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Mission Stations - N-S
Mission Stations - N NAAUWPOORT, also known as NAAUWPOORT JUNCTION, Cape: DGT NABILEYO, Flagstaff, Cape: No data available NABIS, Namibia: RM NAKEEKE,…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
Jomo Kenyatta was born in Kamau, Kenya, on 20 October 1891 and grew up in Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya. Kenyatta ran away from home to become a pupil at…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan Xhosa writer and linguist died in the United State of America in Madison Wisconsin. Jordan was born on 30 October 1906 at the…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
From 1960 to 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of hybridity, I came…
EventIgnatius Iggy Mthebule remembered
Ignatius ‘Iggy’ or ‘Gab’ Mthebule was a student activist and leader associated with the Azanian Student Organisation (AZASO) in 1975. Iggy’s brother, Samuel…
Ayanda Ndamane
Born: Lady Frere, Eastern Cape, 1983. Resides and works in Cape Town. He is presently in his third year of study in photography at the Cape Peninsula…
Mawanda Isaac Mbongela
Born: Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape, 1986. Resides in Vereeniging and is in his third year of study at the Vaal University of Technology. Exhibition: VUT…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
The area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, originally known as Transoranje, with its abundance of permanent water sources, was the hunting grounds of the San…
Krystal Kruger
Born in Kenya on the 20th May 1988, came to South Africa for high school, then decided to study Fine Art at Rhodes University. I’m currently in my fourth year…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
This photograph of two Ndebele leaders is entitled on its reverse: ‘Chiefs “Babyon” & “Omjaam.” Babyan was answerable for the assassination of Alan Wilson’s…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
16 December 1959 - At the annual African National Congress (ANC) conference, Chief Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
The word fascism is used to describe any form of dictatorial, right wing, anti-Communist form of government. Nazi Germany became a fascist country under…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
MILESTONES 1910 - Birth of Mohambry (Monty) Naicker to Papiah Gangathura, a fruiterer, and Dhanamal, of Leopold Street, Durban. 1917-1926 - Attended the…
Masimba Sasa
Born: Harare, Zimbabwe, 1983. Resides in Johannesburg. Studied at the Harare National Polytechnic and the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg. Received a…
Goodluck Mbhele
Goodluck Mbhele was born in 1987 in Kwa-Zulu Natal. He started to like photography when he was 12. Always photographing the people on their birthday parties…
ArticleNdebele
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He has played…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
Community histories of Polokwane
The title is under construction. Community histories on Sotho, Venda, Ndebele and Indian people in the Polokwane region will be added. Please use the…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
The esteemed teacher and journalist, Samuel E.K. Mqhayi described Isaac Williams Wauchope: “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in appearance, a broad-faced…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
I think of the 'anti-apartheid movement' as a coalition of anti-apartheid organisations and individuals, as well as a growing number of governments, which in…
EventBafana Bafana legend Philemon Raul Masinga dies
On 12 January 2019,legendary Bafana Bafana striker Philemon Masinga died at 49 years old in a Johannesburg hospital after a long battle with cancer. …
Padraic O’Meara
Born: Cape Town, 1980. Lives and works in Cape Town. Has a BA (Hons) degree in Motion Pictures and Diplomas in Animation for Film and TV and in Business Acumen…
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…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
Following the 1973, Durban strikes, TUCSA seemed unwilling to hold to book employers. TUCSA had long paid lip service to the ideal of African unions registered…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
Nelson's responses to the Brandfort sojourn are recorded in extracts from the letters that follow: I have thought of you since I heard of the heavy snowfall…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
IntroductionThe 16 June 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
The formation of the Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) Africanist Task Force (ATF) preceded the formation of party’s military wing Poqo in February 1960. After…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
The debate as to whether ethnicity is pre-political or implicitly political can go on forever, without necessarily finding resolution, but there must be a new…