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BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… male poets: 'Woman, the winsome song of your voice / Sets Africa's walls vibrating, / Utterly shaming all the lads.' In … own mature self-characterization: …
ArchiveSlegs vir swartes: deportaties in Zuid-Afrika
White poster with brown lettering. Black and white photograph of four African women carrying building materials for shacks on their heads.
ArchiveSpeak: South African women march to freedom
Yellow poster with title in black letters. Black and white artwork of women marching. Words 'South African women march to freedom'. ANC Women's League.
ArchiveSouth African Sugar Asssociation 1974 - 1980
ArchiveHoosen Coovadia: an icon of South African health
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1984
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1983
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1982
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1981
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1980
ArchiveThe African Communist No 110, Third Quarter 1987
ArchiveAbout South African History Online Video
ArchiveUnban the African National Congress mass meeting
The United Democratic Front (UDF) successfully applied for a court order last night to go ahead with meetings to launch the "Unban the African National…
ArchiveThe Conference of the All-African Convention
Draft of an article by I B Tabata, published in the January 1959 issue of Ikhwezi Lomso, about the Conference of the All-African Convention in December 1958.
ArchiveManifesto of the South African Communist Part
Manifesto of the South African Communist Party: "Building workers' power for democratic change". Discussing new political realities, economic and social…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… claims direct involvement in aspects of Israeli and South Africa’s military cooperation, using this position in 1975 to … on 26 January 1983. Following his…
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
… were exposed, Vigne evaded arrest in 1964 and fled South Africa without a passport to Britain. Shortly afterwards his … spent 30 years in exile travelling to…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… under Portuguese rule, to escape poverty and came to South Africa with her sons. She settled near Pretoria where she … founding President of National…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it … Apartheid, which called for…
ArchiveCelebrating 50 years of South Africas Freedo
Black, red, yellow and white poster. COSATU logo. Artwork of people protesting. 50th Annniversary poster of the signing of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown,…
South African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… as follows: “It has never happened in the history of South Africa, Mr Speaker, that in one moment, by one fell swoop, …
EventSouth African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… as follows: “It has never happened in the history of South Africa, Mr Speaker, that in one moment, by one fell swoop, …
BiographyBen Baartman
… after the signing of the Nkomati Accord between South Africa and Mozambique, Baartman was arrested along with other …
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… known as the "Mother of the Black resistance" in South Africa. Image source She was first issued banning orders in … Every Step of the Way: The Journey to…
BiographyRichard Goldstone
… in 1989 and Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from July 1994. He has also served as prosecutor and … heading the board of the Human Rights…
BiographyPhila Portia Ndwandwe
… after Ndwandwe’s abduction they took her back to South Africa where she was interrogated and left naked for 10 days … the most important female figures in…
EventSouth African artist Michael Zondi is born
On 10 March 1926, Michael Zondi, a South African artist was born in Msinga in Greytown, Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission Trade…
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress
… decades of struggle by the ANC for liberation of South Africa. Anniversary marks the start of the Unity in Action …
BiographyFred Khumalo
… His journalistic work has been published in South Africa, Canada, and the United Kingdom (UK). He has achieved … title debut. Khumalo’s books tend to focus…
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… within a multi-cultural and economically divided South Africa. One of his best achievements was when he won the …