SAHO global search
1,640 records
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… the University of Western Cape pledged their support for striking union workers of food manufacturer Fattis and Monis. …
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… Police Service (SAPS) officers shot and killed at least 34 striking miners and injured 75 people in Marikana, North West …
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… with the complex and ever-changing world order. The balance of forces and the balance of power is about concrete analysis of the dynamic … Better Africa and…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… December 16 as a public holiday was an attempt to strike a balance between a divided past and promoting national unity …
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… Owing to the upsetting of Bismarck’s carefully laid balance of power in European politics caused by Leopold’s …
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched to articulate the interests of Traditional Leaders and act as an extra…
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
BATTISS, JUNOD, FRANZ and GROSSERT. 1958. The Art of Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter. BEINART, Julian. Undated. The Popular Art of Africa…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… United Nations and was aimed at finding ways to strike a balance between economic development and environmental …
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former National Party (NP),…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
This compilation of speeches of Dr Monty Naicker is an invaluable chapter in the history of our struggle for liberation. Monty, as we all referred to him…
ArchiveAppendix 4 Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe by Denis Goldberg
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe mark a break with that past. We are striking out along a new road for the liberation of the … and its policies of race oppression . It…
The Bill of Rights
… must be just and equitable, reflecting an equitable balance between the public interest and the interests of …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… a world in which Africans are free (Dhlomo, 1941). What is striking about Dhlomo’s poetic writing style is that while he …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
Post-Election Political Violence
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As South Africa went to the polls on 27 April 1994,…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… to Xhosa customs, but eventually, he found some degree of balance in the maintenance of two identities. [32] This …
ArticleThe Constitution
… practicality, expense, regional circumstances and the balance of the needs and preferences of the population as a …
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
The League of Nations, the world body formed after World War 1 in 1919, afforded South Africa a mandate to govern South-West Africa (now Namibia). The mandate…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… the Conservative Party. This move shifted the political balance in favour of "reformism" among remaining …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
As the German publisher Gerhard Steidl prepares a series of books on the life work of David Goldblatt, Jeffrey Ladd spoke with the South African photographer…
Hendrik Verwoerd’s response to the ‘Winds of Change’ speech
… themselves and settled in. But similarly, we believe in balance, we believe in allowing exactly those same full …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… spiritual make-up, the Africans exhibit indications of striking affinity to the people of the Orient, i.e., … of the human soul. In their spiritualism,…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… cornices and voussoirs at window and door arches. The most striking feature is the imposing Neo-Dutch Renaissance gable …
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… Workers' Union in calling upon the miners to scab upon the striking native workers is the limit of treachery to the …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… many occasions. Protesters were flogged or even shot for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration …
Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
For over three decades, the remarkable story of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Special Operations Unit has remained largely untold. Formed under the direct command of ANC…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… were one or two occasions when we stumbled across some striking misconceptions about notions of ownership, where …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Industrialisationand rural change were key…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… and were not possible to meet. After five months of striking, both the platinum companies and AMCU settled for a …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… revived with a focus on civic work. In the 1980s the most striking of the campaigns embarked on by NIC was the …