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Bloemfontein - segregation in education
Amersfoort Legacy: History of Education in South Africa White schools Initial education requirements set in the 19th century in the Free State were not high,…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
An unassuming veteran: Sheila Weinberg Obituary by Raymond Suttner in The Mail and Guardian, 19-25 November 2004, p.36 Sheila Weinberg has suddenly died. She…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
Books Berens, P., J. Gurney & Rob Siebörger. (1996). Making History Standard 2. Johannesburg: Heinemann. Machado, A. M. (1994). Exploration into Latin…
ArticleThe Transkei
Struggles against the Bantu Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei, where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke into…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention (SANC) decided to…
ArticleBlack Sash
The Women's Defence of the Constitution LeagueIn 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly English-speaking formed an organization…
EventNelson Mandela is born
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the small village of Mvezo, in the district of Qunu near Umtata, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape)…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
Federation of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW) President and the first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was banned…
EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
The minister of (Black) education and training, Dr Ferdinand Hartzenberg, announced that compulsory education for Black children would be introduced in stages,…
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
Eighty thousand Blacks attended a mass funeral in KwaNobuhle township for the twenty-eight people killed by police during a demonstration in Langa on 21 March…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
Towards the end of 2015 I sent the communication below to a fellow African to respond to some comments he had made on the matter of ‘Mbeki, HIV & AIDS’. We…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Nationalist Government attacks on the union continued. Schoeman refused to gazette the agreement for the clothing industry, which contained the award of the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic Today the industrial working class is more…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson The South African struggle received little attention from the…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
‘The South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New Nineveh, ‘has always been dominated by … mining, agriculture and domestic service.’ Van…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by members of the ANC who believed…
PlaceWorld War Cenotaph
The Cenotaph on Du Toitspan Road, is a Memorial to 400 of Kimberley’s Men who died in the Great War (World War I) between 1914 and 1918. Designed by the local…
EventThree MK soldiers found guilty
On the afternoon of 25 January 1980, three Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadres: Stephen Mafoko, Humphrey Makhubo, and Wilfred Madela, were en route to sabotage…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
The Administrative capital of South Africa, Pretoria, or the 'Jacaranda City' is best known for its annual display of purple flowers in October. Located in the…
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
On 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day, a group of about 15 people protested on the steps of St George's Cathedral in Cape Town to demand medical…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
Constructing Heritage and Heritage ResourcesHeritage – our past, and where we come from – means different things to different people. Some people relate to the…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
‘I am prepared to lay down my life for freedom’, Gumede, 1928. Introduction As the first President-General to represent the ANC officially in Moscow, Gumede’s…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
On 20 March 1993, South African artist and musician Gerard Sekoto (80) died in Paris. Often cited as the pioneer of urban black art and social realism, Sekoto…
EventMilitary coup is executed in Lesotho
On 30 April 1991, the head of the Lesotho military, Maj.Gen Justin Lekhanya was ousted by rebel junior officers. The reasons for this coup was a long standing…
EventOne-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
It was announced that at least one-fifth of South Africa's military was infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Therefore on 7 October 2003 the Defence…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
My thanks to Professor Goerling for inviting me to present this paper to the conference on Torture and the Future. Torture has recently been often in the news…
ArchiveEdwin Mofutsanyana the oldest communist in Africa
Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana (born 1899)
ArchiveRex vs Isaac Tabata
Charge against I B Tabata for contravening Proclamation 31 of 1939.