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PlaceSibudu Cave, North Coast near Ballito (can be spelt Sibhudu)
… “The various layers and the finds they have provided also document how human technologies changed though this period as … The various layers and the finds…
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson's book Born Free, dies in Kenya
Elsa the lioness was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self defence by George Adamson. Adamson was a wildlife conservationist based in…
59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement
… country were protected. But no sooner was the ink on that document dry than another agitation was set on foot under the … to the Prime Minister of the Union…
EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… and handed it to the Directorate in 1649 as an official document called a Remonstrantie. In this report Janszen …
ArchiveRudd Concession by King Lobengula of Matabeleland (1888)
… Helm and Dreyer) I hereby certify that the accompanying document has been fully interpreted and explained by me to …
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… was on the land question. [10] Burlak, who drafted the document (entitled The Native Question ), produced government … of total separation from the British…
Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
For over three decades, the remarkable story of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Special Operations Unit has remained largely untold. Formed under the direct command of ANC…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… On 3 September the ANC published a discusÂsion document containing comprehensive amendments to the South … behind it. The first arose from the submission of…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… [Accessed 16 November 2016]. Land Reform Policy Discussion Document.. 2012. South Africa History Online. [Online] … /www.sahistory.org.za/archive/land…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… Conference and adopted the ‘ Strategy and Tactics ’ document as a way of giving new impetus to the struggle. 1960 … structures within the country. At the…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… International Conference on Health in South Africa. A document was released following the conference to address the … and human rights protections for the…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… promoted the idea of the Freedom Charter as a capitalist document and for the development of capitalism on a national … of challenging imperialism the…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… parties did not feel it proper to make the final document without public support through the electoral system. …
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… women. Women take a stand against passes A pass was a document that black people were forced by the government to …
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Gertrude Fester Biography Abstract …
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… apartheid began, Goldblatt picked up a camera and began to document the developments in South Africa, which continue, …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Opening Session of the South Centre’s Council of Representatives New York, 21 September 1998
… The outcome of the Twelfth Summit, embodied in its Final Document and the Durban Declaration for the New Millennium, …
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… 10-page abridged version of the Stuart Report (Chapter 4, Document 115). In a section headed “Mutiny in Umkhonto we … Commission, an investigative body…
Address by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki at teh Development Planning Summit Hosted by the Intergovernmental Forum, 27 November 1995
… despite its almost biblical character, the RDP Base Document did not provide us with all the answers. We have … our vision do not replace the targets set in…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… Committee. The adoption of a constitution and policy document was deferred to future conference which could be … had referred to the Freedom Charter as the…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading,…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… might control the African who was required to carry some document that would identify him and bear witness that he had … taxes. As time went on, other things…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… We found it very difficult to get hold of the full document. (There was no internet in those days.) The state’s … lawyers objected to this quotation without…
Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters
… enter as another form of archive. If the photographs document the public terrain of struggle, Sobukwe’s …
Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
… eight artists were invited to select artefacts from the document archive of the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), a …
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
Mthatha, founded in 1879, was declared the Capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. The former Transkei is now part of the…
PlaceUnited States Consulate, Cape Town
The U.S. Consulate General in Cape Town serves as a branch of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to South Africa. It is located in the suburb of Westlake. They are…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
July 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of the South African Communist Party (SACP): one of the first Marxist-Leninist parties on the continent, and among…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… will seek to explain how we came to adopt this great document that is respected throughout the world as one of the … Charter was adopted at the Congress of…