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ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… of states are standard features in sub-Saharan. [ix] The African continent has been observed as possessing special … and political instability and corruption…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… hard work and foresight by the ANC. The formation of the African National Congress was an act of great foresight. The … the same measure, the adoption of the…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… writing career later on. By the time she was 19, in 1955, Imalayen was the first Algerian woman admitted to the … was a major voice of postcolonial thought…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… what we mapped out in general terms at Kliptown in 1955, what we planned and theorised about in the difficult … a cross-pollination of ideas which will…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… is defaced and painted with colors of the old South African flag used by the Apartheid government. 2015 26 March, … bottom part of the statue of Loius Botha,…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been … legislation and force, or the threat of such. Areas of African …
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… industry, mining. This task first fell to the South African Party that prevailed in the Union’s first general … Some of these socialist parties merged to…
Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The Conquest of Power in South Africa [1963]
… fact that the most revolutionary sections of South African society are to be found among those who are commonly … called the Non-Whites. The most exploited…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… members of the judiciary, The Vice President of the Pan African Parliament, HE Mr Roger Nkondo Dang, The Speaker of … from all walks of life adopted the…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… grave of John Dube, the first President of the ANC, the African patriot that had helped found the organisation in … those who in 1914 rebelled against Louis…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 12 February 2015
… members of the judiciary, The Vice President of the Pan African Parliament, HE Mr Roger Nkondo Dang, The Speaker of … from all walks of life adopted the…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… bodies. In 1902 Coloureds in Cape Town formed the African People's Organisation to represent the interests of … assumed new urgency with the formation of the…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… 1976 uprisings and their aftermath, ex-Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) members in the Western Cape began … rent boycotts and also defended…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… Abstract : Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a South African jazz pianist and alto saxophonist from Port … of his career developing his mixed sound of roots South…
ArticleMcGill University Project
… completed an exciting online collaboration with South African History Online (SAHO). Over the course of two months, … their work. The student essays formed…
ArticleAfricanist News and Views (1968-1973)
… to Africanist News and Views, was to galvanise the African people into a revolutionary force with a clearly defined political philosophy of an African…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… The Empire of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the … territory, rendering it one of the…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… when the other black led political forces such as the African National Congress were moribund. 1881 December, The … at a De Beers Mine resulting in the death…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African resistance to the racially based system rapidly … industrialisation and a substantial…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… contains HIV, which is the virus that causes AIDS. 1970s African doctors see a rise in opportunistic infections and … official case of AIDS in South Africa…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… or Bantustan), amid tense negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government under President FW de Klerk. Prior to a ……
References and links: Local History
… [Accessed: 9 January 2015]. Online links South African History Online, (2014), “Constructing heritage and heritage resources” from South African History…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899 to 1902. The women, Florence Phillips … They were resident in Britain during the…
Tools and weapons from iron and copper
… of labour: gender-based activity: men Work within the African societies was divided according to gender. The men … crop cultivation, which was the women’s…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… was put under strict sanctions. The Organisation of African Unity and the Southern Africa Development Community …
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… period of great political upheaval in the country, as the African National Congress (ANC) launched its military wing – …
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by the … as well as to recognize any potential threats to the South…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… Klug inserted himself into the conflict of South African apartheid and aided in the transition of the … Act, segregation, Student Representative Council,…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… Africans followed suit. In 1889 the Whites-only South African Rugby Board was founded. Eight years later the South African Coloured Rugby Football Board was…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… for Life And Times Of Michael K, about a young South African man trying to shield his mother from the country's … racist and colonial prejudices in Afrikaans…