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PlaceSonderwaterkraal
… elevation above seal level is 407 metres. Approximately 1,118 km South-West of Pretoria, the country's capital. The …
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
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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…
ArchiveWho was Albert Luthuli? The murdered South African leader who put his people above himself
South African liberation leader Albert Luthuli died on 21 July 1967 near his home in Groutville, in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. A government…
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…
Koleka Putuma: part of the Ibuyambo Book Festival 2026
An award-winning poet and cultural force, Koleka will join the panel Marketing the Author & Their Work — a critical conversation on ownership, visibility,…
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EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia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 …
ArticleBiography 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…
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…
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…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone died
… [Accessed on 2 April 2015] …
EventTshwane Metro's 5th anniversary celebrations held at Church Square
On 21 January 2006, approximately ten thousand residents of Pretoria attended Tshwane Metro's 5th anniversary celebrations. Held in Church Square in Pretoria's…
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…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
Joshua Richman Joshua Richman is a final year English and Politics student at the University of York. From October 2015, he will read Law at Hughes Hall,…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… similar pay raises to those won by the Lonmin miners. 1 October, The Marikana Commission of Inquiry into the 16 …
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
Together with the Rand Daily Mail, the Daily Dispatch was one of the loudest mouthpieces for mainstream liberal critique of the Apartheid government and its…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… The meeting proposed a one-day stay-away on May Day (1 May) to protest the banning of communist leaders. Many ANC … Campaign. They stood trial and are found…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… to ownership of 7% of South Africa’s land. Section 1, sub section ‘a’ of the Act states, “a native shall not … them to far flung areas such as townships…
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… in Film and Literature.” South African History Journal. 48.1. (2003): 35-46. Web. 18th November 2014. … of Cry, the Beloved Country.” English in Africa. 25.2…