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PlaceSabie Sands Game Reserve
The Sabi Sands Game Reserve is a 65,000 Hectare Reserve, pioneered by local Landowners in the 1950s, and shares a border with the' World-Renowned': Kruger…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin
An Appreciation By Sir Evelyn Baring, High Commissioner For The United Kingdom I first met Abdulla Kajee on the quay at Durban in July 1929, when I stepped…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 12) A Charge of Treason When detectives invaded the Congress of the People on 26…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
On 15 September 1910, General Louis Botha and Hertzog's South African Party (SAP) won the majority number of seats in the House Assembly forming the first…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
Sibongile ‘Promise’ Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually abused by the then…
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… Bay valley and its environs was probably inhabited by San hunter-gathering communities, which were replaced by Khoi …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popular in the Nguni ethnic group (Zulu). It…
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…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
Important and significant events preceded this address of the Prime Minister. There was the accusation from the Herstigte Nasionale Party concerning…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu General Hertzog is rightly recognised first politician to urge with constant…
PlaceBrandvlei, Karoo
Abiekwakop is a Hillock 50 km North of Brandvlei, in the Kenhardt District. A Khoikhoi name derived for the bushes they used, to make digging apparatus. …
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut (AHI – in English the Afrikaans Commercial Institute) was formed during WWII to create Afrikaner businesses and represent their…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
TK: So com, could you tell us about your history and how you came into the struggle? Harry Gwala: Well, my history is maybe interesting in its own way, you…
Notes from Books
Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 11 - 15 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Friday, August 13 It's happened. Cape Town is no longer the only quiet place in the…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as equal citizens. South African women …
ArticleWomens Rights
It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as equal citizens. South African women …
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
The Great Trek and the advent of the Mfecane The origins of the battle are a matter of considerable debate. The background to this event can be found in two…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the times of apartheid,…
David Goldblatt: “Particulars” (1975) by The ASX Team, 16 May 2013
“I seem to have an innate propensity which has been fed by life experiences and heightened by the kind of hyper-awareness that photography sometimes enables…
News SABC ‘should be hitting the panic button’ over Jimi Matthews’ resignation by Ndileka Lujabe (City Press), 27 June 2016
Jimi Matthews has been praised as “doing the right thing” following his resignation from the SABC today. Matthews, who was acting SABC chief executive,…
PlaceBothasig, Cape Town
The Cape Town Suburb of Bothasig is known for the wonderful Christmas lights displays that residents have been putting up for the last few Years. Decorated…
PlacePort Nolloth, Namaqualand Northern Cape
What today is essentially a fishing village, Port Nolloth lies on the bay known by the indigenous Namaqua people as: 'Aukwatowa'- (where the water took away…
BiographyKobera Manual
Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View, when she shared some…
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one…
BiographyNana Sita
Please note: this is an extract from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in Gujarat, India, in 1898, in a family…
BiographyNongqawuse
History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
The condemned MK activist arrived at Pretoria Central prison on Tuesday at nine o'clock in the morning. A number of white warders at the prison immediately…