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ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria, South Africa constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
In the early days of the Free State, citizenship was limited to the White population only. This became part of the constitution in 1854, and included those who…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut (AHI – in English the Afrikaans Commercial Institute) was formed during WWII to create Afrikaner businesses and represent their…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
For some time there had always been a question in peoples' minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of the People in 1955, to take place. In…
EventIdi Amin is deposed as the President of Uganda
Idi Dada Amin ruled Uganda from 1971 until 1979 after he unconstitutionally seized power from president Obote Milton. However, in 1979 he suffers the same fate…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
Chapman’s Peak is named after John Chapman, the Captain’s mate of an English ship, the 'Consent'. The Peak which can be seen from Hout Bay, was not named after…
Address at the Meeting of Nigerian and South African Business 2 October 2000
Minister Mustapha Bello Chief Kola Daisi Mr Bumi Oni Ministers Nigerian Business Leaders The South African business delegation Distinguished Guests …
PlaceThesen Island
It was to this island that much of the timber harvested from the Knysna Forest came and it was shipped off again to Cape Town and points East to feed the Cape…
PlacePomeroy- Solomon Linda
Pomeroy is a small Town in KwaZulu-Natal which is some 72 km North of Greytown and 56 km South-South-East of Dundee. It falls under the jurisdiction of the;…
PlaceUlundi, Kwa-Zulu Natal, (also known as Mahlabathini)
Ulundi is also known as Mahlabathini. Ulundi Local Municipality is part of Zululand District Municipality. At one time Ulundi was the Capital of Zulu Kingdom,…
The CASA Conference
The Anti-Apartheid Beweging Nederland (AABN), which was part of the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement, organised the Culture in Another South Africa (CASA)…
Lerato Maduna
Lerato Maduna was born in Soweto in 1985. Studied various courses in photography at The Market Photo Workshop including the yearlong Photojournalism and…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
Message to the Rally to Relaunch the ANC Women's League by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 9 August 1990
I salute you all from a land far away on this great occasion, the relaunch of the African National Congress Women's League. I should have been with you, but…
PlaceRepublic of Congo
The Republic of Congo, also known as Middle Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, and Congo (but not to be confused with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
Good afternoon Dumelang Hello Absheni! Hola! It is an honour to be with you this afternoon. The task at hand certainly daunts me. Yet, it is…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter Three 1945 marked a decisive…
ArticleTransport on land
The first form of transport on land was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals Carts, wagons and coaches The bicycle The steam engine and the train …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
Defiance Campaign mass meeting The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such…
ArchiveAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
… his hands on some luxuries. More than 2 years later, in 1989, Anton was instructed to return to South Africa. Back in … On the 17th Nov 1989 ANC guerrilla…
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
On 30 May 1899 President Paul Kruger and the British High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, met at a conference in Bloemfontein to talk about…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
Few alumni know this, but one of South Africa’s most important civil rights leaders is part of the University of Minnesota family. One hundred years ago,…
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,…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
On 17 September 1998, demonstrators closed down businesses and government offices in Lesotho as protests against the outcome of the 23 May 1998 election…
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
In terms of the notorious Group Areas Act (1950), the following proclamation was made in June 1958: 'In Cato Manor, Natal; 25,798 Indians, 2,107 Coloureds and…
Article1994 Cabinet
Cabinet Members Ministry / Portfolio Minister / Incumbent Deputy Minister(s) President…
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
Many people were involved in the historic turning point that 16 June 1976 became. These South African students, parents, activists, government employees, and…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents and parses that…
PlaceKingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban
Although it operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, this cricket ground in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal is more commonly referred to as…