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PlaceLydenburg, Mpumalanga
… fleeing malaria and the debilitating heat of lower lying Areas in the early 1800's. Although Lydenburg was healthier, … The Lydenburg Heads are one of the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… commemorate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the African National Congress. One of these, Pixley ka Izaka … of Africa belongs to this new and…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… significant in the years leading to 1994. They include the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), … fate of specific communities in…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… As decolonisation swept across the African continent, in the early 1960s African liberation movements in countries that were still … Reflection (MISTRA), the…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… the ANC celebrates the life of this outstanding South African and selfless fighter for justice, freedom, human … Another key inheritance from President Tambo…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… in content, laws which were harsh, laws which destroyed family units, laws which impinged upon the rights of … immensely. And as we all know, such…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… so much as stood in a queue or sat down to dinner with his family. The Minister could also suppress newspapers and … his actions. The failure to popularise…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… the history of one the leading members of the South African communist movement. Starting at the beginning of the South African Indian resistance against the…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… indigenous sense, it relates to kinship between numerous African languages. In Anthropology, the term was used to … in his 1862 publication Comparative…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… Introduction Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press … and as the groups came under attack from South African…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… process of colonisation was ongoing, and was resisted by African peoples. imperialism - a policy of extending a … Burghers, and they formed the nucleus of…
PlaceNtabankulu Municipality
… various groups. The Eastern Cape was one of the first areas colonized by the Portuguese and later by the British, …
Statement at the 50th Session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation Of Africa by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 13 May 1988
… Comrades, ladies and gentlemen, Allow me on behalf of the African National Congress and the struggling people of South … with the most vicious monster that…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… of the Empire, 1909 , HMSO, London, 1909). The South African leaders saw their interests as being closely … from Pretoria was promising. On 4 August, the…
ArticleLives of Courage
… and relatives played in helping to bring about South African democracy. In 2000 South African History Online (SAHO) launched the 'Lives of Courage … anti…
Mandela: Message to India
… South African History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 … Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the post-apartheid South African scene, organised by…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
… [Accessed: 18 February 2015] South African History Online, (2014), ‘ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ’, from South African History Online, [online], Available at …
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention (SANC) decided to call a meeting in … First Section • To formally…
PlaceEcho Caves, Limpopo
On the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, South Africa. The caves, today are declared a National Monument. These Caves are found near Ohrigstad and were opened…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… functioned under the umbrella organization, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) . However, in the 1930s -1940s … under the umbrella organization, the…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… as 'co-conspirators'. Amongst those released were African National Congress (ANC) President Chief Albert Luthuli; African National Congress Secretary General…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… 16 December 1959 - At the annual African National Congress (ANC) conference, Chief Albert … these things they must learn their lesson the hard way.”…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… played a pivotal role in the education of Black South African women. Just outside of Durban, Inanda Seminary has … with other professors to provide a great…
PlaceWinterton, Kwa Zulu-Natal
… a number of Monuments and Memorials connected to the South African (Anglo Boer) war like the Marianne Church ruins, …
PlaceMelmoth, Gateway to Zululand
… corner of KwaZulu Natal . Regarded as lighter than other African teas, such as those produced in Kenya, Ntingwe has …
PlaceKaapsche Hoop, Mpumalanga- Barberton Valley
… This Area, lies within the South African mist-belt. On average it receives more than 1 000 mm …
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… in reaction to the ANC Defiance Campaign. The South West African question was also on the agenda annually as from 1946. Initially the South African…
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… of several SADF forces and a clash between the South African government and Cuban forces. 15 January 1975 … of 15 provincial capitals. 5 August 1975 …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… the Huddleston Jazz Band. By 1956, Masekela joined the African Jazz Revue that was organized by a British entrepreneur named Alfred Herbert as an African…
Bonani Africa 2010 Photographic Festival Conference: Papers and Abstracts
… and Shredded Edge by Ashraf Jamal Self-Imagining and South African Art Photography by Zen Marie “What Goals and Whose … Vision? Present Trends and Future…