SAHO global search
13,870 records
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… African groups in South Africa under British control. By 1876 he realised that he would not be able to achieve his goal peacefully. He told Disraeli that: …
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… music was also heavily influenced in the 1940s and 1950s by American music and American movies. Hollywood's two … haul out a pennywhistle and begin to play…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… Black majority. A number of brutal measures were adopted by the regime to deal with political activists and other … and wounds of hatred or anger that had…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… The Bill of Rights as we know it today is deeply informed by two vital documents in the history of fight for human … The Universal Declaration of Human…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… list of Indian Indentured Labourers can be searched by: name, village, region of origin, religion, caste, names … serve his/her employer to whom they were to…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… a few school friends ran fruit and vegetable stalls set up by the Nationalist Group of the TIC against discriminatory … Paul Joseph and many other leading…
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… Â 1947 "Joint Declaration of Cooperation" Signed by Dr A.B. Xuma, President of the African National Congress, … the abolition of the pass laws. The…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… from 1948-1994 (Thompson, 1990). Millions were affected by apartheid, but a group that has been seemingly forgotten … will be on the LGBT individuals whose…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… in southern Africa. The conference is being funded by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social … to the historiography of the liberation struggle…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… disbanded. 1923 This election was forced on the government by the expression of no confidence in Smuts’s policies. The … on strategies of dealing with the…
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… Among other reasons for the outpost was the danger posed by armed Khoe (Korana) and groups of mixed ancestry (Griqua). … some of the first Sotho-Tswana…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… While the organization’s early period was characterized by political inertia due to power struggles and lack of … of the establishment of apartheid, its…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… , Gert Maritz and Piet Uys considered the area depopulated by the mfecane, the attractive Natal Coastal plain. Natal had … chieftainship of the Zulu’s)…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… in so far and for as long as their presence is demanded by the wants of the white population. The masterless native … Botha in 1919 pushed away more of the…
EPILOGUE
… to a secondary place. The matter is made worse by the factual inaccuracies, distortions and blatant party … to the South African conflict needs to be…
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
… conditions were determined, through priests and scribes, by the inflexible rule of omnipotent rulers. All of Egypt was … making. (Hellman: 1994) Using the…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… to the harshness of urban life. Schooling was not provided by the state. There were a few black schools run by missionaries and church groups, but many…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… of apartheid. In 1986 the church showed its repentance by preaching for all members of all racial groups to pray … under, one umbrella, thus making South…
Learning about history through objects
… facere meaning to make, so all artefacts are made or used by man. Archaeologists (who are the best history detectives … It has toys that belonged to her…
Indian immigrants engaged in non-sugar growing activities
… as well as goods from across the bay to the port docks. By the turn of the century, the Natal Government Railways was … Indians played a vital role in the…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… colonisation of Kenya and Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania) by Britain and Germany respectively. Zanzibar had controlled … give it up. Concerns amongst the…
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… deaths 20 December Maseru, Lesotho; 9 deaths (followed by coup against Chief Leabua Jonathan). 1986 1 9 May … ANC offices bombed October Harare; car…
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… necessary to put the country on the path of democracy. By now, the government was engaging in negotiations with … MPs, and became the majority party in the…
ArticleThe House in session
… MPs justified their participation in the new system by arguing that they would be able to oppose Apartheid ‘from … Safety Amendment Bill – in June 1986, they…
ArchiveSteve Fataar could have had a rock star ego but didn’t by Rafs Mayet, 24 January 2020
… Edris (better known as Brother) and Ricky were also bitten by the music bug and the lifestyle of that period and started … Like most kids (I was all of seven…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… school in a local primary school in Xolobe that was run by Presbyterian missionaries. It is here that she had to choose a Christian name from a list…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… Written by: FRANCO FRESCURA The exploitation of convict labour at the … that time, was one of the largest penal colonies operated by the British. There he…
Khoisan Identity
… remember that the Khoi-San people were the most brutalised by colonialists who tried to make them extinct, and … label of ‘Hottentot’ applied to herding…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… it became the book of his daily reading. Attended lectures by Dadabhai Naoroji, but spoke to him only once. September … 12, Sailed home on S.S. Oceania. July…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… Times Collection, (1962).|Joseph, H., (1986). Side by Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph , New York: …