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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The South African War
… more ). Regardless of who provoked the war, conflict in southern Africa would have been inevitable before the mining industry …
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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Biography 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…
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…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… fire on a rioting crowd on the outskirts of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). In 1965 whites in Southern Rhodesia, led by Ian Smith,…