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ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
The first sign of open resistance against payment of the tax came when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to collect taxes from the Hlongwa and Cele clans in…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
In September 1984, riots broke out in the Transvaal and spread to other parts of the country. These riots continued until 1986, when the African National…
ArticleSS Mendi
The sinking of the SS Mendi was caused by the reckless action of the captain of the SS Darro. It remains the greatest wartime maritime disaster ever suffered…
People associated with Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Mahomed Dadoo Fatima Dadoo PS Joshi Sarojini Naidoo Molvi Cachalia V. Srinivasa Sastri Jimmy Maxwell Salif Walla Mohambry Gangathura 'Monty'…
Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
In Kadzamira Modjadji’s MatieMedia newspaper article about Fees Must Fall he quoted students who described the movement as revolutionary since protests against…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN – WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "VOICES OF RESISTANCE” INTERVIEWEE SUNNY SINGH INTERVIEWER C DE VOS DATE 28…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africans of different racial groups on their…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
According to a study, titled Sleeping giant is stirring: Farmworkers in South Africa, the farmworker population in the Western Cape make up the highest number…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
This article was written by Jerry Saena and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract: Ruth Heloise First was a…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
In 1912 Enoch Mgjimia, a lay preacher and independent evangelist, broke away from the Wesleyan Methodist Church and joined the Church of God and Saints of…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an important development for South African children, most of whom had…
ArticleHistory of Photography in South Africa
A survey of the history of photography in South Africa reveals, broadly, three important eras, colonisation, repression and Apartheid and the democratic…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC) office bearers
On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its centenary. As part of the uKhongolose: ANC and South Africa’s Struggle for Freedom feature…
ArticleTransport in the air
Ancient stories tell of people's desire to fly like a bird. The Greek myth about Icarus and Daedalus is one of the most famous stories. According to the story,…
ArticleSources task: The Berlin Wall
These tasks have been broken down into smaller pieces to help you practice dealing with complex sources. The questions do not reflect the structure of the…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
Prior to Biko's inquest, magistrates had declined to examine the interrogation methods used, and had attributed detention deaths to natural causes, suicides or…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Annual Gold Award ceremony of the President’t award Pretoria, 25 November 1994
Minister Glover, Premiers of the Eastern Cape and Northern Transvaal; Craig Andrew; Distinguished guests; Ladies and Gentlemen; Recipients of the Gold…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
The Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930 Indians began settling in Natal from 1860 when the first indentured workers arrived.1 They were followed from the mid-1870s…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
1930 Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their…
Bantu Women’s League
The Bantu Women's League was the first women's organisation in South Africa. It was started in 1918 by one of our earliest women activists, Dr Charlotte Maxeke…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
Of all the projects that the administrations of presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and now Cyril Ramaphosa have undertaken over almost 30 years of democracy,…
America, Spanish conquest
All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave TradeThe content below has been modified…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Protest against the Women's Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931 1 The above two…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the mountain, down to our daily lives. The delegates…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the times of apartheid,…
Pravin Gordhan vs the Law, as defined by clichés by Mervyn E. Bennun (Politics Web), 08 September 2016
Myths and Clichés of Prosecution South African political life has become burdened by clichés which render actual thought unnecessary while simultaneously…