering learners, educators, researchers, and independent web users with the tools they need to investigate…
ArchiveUnions to form council to cover SAB factories
ArchiveTruckers strike to win rights to national negotiations
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him…
BiographyPeter Sexford Magubane
Peter Sexford Magubane was born on January 18, 1932 in Vrededorp (now Pageview) Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is one of South Africa’s most…
Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. M.T. Steyn, too weak to leave his tent, resigns because of poor health and Gen. C.R. de Wet is appointe
South African Politics Since 1994 by Tom Lodge
ArchiveTop level talks in Portugal: divide and rule
ArchiveDie grondvet se ek het n reg tot waardigheid
Red, black and white poster. Treatment Action Campaign logo. Artwork of a pregnant logo. Information on aids.