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Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… South Africa. [ix] Close to a decade after his graduation from Fort Hare, Themba won a short story competition hosted … non-White Africans to segregated…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… In the case of the Transkeian model, headmen were drawn from subordinate chiefs and ward heads of pre-colonial and … to enact the Native Administration Act…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… Hugo Nellmapius is given a concession to construct a road from the goldfields to the foot of the Lebombo Mountains. … stands for future development. 1891 1…
History of the Labour Movements in South Africa
… of majority White workers who came to Southern Africa from across the globe in the search of fortunes and work in … story of the descendents of slaves,…
ArticleNational Newspapers and News Sites
… financial information. Financial Mail - Daily Information from the financial world. Cape Business News - Business News of the Western Cape. The Star - Daily…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… of micro-credit occurs where workers take out loans from the farm owners, locking workers in a cycle of debt. Farms are located many kilometres away from the…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… in the folk memory of Afrikaner Nationalism. However, far from being the peaceful and God-fearing process which many … state'. The men, women and children…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… explores many of the conventional themes one would expect from a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, from racial discrimination to injustice. However,…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… colonial expansion in SA, millions of people were uprooted from their ancestral lands, often with deliberate cruelty, … were ruthlessly crushed, forcibly…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… lugging her bewildered self and her young? Estranged from Autshumato and her fast-disappearing people, there … natural identity― The Company buried…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… interned in the Yeravda Prison soon after return to India from England. Released unconditionally by Government at night … Prison). Started at noon a…
ArticleIndia, Mughal Empire, 16-19th Century
… society The Moghuls were a powerful Muslim family who came from lands that are today part of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. … easily storm them. When the enemy…
National Land Committee
… of land reform and should not be considered in isolation from the three land reform programmes and rural development … must address the particular problems…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… in Braamfontein. Over the next three years Kotane moves from job to job but is dissatisfied by his low wages and the … and political editor of Umsebenzi…
BiographyAlbert Newall
… Homes Gallery in Cape Town in 1960. He received a grant from the Cape Tercentenary Foundation to produce a series of … Cape Town Art Fair | Past / Modern…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… the first Johannesburg Biennale titled Africus, running from 28 February – 30 April 1995, represented the lifting of … The nervous condition of welcoming an…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… rights in the area between the Caledon and Orange Rivers; from present day Wepener to Zastron, and the area north of … resources caused these larger groups…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… major projects. To achieve this, SAHO secured funding from the CATHSSETA to implement a Graduate Development … for a period of 6 months, and through this,…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… Eugène Casalis and Constant Gosselin,missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Society, to the region. Casalis … by South Africa, which demands the expulsion…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
… movement. LESTER: We all feel a repugnance for violence from whatever source, but it is especially unhelpful, in … were aroused. Councillors were called upon…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… viewed it as a puppet for the government. But key figures from the SAIO defected to the National Indian Council, which … in Newlands, Cape Town. The council…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… that helped dismantle apartheid by the late 1980s. From the beginning of the 20 th century Black workers in … ANC activists were banned, and by 1965 Sactu…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… gold and other commodities like salt across the Sahara from West Africa , while spices had been shipped from India and the Far East through Muslim and…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… leaves for England to study law. He was excommunicated from the Modh Vania caste for crossing the “black water”. 1891 August, M.K. Gandhi returns from…
African Art Centre
… Design, and print making. Today the centre operates from the premises in Florida Road, Durban . It is the longest … Reuben Ndwandwe, among the many others…
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
… to the Constitution and the law, to transform our society from its unjust past and to deliver the fundamental rights in … is one such national institution,…
ArticleEarly civilisations
… often believed and accepted cruel dictators as messengers from their Gods and followed their orders without question. … Also note, there may be minor changes…
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… a federation of Black women after Fatima Meer returned from the USA, where Black American women were moved by the … faced by Black South African women. The…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… established. 1889 Cecil Rhodes already extremely wealthy from diamond mining, set his ambitions north of the Limpopo … to look for migrant workers outside…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… From voyages of trade and discovery to colonisation: This … laws. These settlers often excluded indigenous inhabitants from their society or killed many of…