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EventDennis Brutus is born
… At the time of his death in 2009, he had published 14 books. He is regarded as one of Africa’s most influential … SAHO Dennis Brutus [online] Available at:…
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… whose world views were very advanced for her time. Her books though written over a century ago, seem to have … Olive Schreiner letters online Welcome to the…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
… 27th November. • A partnership with South African History Online has been set up and work will begin on Monday30th …
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… for the ANC and would allow the children to read forbidden books and listen to anti-apartheid broadcasts like Radio … with the apartheid regime. Ben would…
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… South African author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European languages, Hymne … Writers,' Author of novels and short stories ',[online],…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… at the University of Natal. Kunene has published several books including poems and several articles on Zulu Philosophy … Cas, The Mazisi Kunene Foundation…
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… A creative writer, he has written in many genres. One his books, Trekking to Teema, became the first internet book in … Pieter-Dirk Uy ‘ Pieter Dirk Uys CV’ …
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
… his erudition and enlightenment started with unsuitable books when he was a boy: He read books at an early age which … any other reason.A week later on the…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… the funeral were also arrested for not carrying their pass books, to prevent them from attending the funeral. However, …
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
… as existing retail channels, direct sales to the public or online platforms of items that were not previously traded … furniture and wheelchairs, now sells…
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… ships from the 1920s to the 1960s. There is also an online service to assist with queries relating to the ships … Iziko Maritime Centre (2020), Maritime…
EventSA artist, Lionel Davis, is born
… studies in 1981. He has contributed to literary magazines, books on education, poetry anthologies and calendars. His two … SAHO Lionel Davis [online]…
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… Dreyer published numerous other history articles and books, and was also an avid collector of Africana. His unique …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… Cape in 1933. While in he was in exile, he wrote eight books and campaigned ceaselessly against apartheid. Prior to … - Donald Wood s, from South African…
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… the Asiatic Act of 1927 to them. He also authored several books in Hindi, namely History of passive resistance in South …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… retiring in 1999. A talented writer, she wrote several books, one of which is her autobiography, Call me Woman. The … South Africa from The guardian Monday,…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… arranged for his legal counsel, Harry Bloom, to bring him books under the pretext that he was studying. When Dadoo was … A Political Biography , Brian…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… project, and to my old comrade Omar Badsha at SA History Online, whose offer to assist with the electronic aspects of …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… (ed.). The Island: A History of Robben Island, 1488-1990 . Online 1996. Available url: …
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… had been rioting in Durban, bloodshed. I was in the bad books of the government, so much so that in 1930 I was served … never, any conflict, except that the…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… [1] “Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe,” South African History Online (South African History Online, February 17, 2011), … [2] “Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe,” South…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
… The legend of the Rain Queen was also popularized by the books King Solomon's Mines and She by author H. Rider … dies". The Sowetan, 14 June edition. …
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… of Kwazulu-Natal Press. History of South African soccer [Online]. Available at: news24.com/ [accessed 02 July 2010] … and Politics in South African Football…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
… and Ten Pence” campaign to get children to donate the books they had finished together with ten pence to cover the … sheer amount of work involved in sorting…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… his series of humerous short stories. He published five books and two volumes of poems in the early 1930s, using the …
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… to Natal and the Zulu people. She collected manuscripts, books, photographs and maps over her lifetime, and encouraged … South African History Online, …
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… maintained that the number was more than 3 000. Sources: Books: Fraser, R. (1990). Keesing's Records of World Events: …
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… Maeterlinck, a Nobel Laureate plagiarized one of his books The soul of the white ant. Marais committed suicide by … D., ‘Worker in a science yet unborn’ from…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… its Voices of Liberation series, with the first two books focusing on the lives of Ruth First and Albert Luthuli, …