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ArchiveNicaragua necesita tecnicos
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a man and a woman reading books. Four circles representing four different occupations. …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… ignored in history texts. Not only did most of these older books lean heavily towards white political development to the … after all, have been silent for…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
Christiaan de Wet was born at Leeuwkop near Smithfield, Orange Free State, on 7 October 1854. He received little formal education, spending his days helping…
Workers of the world
… a woman worker standing back to back. Advertisement for books on workers' struggles in other countries. ILRIG logo. …
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
… lessons for Grades 4 to 12 Curriculum Publications: Books and CDs created for schools with limited digital access … in partnership with universities,…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… 81st birthday and is a worthy successor to her two earlier books, If This be Treason (1963) and Tomorrow's sun (1966). … First published by Zed Books Ltd…
Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929
… Perhaps you could make some inquiries at your end. The two books certainly left here safely. I hope you have now seen No …
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… memorialists' names were registered in the fieldcornet's books and not in the books of the Asiatic Department, and therefore not classed as …
Bantu Education boycott
… cultural clubs weren't schools. We weren't allowed to have books or blackboards or anything like that either. Some other … all those people so they would…
ArchiveThe cost of apartheid
… poster. Artwork of two bags of money and a pile of books. Special defence overspent by R140 million. Black child …
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… in South Africa. We will be adding biographies, articles, books etc, to this feature during the year. The country's …
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… government announced that it would start issuing reference books from January 1956. A demonstration was held on the 27th …
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
Early Years and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on 14 October 1937 in Krugersdorp. As a child, Dinat would often attend meetings with…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He…
BiographyNatvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia
Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia was born on 28 March 1924 at Coedmore Road, Bellair, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Natoo Babenia’s political activism…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Conference presidential Address held at Grahamstown, 1981
… Pass Laws, free enterprise, introduction of identity books for all South Africans. …
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… written by Thula Simpson, is published by Penguin Books South Africa. …
EventAfrikaans linguist H J Terblanche is born
… Terblanche, compiler of several dictionaries and grammar books, is born in Aberdeen in the Eastern Cape. Dr Terblanche …
Claremont Histories Photographic Exhibition
… event is co-sponsored by South African History Online and books published by South African History Online will be on …
ArchiveNatives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act, Act No 67 of 1952
… passes by natives; to provide for the issue of reference books to natives; to amend the Native Administration …
EventPeter Becker dies
… Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historicl books on African people and their customs, died instantly …
EventFlorence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born
… her opinions on health reform, Nightingale published two books, Notes on Hospital (1859) and Notes on Nursing (1859). …
Concluding Remarks
… took root in events prior to 1976. In several recent books, by contrast, the impression is given that protest art … but focuses on the Eighties. In relation…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… the African National Congress shall set out Condolence Books at the ANC Headquarters, Chief Albert Luthuli House, … for Madiba, his family and our nation…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
… the rulers and some members who prefer to be in their good books, rather than be on the side of the people and those who …
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias, also spelt: Bartholomew Diaz. He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a…
Stephen Marais
Stephen Marais was born in Stellenbosch in 1956. My mother-tongue is English, my ouma-taal Afrikaans. He was nine when Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 and…