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Nelspruit the Segregated city
Contents Nelspruit the Segregated city Homelands as Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until the demise of apartheid, Nelspruit remained a small…
EventJan van Riebeeck is born
Founder of and first commander of Cape Town, Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck, was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands on 21 April 1619. An administrator for…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
AboutMission & ValuesProjectsEducation & InternshipsConferences & PublicationsCommunity & ExhibitionsMafika Gwala LectureTimelinePartners &…
PlaceUgie, Eastern Cape
Ugie is a Town in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Ugie is situated at the Southern foot of the Drakensberg,…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… Poqo activists leading to their subsequent arrest. 1 April, The British Colonial police raid PAC offices in … his release, Mandela requested a meeting with…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… as Simons and Simons, Ticktin, Sheridan Jones and Katz, 1 have attempted to improve our knowledge of such … and the standard books by Roux, Cope and Hamson 2…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… response to the Suppression of Communism Act and proclaim 1 May as Freedom Day, calling on all organisations to protest … Act. They are released on £100 bail…
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… A Tribute to Denis Goldberg Preface Foreword Chapter 1 A Marvellous Life! Denis Goldberg, South Africa and the World Chapter 2 Denis Goldberg and the Modern…
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
On 30 May 1899 President Paul Kruger and the British High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Alfred Milner, met at a conference in Bloemfontein to talk about…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to…
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
Shaun Thomson, an internationally recognized professional surfer, was born in Durban on 21 August 1955. He attended Clifton Preparatory School and Carmel…
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… The Citizen reported that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in South West Africa (Namibia) had …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe who would become a leader of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province …
PlaceWallacedene, Cape Town
Wallacedene is an Informal Housing Settlement in the Eastern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The Settlement was established during the 1980s when the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… of the victory of our struggle. - Oliver Tambo, July 1984 1 Introduction ‘[T]he people inside South Africa,’ ANC … own efforts; as a result of their reliance…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… Africa : ‘We’re not cleaners’- sexism in Sudan protests. (1 April 2019) BBC News. Available at: …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… how it laid the foundation for the system of Apartheid. [1] Author Unknown, “1913 Land Act”, Tshintsha Amakhaya, … were born as pariahs in the land of their…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… camps by the British forces during Anglo-Boer War 2 (1899-1902). The first two of these camps (refugee camps) … death of 4 177 women, 22 074 children under…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… and shoes, and often times were forced to do without. [1] This was in no way a reflection of her parents’ efforts, … for their family, but the cards were not…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… who just want to work to be able to feed their children. [1] -Archbishop Desmund Tutu The following article seeks to … the scant literature on photography in…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… inspired and sanctioned by the PAC. Accused number 1 Richard Motsoagae was implicated as the one who fired the … Court to be heard by a judge. It is here…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) amalgamated. [1] Opposition to the participation by the NIC in the … Colonial Born and Settlers Indian…
A Walk in the Night
… On 1 December 1834, the enslaved people of the Cape were legally … into the anniversary of the freedom of the slaves – 1 December. Date: Thursday, 30…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 431-2. …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national uprising took…
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
On 21 May 1991 the medical adviser to the government, Dr Wilson Carswell made the shocking announcement that 100 000 South Africans are infected with the Human…
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
This was the first such declaration of a State of Emergency by the Apartheid state. During these periods, the government had free reign to suspend civil…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
To the Student Movements of 2016 Dear Students, The events witnessed at the country’s tertiary education institutions this year would have been very…
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… years R15 SA Students and pensioners R15 Family Ticket (2 adults & 2 children) R75 Under 5’s enter for free …
EventAnnouncement of Hezekiel Sepeng's 2 years suspension
… Announcement of Hezekiel Sepeng's 2 years suspension …