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ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… court nobles only focused on leading scandalously wealthy lives. [20] The third estate consisted of the peasants, which …
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… and have their manuscripts publish as part of Saho’s “Lives of Courage” book series. Memorial service for Victoria … places and spaces that ordinary people…
BiographySimon Gqubule
… disadvantaged as he sought to help them improve their lives the same way his Chaplain had done for him. In 2014 he …
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… in Fatton, 1986: 55). It was this kind of situation that Biko had in mind when he expressed in his column, "I Write … with experience of NUSAS politics …
The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition 2014
… Allie, University of Cape Town Ms Obenewa Amponsah, Steve Biko Foundation Mr Omar Badsha, South African History Online …
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… denied amnesty in 1999 for his role in the death of Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). …
EventYoussou N’Dour, Senegalese singer, is born.
… Nelson Mandela in 1985; reworking the Peter Gabriel song, Biko, along with Lou Reed as part of the Amnesty …
France in 1789
… Louis XVI came to power, but even after their deaths their writings influenced public opinion and educated people began …
ArticleConference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… African Socialist" by Bob Hepple. Both are part of SAHO's “Lives Of Courage” series. SAHO is planning two other …
ArticleGrade 11 Topic 3 – Source-Based Questions
An image showing the persecution of German Jews after the Nazi took powerImage Source Source 3A The source below shows how the Nuremberg laws affected…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… was not just a career as it consumed the teachers’ entire lives, as they were the main caregivers for the girls inside … movement including Nelson and Winnie…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… Institute who trained her and fellow activists like Steve Biko , Welile Nhlapo, Saths Cooper , and many other future … movement Matshoba trained for with…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Fatima Meer banned for planning mass rally with Steve Biko . Winnie Mandela placed under house arrest. Robert … Shezi, who inspired Black Consciousness ideas…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… This normative conceptualization is characteristic of the writings of the Drum protest movement stalwarts, among them …
Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016
… when they banned Decadent Art and torched anti-hegemonic writings were not properly understood for its politically …
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… intellectual rapport with Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko . These conversations usually occurred deep into the … would impose a banning order on him,…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
When the Dutch journalist Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could never have imagined where it would lead…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Bob Gosani, Eli Weinberg, Leon Leveson. December 18, Steve Biko is born 1947 Industrial Conciliation (Natives) Bill 1947 …
Classroom activities: Learning about history
… and by learning about our past mistakes we may lead better lives and build a better future. Researching our own history …
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School. Nyoka was…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… of concern.” (p.156) This book is a treasure-trove of writings from the 1980s by Ari Sitas – one of South Africa’s … of essays emerged out of Ari’s deep…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… performances that captures the complexities of our daily lives”. Infecting the City is the only public arts festival … place in South Africa and it seeks to…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… literacy groups in the late 1920s; it emerged in the writings of Peter Abrahams and Alex la Guma ; it infused … campuses. We were also profoundly conscious…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… question about whether or not he feels as though his writings suffered during his exile, due to the fact that he … one another. Serote incorporated what he…
Learning about history through objects
… the objects you can help Ariel learn more about their lives. Try to answer the following questions: What objects …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… South African Students' Organisation (SASO) led by Steve Biko , through which they planned to formulate their own … studies at the University of Natal in…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… that Sampson’s book and King Kong had raised about the lives of urban black South Africans under apartheid in … history and reception of Alex La Guma’s early…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… to internal problems. In 1970 Black students led by Steve Biko broke away from NUSAS to form South African Students …
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… to enforce their anti-Semitic policies. By 1938, the lives of Jews living in Germany had become intolerable. A … that teenagers learn from watching the…