SAHO global search
1,186 records
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, on what white Afrikaner leaders and black South Africans gained for their … a former Boer general, this was no easy…
42nd African National Congress Conference: Resolutions, 20 December, 1953
… training and employment opportunities for Africans. 2. Accord proper treatment and service to African customers. 3. …
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… forerunner of the African National Congress. Like the Afrikaner Bond it came into being as the result of the … we are at odds about a definition. The pure…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… president from 1986, noted that: After the Lusaka Accord [signed on 7 September 1974, whereby Portugal … SACP Activists: the SACP in Mozambique until the…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… Heights”) to commemorate The Great Trek in a flurry of Afrikaner Nationalism, which accompanied the Great Trek … the end of the National Party and their…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… The anglicisation of the British colonies, the growth of Afrikaner identity in the interior, and the rise of African … The British attempt to conquer and…
EventAWB leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, is convicted of attempted murder and assault
… On 23 April 1997, Eugene TerreBlanche, leader of the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging (AWB) was convicted on two …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… who feared to lose its English identity in a predominantly Afrikaner state, favoured a federation. The Convention, on …
The Causes of the Boer War by Prof. Marius Swart
… British imperial monetary interests and an awakening Afrikaner nationalism. …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… Minute which took place in August 1990 and the D.F. Malan Accord which occurred in February 1991. A consensus was taken … political reform through…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… FN is returning to contest 2019’s polls. Prominent Afrikaner activist Dan Roodt appears to have exited the … Daniel Lotter now at the helm. The FN wants a…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… their place alongside the country’s politically dominant Afrikaner population. Some Jews also empathised with South … because they saw parallels between Nazi…
ArticleTswana
… as a Crown colony. By the late nineteenth century, Afrikaner and British officials had seized almost all Tswana territory, dividing it among the Cape…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… how Afrikaans women formed 'wives clubs' to support the Afrikaner cause of 'Broederbond'. Callinicos writes that as … the "transmitters of the mother tongue…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… to be playful and satirical especially toward the Afrikaner sense of decorum. While he is not considered as …
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… 16 remained a rallying point for the development of Afrikaner nationalism, culture and identity. However, in 1952 …
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… his own News paper Land en Volk meaning Land and (the Afrikaner) people. Marais later went to London with the …
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
… Slabbert when he resigned in 1986. Born in Pretoria to an Afrikaner family, van Zyl Slabbert grew up in …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… to consolidate and entrench its rule. The British and Afrikaner landowners and industrialists set in motion a …
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… would be the most efficient way to protect each race. The Afrikaner Nationalism of Malan’s National Party posited that … subjects were taught in Afrikaans –…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… identity into British and Dutch (or Boer, later to become Afrikaner). The division in white identity formation that … from the Cape Colony. This movement has…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… Uganda, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola, and DRC sign peace accord in Lusaka, Zambia August 1999: MLC and RDC rebels sign Lusaka accord November 30, 1999 UN…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… Those opposed to reforms were the Conservative Party (CP), Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) and the Reformed National …
EventSir Christoffel Joseph Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid
… with political matters, and was representative of the Afrikaner Bond. The newspaper also merged with Ons Land (Our …
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… of Colonel J.C.C. Laas. The OB was evidence of the surging Afrikaner Nationalism in the centenary year of the Great trek …
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… the Herstigte National Party (HNP) and the right wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) in their turn refused to …
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… and their apartheid overlords was imminent. A group of Afrikaner right-wingers, in a bid to keep Mangope at the …
Foreword - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… to address, through a process of negotiations, the idea of Afrikaner self-determination, including the concept of a …
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… children were owned by the father and became part of the Afrikaner community. The practice was so common that in 1685, … there was also an element of Indian…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… paid tribute to the services I had rendered to the poor Afrikaner working women. There was nothing of the … whoever won the allegiance of the tens of…