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ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… about it. The below example uses an article from South African History Online, however, a recently written piece can … shirt and cap, presented the Webb…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… with lessons he believed could be learnt from the South African struggle, we might shed some light on the way ahead. … of resistance and seek to draw lessons…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… of UDI, I spent two terms teaching as a volunteer at an African Secondary School run by the London Missionary Society … I began to understand and sympathise…
ArchiveChapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg
… one of our ANC comrades and came from a well-established family. I have the greatest respect for them for their … in December 1964 to nine years for his…
PlaceGreater Mapungubwe Heritage Site And Tour.
… in the Vhembe District. The other stakeholders are South African National Parks (SANParks), Limpopo Economic …
PlaceEmgwenya, formally Waterval Boven
Emgwenya means: 'Place of the Crocodile'. (Ngwenya, is an Nguni surname, meaning the same thing!) Emgwenya was formally Waterval Boven and can be found at the…
Debating Lineages of Socialism in Africa Webinars
… South African History Online, the Wits History Workshop, the … Studies and the AC Jordan Chair at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape…
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
Khami Ruins National Monument and World Heritage Site, is located to the west of the Khami River, 22 km from the City of Bulawayo. The property, located on a…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… challenged the beliefs, policies, or actions of the South African government. Such a general definition functions … support apartheid. Television networks…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… which succeeded Mapungubwe as the centre of southern African trade. Mapungubwe is a complex society of a much … traded with Arabia, China and India through…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… 1980s was a decade which became a turning point in South African history. Popular protest by masses of ordinary South …
Submissions & winning projects 2009
… Award to learners who most effectively promoted South African heritage. Patricia Vangile Simon, ‘the history of the …
ArticleConference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… Apartheid Struggle" by Norman Levy and "Alex Hepple South African Socialist" by Bob Hepple. Both are part of SAHO's …
ArticleA White Referendum
… Party opposed the measures, arguing that the exclusion of African people from the new system would exacerbate tensions, …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… was meant to dislodge the two groups from an alliance with African nationalists and other anti-Apartheid forces that …
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… the Coloured Labour Party , Black Sash , and the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). NIC and SASO …
PlaceSoebatsfontein, Northern Cape
The name of this small Village ('fountain of pleading') comes from a Spring in the middle of the Village. Legend has it that a man named Hendrik Stievert…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… – and still is - a common form of authority within Black African communities. For example, during the pre-colonial … the leader was accountable to their…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… fountain-head has bequeathed stagnation and poverty to the African inhabitants of the so-called Protectorates, no less … naval officer who had turned…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… CPSA was the only white party which represented the South African blacks’ interests.456 “I am glad to say”, Gumede … of Communism; secondly the influence of…
ArticleAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI)
… in 2005, concerned with the lack of engagement by South African artists, art historians and curators with their peers on the African continent. Since then…
PlaceMiddledrift, Eastern Cape
Distance between East London and Middledrift. It takes 1 hours, 52 minutes to travel from East London to Middledrift. It takes 1 hours, 52 minutes to travel…
PlaceSwellendam
Swellendam is situated in the Breede River Valley 190 km, East of Cape Town. The Town lies at the base of the Langeberg Mountains. Founded in 1743 by the Dutch…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Source Based Questions
… these goods for enslaved inhabitants from Africa at the African ports. These ships would then travel across the … from the Bible. Due to the Portuguese…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… of the fact whether he was an Indian, coloured or African. The only thing that mattered was that the people … Chetty, Kid Sathamoney, and Young Hussain are…
PlaceDeelpan
A Village in the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West, of South Africa. It has two schools, namely: Badibana High School and Ramadiane Primary…
PlaceJoe Gqabi District Municipality, Eastern Cape
Joe Gqabi District Municipality was previously known as: 'uKhahlamba District Municipality'. It is a Category C Municipality located in the Eastern Cape. It…
PlaceHaartbeespoort
… This game reserve is one of the most diverse conservation areas of North West, where visitors can walk freely along …
Early Resistance, the 1913 Land Act and deputations to London
… The first restriction that the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) aimed to contest was …
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress, …