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The Re-appearing Shadow of 1918: Trends in the Historiography of the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
Why Did it happen? Religious and lay Explanations of the spanish flue epidemic of 1918 in South Africa
EventThe South African Police Services (SAPS) celebrates its 10th anniversary
The South African Police Services (SAPS) celebrated its 10th anniversary for providing a service to South African democracy on 27 January 2005. Since this…
South African forces in the British Army
The impact of the First World War on the Indian commercial class in Natal
Natal’s Indians, The Empire and the South African War, 1988-1902 Natal’s Indians
EventA teachers training college in South Africa opened in Wellington
A teacher training college in South Africa opened on 26 January 1896, in Wellington, in the Western Cape, South Africa. It was a settlement of the 1688 French…
The South African Native Labour Contingent, 1916-1918
Bearing witness to Apartheid’s birth by Tymon Smith, 19 January 2014
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool
The life, times, and memories of Joe Rassool. The book takes us back to the late 19th century Cape Colony to the early 1950s covering the family history or the…
Marikana, turning point in South African history by Peter Alexander
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya
Elsa the lioness was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self defence by George Adamson. Adamson was a wildlife conservationist based in…
EventPeter van der Merwe, South African cricketer, dies
Peter Laurence van der Merwe was born on 14 March 1937 in Paarl, Cape Town. He began playing first-class cricket for South African Universities as a left-side…
EventNigerian terrorist, Henry Okah is found guilty of masterminding two car bombs in Abuja by a South African Judge.
Henry Okah was the leader of a terrorist group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The group…
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was born in Bondo, Nyanza Province in Kenya in 1912. Odinga was a member of the second largest ethnic group in Kenya, the Luo. He…
Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith (4 January, 1974)
Gandhi and some contemporary African leaders from KwaZulu-Natal by Anil Nauriya (pdf)
Sketch map of Pondoland after 1910: Colonial administrative boundaries and place names
Sketch map of Pondoland after 1910: Colonial admisnistrative bounderies and place names
Sketch map of locations in the Lusikisiki district for the identification of place of residence of oral informants
Sketch map of Pondoland and the Transkeian Territories in the 1880s
Latest in the SAHO archive: 11 December, 2013 - 14 January, 2014
Hendrik Verwoerd’s response to the ‘Winds of Change’ speech
Made to the South Africa Parliament on 3 February 1960: The tendency in Africa for nations to become independent, and at the same time to do justice to all,…
”Wind of Change”: A speech made to the South Africa Parliament on 3 February 1960 by Harold Macmillan
Teaching About Nelson Mandela, Apartheid and the Struggle for Freedom For Elementary, Middle and High School students and beyond
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102nd Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 2014 Comrades and Compatriots The African…
EventJazz musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg
On 28 January 2013 Victor Mhleli Ntoni died of heart attack, after he was admitted to hospital on Thursday due to persistent cough. The famous jazz bass player…
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
On 19 January 1984, the Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre. The Stander gang was a group of three men led by…
Letter of John Langalibalele Dube, accepting position of president of South Sfrican Native National Congress, 2 February 1912
EventSir John Herschel, British astronomer, arrives in Cape Town
Sir John Frederick William Herschel was a British astronomer, mathematician, chemist and photographer. In 1833, he embarked on a journey to South Africa to…
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…