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BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman, a colonial administrator and politician who went from being a radical, almost socialist liberal to an arch…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the presidential desk in Washington Image Source Essay Question: To what extent did Roosevelt’s New Deal succeed in mitigating…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
Ron Press, This is Ron Press' story of his part in the struggle against apartheid. Forced into exile in the early 'sixties, Ron Press contributed to the…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
After the Anglo-Boer War, there were six British colonies in South Africa. They were all separate, with their own governments. In 1910 four of the colonies…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
European ‘Discovery’ of the Americas Where and what is America? 'America' has more than one meaning. It is usually taken to mean the United States of America…
ArticleThe Transkei
Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei, where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke into…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
Not much of District 6 was left when the apartheid regime forced the residents out onto the grassless Cape Flats and razed their homes. What remained,…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
[This statement was to have been made to the court before the passing of sentence, after which I had been found guilty of burning my pass, guilty of disobeying…
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PlacePella
In the mid-1880s a huge Cathedral was built in the Bushmanland desert oasis of Pella by French Missionaries who at first had absolutely no idea what they were…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
Different sections of the South African community reacted to the formation of the republic in different ways. The fact that the republic had now been achieved…
France in 1789
What is revolution? Revolution literally means a turnaround or a complete somersault. It is used to describe periods or events that bring about dramatic…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
Introduction The Tricameral Parliament, a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
"South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last weekend, will…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
From voyages of trade and discovery to colonisation: This section of the grade 10 curriculum was developed in 2009. While much of the content is still…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
During the 1920s, the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) - which changed its name to the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923 - did not…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
In the following years, the African National Congress (ANC) leadership evolved to be more inclined to action than passive deputation, but very little was…
ArchiveObituary for Andrew Verster
Andrew Verster died peacefully in his bed on Sunday 16th February. It was the kind if death he would have wished for. No fuss, no drama – an end to a life…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
On 24 December 1651, accompanied by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck had signed…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Reasons: DEIC permanent settlement at the Cape 1652 The DEIC (Dutch East India Company) in the Netherlands was set up in 1602 to trade. In 1647, the Haerlem,…
The turn to armed struggle
For several years, different liberation organisations debated engaging in armed struggle against the Apartheid state. Following the Sharpeville Massacre, the…
Learning about history through writing
We are going to investigate an event using written SOURCES. Can you try to guess which event we are going to look at? Here are the clues:1. It was a sport…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages in Europe, a feudal society Glossary Feudal Society: The stage of society that preceded capitalism, during which a small elite (the…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
In 1979 the African National Congress launched an attempt to receive international recognition as the “sole legitimate representative of the people of South…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
I was a fresh-faced 16-year-old when I started my studies in 1950 at the University of Cape Town. In the long summer holiday between school and university I…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
Written documents are very important sources of history. Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can tell us a lot about how people lived, what they…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
Key Words: Can Themba, Apartheid, Writer in Exile, Drum Magazine Born: 1924 Marabastad, Pretoria Died: 1968 Swaziland Education: High School, Polokwane …
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
The South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) was formed in 1953 at a Coloured People's Convention in Cape Town. The organisation aimed to unite…