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ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… Potgieter, D. J. (ed)(1974). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa Vol. 8, Cape Town: Nasou, p. 632. By the end of 1911 … Tanzania, as it. participated…
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
… answeres to new questions. Evidence of human settlement in Southern Africa Archaeological evidence shows that Southern Africa has one of the longest records…
ArchiveZambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
… liberation movements and the White minority governments in Southern Africa, and seeks to find out to what extent Zambia's commitment to the liberation of…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… in the Witwatersrand marks the radical transformation of Southern Africa and in particular the Witwatersrand. The region’s … of European and Asian immigrants…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Prehistory of Southern Africa Farming people did not inhabit the Greater … evidence, Sotho-Tswana and Nguni speakers moved south into southern Africa between…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… 1862 The first documented football matches in South Africa are played in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (between … Association wins the Rhodes Centenary…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… Cape in 1652 through the creation of the Union of South Africa and the period between the formation of the Union and … neighbours. This wave of displacement…
ArchiveSATUCCs Social Charter
… Social Charter of Fundamental Rights of Workers in Southern Africa 1992. Outline of origin of Charter. Green, red, black … List of demands of Charter. Green…
Article2016 in Review
… In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public … Department of Energy (DoE), Earthlife Africa (ELA) and the Southern African Faith…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the frontline states and Lesotho, Lisbon, 25 March 1983
… liberation movements, because there exists a situation in southern Africa which challenges everything that the world forces of … apartheid system. We meet…
Enuga S Reddy: Meeting with SWAPO in Dar Es Salaam -1969
… only way to end apartheid in Namibia was to expel South Africa from Namibia. South Africa was making propaganda in … The UN should help the national…
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… 1905 at the height of British penetration of Northern and Southern Rhodesia. The brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, the … The Zambezi River is a border separating…
EventSouth Africa is criticised for its foreign policy and deliberate interference in the SADC region
… The third Annual Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and … in Maseru. It was marked by further criticism…
The South African War
… more ). Regardless of who provoked the war, conflict in southern Africa would have been inevitable before the mining industry …
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… The newly appointed British High Commissioner for Southern Africa delivers to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his … to pursue the idea of creating a…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… The largest North-Sotho language group in South Africa are the Bapedi group, who arrived in the northern … Pedi were establishing a kingdom when white…
Apartheid - a Threat to Africa's Survival - Address under the Auspices of the Nigerian National Committee on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, 18 March 1971
… South Africa's Strategy of Creating Client States The strategic … of the South African regime to establish a so-called "Southern African Common Market". A…
EventGeorge Pauling, builder of railway lines in SA, dies
… a British born engineer who built railway lines in South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and other Southern and Central African countries. He came to South ……
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… Early History Few Southern African indigenous groups have so captured the … the South Ndebele migrated onto the central highveld of southern Africa some four…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own … Taking the form of a mass…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… of this country in the name of the working people of South Africa and Namibia, as well as their southern African co-fighters against apartheid. The ANC, … of…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… its militants and combatants inside and outside South Africa, on behalf of the oppressed millions of our country, … for East and Central Africa which later…
African History Books
… During the month of May we celebrate Africa Month as a way to commemorate the creation of the … a selection of books from our archive that intent to show…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… The government of South Africa disputed compensation claims from the government of … A week earlier, during the conference, " Apartheid and Southern Africa:…
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Photograph by John Robinson/South Photographs. Permission: Africa Media Online. Lindiwe Mabuza was born in 1939 in … Lindiwe Mabuza, interview by Tor…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… social and political concerns between India and South Africa. For the poets, it was slightly easier. There is a … fascinated by the chromatic links between…
PlaceOrigins Centre
… in learning about the rich and diverse history of Southern Africa . The Centre is a world-renowned facility that … museum showcases the history, lifeways,…
EventHenri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris
… Professor Henri Breuil came to South Africa as a part of a six year trip across Southern Africa with a mission to examine rock shelters and … art; studying…
PlaceKhomani Cultural Landscape
… The area in the Southern Kalahari , bordered in the East by Botswana and the … to ten . They include: the Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa, Maloti…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… On March 9, 1980, the racist Prime Minister of South Africa, P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement … march to victory, notwithstanding that…