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ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… item) Chief Albert Luthuli is a political heritage that SA cannot afford to misplace (video) …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1929 At the second SA federation of Trade Unions conference, Kotane is elected …
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… The strike spreads to Pimville Higher Primary School. The SA Students Movements makes an attempt to consolidate the … attempt to arrest the leader of the…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… profits were derived from industrial activity, the first SA bank to do so. In 1992 Volkskas merged with other banks to … in the 1980/1 financial year it…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… of cemeteries in Clairwood and Queen Street and was a keen soccer player. He was married to Ponnama and they had seven …
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
Introduction The National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) is South Africa's second largest trade union federation with more than 400 000 members. Its largest…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… A reception was held for him where he was welcomed by the SA Women’s Auxilliaries, and Omar Essa, representing the … A reception was held for him where he…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… force, Black people in Rustenburg lost their rights to SA citizenship. They were forced to submit their SA identity documents and passports and given…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… backed the DA. “The DA has the right ideas for fixing SA, but is in no position to implement them,” the article … at the national level, for the ANC”…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… Federal Party (PFP) were bombed, with a group called the SA Liberation Support Cadre claiming responsibility for the … UDF affiliates. May Day 1986 saw the…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… closed collection. This is its first online publication by SA History Online. Herein may be a found a memory of the …
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… UN Security Council sent an appeal ‘strongly urging’ the SA government to avoid aggravating the situation further and …
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… authority. By mutual agreement it was decided that the SA Defence Force was to be responsible for the foreign …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… In 1985, many foreign banks refused to roll over SA loans, and some private capital began to pull out of the …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… not reject the liberalism of Nusas right away. 1969-70 The SA Council of Churches, in collaboration with the Christian … conference in Wentworth, declaring…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
Introduction European interest in Zimbabwe can be traced to the 18th century. This began with the arrival of Christian missionaries in 1858, who befriended…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… tps://citizen.co.za/parenty/2301999/more-than-20-schools-in-sa-accused-of-racism/ …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… and Coloured officials in the anti-apartheid South African Soccer Federation (SASF) form the anti-racist professional … twenty-two sentenced to death for the…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Pers van Suid Afrika Beperk (OPSA, Independent Press of SA), which Jooste controlled. [11] In response to these … South Africa to be declared a republic, and…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… that cultural differences between whites and blacks in SA could be as a result of physiological differences in the brain. [15] In so doing, eugenicists in SA…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… to cancel plans to attend the opening the 2010 World Soccer Cup. 11 July, Nelson Mandela attends the Closing Ceremony of the 2010 World Soccer Cup. 15 July,…
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… mechanized battalion, 32 Buffalo battalion, and later 4th SA Infantry group. On the 23rd March the battle reached a …
Why protect worker’s rights?
… or profession freely). Key Constitutional judgments SA National Defence Union v Minister of Defence (1999) ( read …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… a new era of democratic rule in South Africa. Image from “SA press clips supplement “the State of emergency: June …
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… variety of events such as the closing ceremony of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, hosted in South Africa. Indeed, the …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa”, SA History Online, (Uploaded: 2 December 2019), (Accessed: 30 …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… rather categorized with umdlalo [1] performances such as soccer matches and church sermons. There were also attempts … past self-defence instructors, lay…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African …
ArticleThe San
… (DF Bleek: 1956). South Africa's motto, written on the SA coat of arms is a /Xam phrase: !ke e: /xarra //ke, …
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… Ansell; other members included Muff Anderson, Mike Hamlyn (SA draft resister) and Uriel Abrahamse. The festival focused …