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ArticleGrade 7 - Term 3: Colonisation of the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries
… year, as well as good water resources. They believed that all the land belonged to the community. They hunted using … skins. For thousands of years, hunter…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are encouraged to celebrate their cultural traditions in … beliefs, and traditions that make up the…
Article2016 in Review
… In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public … grow our archive of information and make it accessible to all. To the twenty…
BiographyDavid Livingstone
… was able to reconcile religion with science. He moved to Africa as a medical missionary in 1841, arriving in the Cape Colony (Cape Town, South Africa) on 15…
BiographyMithrasagaran “Murthie” Naidoo
… he was stripped naked and searched and then given back all of his clothes except for his belt, shoelaces and watch. …
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… Party (IFP) to destabilise the country and disrupt the Convention for Democratic South Africa (Codesa). The IFP and the government denied any … 04…
BiographyEllen Elmendorp
… and is a freelance documentary photographer based in South Africa.She has lived in Poland, Spain, Argentina, Finland, … projects in rural areas and townships…
PlaceLuthuli House Museum, KwaDukuza
… Luthuli were banned, confiscated or located outside South Africa, at the time of the Luthuli Museum’s inauguration the … of Chief Luthuli and the Liberation…
South African and World leaders
… South African leaders South Africa has a long and very rich history. Many different … South Africa, each with their own stories and background. All of these…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… ”” an uprising of students that inspired the oppressed all over the country. It was this spark that made it natural … period. On 31 January 1985 the State…
BiographyWalter Battiss
… English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. He first …
BiographyCecilia Makiwane
… of Cecilia Makiwane was erected by the nurses of South Africa at the Lovedale Hospital in 1977 and a hospital in … The first registered professional Black…
BiographyRosa Hope
… RA. She was then elected an ARE. In 1935 she visited South Africa, and her former teacher at the Slade, Professor John …
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
… Namibia and in 1954 did the same along the east coast of Africa. Although also a member of the New Group, she seems to …
BiographyLuli Callinicos
… Culture (1987), which won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, and A Place in the City: the Rand on the Eve of …
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
… acclaimed bandleader Dave Brubeck toured South Africa in 1976 and his Black bassist was denied entry to the …
BiographyFrancois Roux
… held at the Rhodes Gallery. In 1967, he moved to South Africa with his wife Margaret and sons Paul and Theunis. They …
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji
… the run up to the first democratic elections in South Africa, he actively supported the ANC’s campaign in the … A documentary History of African Politics in…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
… work. After the banning of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1950, she joined the staff of the Guardian …
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
… time was the bishop of the Methodist church of Southern Africa. … A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political…
BiographyGertrude Shope
… well, and in 1966 the ANC convinced her to leave South Africa and join her husband, Mark Shope , in exile. While in …
Brett Eloff
… residing and working principally in Johannesburg, South Africa. He began his career in the early nineties, covering South Africa’s transition to democracy…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial Conciliation … as embodied in the Freedom Charter and must…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… telephone were bugged with surveillance microphones and all calls were recorded, and on another occasion, the police … quit smoking. Not realising what was…
BiographyMary Malete
… was the president of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and the first president of the South African … Arbitration (CCMA), LAMOSA (Land Access…
South African Constitution 1996
… in the world, with a Bill of Rights second to none. South Africa's Constitution was drafted by an all-inclusive constitutive assembly, which had…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the … the Herero, Samuel Maharero ordered the…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… democracy and a just social order. Most important of all, he led by example. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was a first-born … in Edinburgh University in 1936. On his…
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… to serve them, and the Malay culture became part of South Africa own heritage. Some of the buildings in Cape Town are … Robben Island. The wines of the…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… Jubilee Anniversary of the founding of the Union of South Africa will be observed some time in the current year. Its … are already giving to it. It should be…