SAHO global search
195 records Advanced search →
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… African since S.T. Plaatjie to publish a novel in English. 1945 Dorothy Crisp publishes Abraham’s second novel, Song of …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… issues a flyer Trumpet Call to Youth announcing a meeting. 1945 Albert Luthuli is elected to the Executive Committee of …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial Conciliation Act. 1941 Formation of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TIMELINE — 2011 – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma delivers the traditional ANC…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
"Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection of short stories.[i] She was also described as a passionate and…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
1930 White women get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
Context In the early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of resistance in the country. Its solution was to arrest key people and charge…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… AHI The AHI grew in strength despite the conflicts, and by 1945 it established a network of local business chambers. By … labour for small businesses and…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… order, to hold the long overdue conference of the NIC. 1945 - The NIC held its general meeting at Curries Fountain, …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… to the leadership of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1945 and the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1946 …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
The 1960s witnessed the banning of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to the banning, both parties were forced…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
Following on from Part 1, this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty years, ESKOM’s…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… against the three Ordinances recently passed. 14 March 1945 General Smuts states in the House of Assembly that the … setting aside separate residential areas…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… work for 3000 settlers. [19] This grew to 574 families by 1945. [20] These settlers mainly produced beans, wheat and …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its formation was precipitated by dynamics within the …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 12) A Charge of Treason When detectives invaded the Congress of the People on 26…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ago. Several human remains have been…
Liberation
"We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world to know. We are the people who have borne the…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… of the Council of Non European Trade Unions in 1944 or 1945, when Koza and his friends called for a national trade …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… the agreement on civil air services signed on 26 October 1945. 29 March, Chief Minister Cedric Phatudi of Lebowa signs … Insurance Act, 1966 l)Registration…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
The reaction of the outside world to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African regime,…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… in 1946. Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act (No: 25) 1945 The Natives Urban Areas Consolidation Act was passed in 1945. Amongst other things, the Act…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
Photograph of a Khoisan lady. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 The Khoisan are established as the dominant power in the southern and south…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
Was the system of indentured Indian labour "a new system of slavery"?as Hugh Tinker entitles his book? The answer would depend on how the reader defines the…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… group and took over the reins of the NIC on 21 October 1945. The Indian Government’s response ↵ The Extraordinary … General Smuts stated in the House of…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… of the town and its population. In about 10 years from 1945-1955 the White population doubled to 8000 of a total of …
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
George Hallett—More than Mandela Abstract George Hallett, a South African photographer is an artist who spent several decades living in exile. He left the…