SAHO global search
17,291 records
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… including Indians, Coloureds, Whites, and Blacks – staged a march on the Union Buildings of Pretoria to protest against the abusive pass laws. Estimates of…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… however, were chiefly concerned by British attempts to annex their self-declared republics, a move that would once again put them at the mercy of capital and…
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 ……
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… an organisation of mainly high school students was formed to represent students, articulate grievances and foster … , and especially against the imposition…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Document 8 Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom 28 May 1957…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… the passing of the Native Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the expansion of Dutch colonial settlements in the Cape . … in wars between the Khoikhoi, San,…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… parties, the Nationalists and the SAP, entered into a coalition to deal with the economic problemsarising from the depression … could heal the breach. The…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… of political liberalisation and negotiations leading to the first democratic elections the South African Students … with general ideas of freedom and demands…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… 1906 The African National Congress (ANC) sends a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws … radical socialists and workers…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… The text that follows is a brief summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You can read far more detail by going to SAHO's TRC feature In an…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… of the Nazi Party, argued that the Germans was superior to all other races. Hitler became obsessed with 'racial … purity' and used the word 'Aryan' to…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… attends Clarkebury Boarding School, where he qualifies as a primary school teacher. 1911 After the government begins to make distinction between the…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their parents, to escape the … in 1910, my father had to go into the…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… Elizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan … an integral part of the Black Sash movement from the 1950s to today, when she…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… the old curriculum content, we have modified it slightly to fit the new curriculum but we will be further updating the … imperialism when they were taken…
ArticleTransport in the air
… Ancient stories tell of people's desire to fly like a bird. The Greek myth about Icarus and Daedalus … 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci designed an aircraft…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… 14 of 1859 is passed. This made it possible for the Colony to introduce Indians indentured labourers in Natal. 1860 … 1872 Law 12/1872 - made provision for…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… East India Company) in the Netherlands was set up in 1602 to trade. In 1647, the Haerlem, a Dutch trading ship, was shipwrecked in Table Bay. When the … back…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… and Non-White universities and tecknikons were merged to form new institutions. In January 2004, the historically … in Mpumalanga, and in Polokwane in…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… two very important elements of the economic development of a society, and the way they are used will influence how the … labour. Government policies over the…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… the three biggest Afrikaner monopolies. It was established to harness Afrikaner economic power at a time when the economy was dominated by English capital…
France in 1789
… What is revolution? Revolution literally means a turnaround or a complete somersault. It is used to describe periods or events that bring about dramatic …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… movement fought simultaneously on four fronts against a new wave of fascist measures that restricted education, … education”, the threatened extension of the…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… University partnership project Abstract Inanda Seminary, a private all-girls missionary school, played a pivotal role in the education of Black South African…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… The government and the African National Congress agree on a common commitment towards the resolution of the existing … violence and intimidation from…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… were established at the Cape, patterns of exclusion began to emerge as settlers drew imagined and physical boundaries … One of the earliest proposals by the…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Marks) region, Transkei (now Eastern Cape), South Africa, to Gilbert and Mary. He is the fifth of six children. 1950 Enrols in the Roman Catholic school (he…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… throughout apartheid. The South African government needed to rely on the external community for certain products and as a market for South African products…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… the Afrikaans Commercial Institute) was formed during WWII to create Afrikaner businesses and represent their interests in a period when Afrikaners were…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with Rhodes to try to develop and promote the British Empire in South … Transvaal or SAR developed. The Cape…