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12. The pickled money-order receipt
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian immigrants sent money regularly to…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
Hayden Proud, Curator of Historical Collections of Painting and Sculpture, Iziko Museums of Cape Town Some years ago, a small body of artists clubbed together…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… African Indian Council Committee and the Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee were formed to oppose South African Indian … to the South African Indian Council are…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… National Congress (ANC) , South African Indian Congress (SAIC) , South African Coloured People's Congress (SACPC), and …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… between the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) after the joint Defiance Campaign had been announced. …
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg. Her parents lived in Orlando West, Soweto where she…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe King…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
Peter Hlaole Molotsi was born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on July 18, 1929. His father was a…
BiographyShaka Zulu
Sigidi kaSenzangakhona commonly knows as Shaka was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu was born in the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. His father…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) General H. Van Den Bergh,, briefly appeared on Rhodesian (now known as Zimbabwe) Television…
EventPresident Jacob Zuma steps down as President of South Africa
On the 14 February 2018, President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma announced his resignation with immediate effect, following years of scandals and internal disputes…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
Please note that there is a compulsory assessment task that must be completed in this section (part of the curriculum)New identities: Human Rights for allThe…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… Organisation (APO), the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the Native Voters Association, the Bantu Union and …
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work", (Editorial),…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… In 1952 the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) jointly launched the Defiance Campaign – a mass …
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
Black business pioneer, community leader, altruistic medical practitioner, involved in several education initiatives, former secretary-general of the ANC Youth…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz witnessed the rise of…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 9 October 1940. She attended Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South…
BiographyJan Smiesing
This article was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people were auctioned for sale…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him four times with a…
In memory of Archbishop Dennis Hurley by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 September 2009, Durban
Archbishop Emeritus Denis Hurley, centre, at the freedom march in 1989 with other religious leaders. On the morning of the 17 August 2009, my copy of The…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
1862 The first documented football matches in South Africa are played in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (between White civil servants and soldiers). 1879 …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened…
Address at the South African Millenium Trust Launch, Kyalami 19 November 1998
Master of Ceremonies, "The tree of our bitterness has come full leaf: and the fall of our century will carry the foliage away: we watered the root with our…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… buses. Whites met with members of the ANC, the SACP and SAIC to form the Congress of Democrats (COD). The ANC wanted …
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Indian Congress had several…