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Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… largest scale non-violent re sistance ever seen in South Africa and the first campaign pursued jointly by all racial …
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… has interested itself in developments throughout colonial Africa. CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION . The early part of this … as in the rest of the continent,…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… through re-structuring and mergers in Post-Apartheid South Africa, historically White and Non-White universities and … regions. TUT is the biggest contact…
The Origin of People
… Most people agree that the human family started in Africa and that the oldest skeletons of creatures like ourselves have been found in South Africa! Africa -…
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… of others crucial to an understanding of modern South Africa. The report supports the recommendation of the … that the crisis facing the teaching of History…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… The series premier centers on Student Activism in South Africa and the U.S, around 2015 - 2020. This episode … of 4 Part 3 of 4 Part 4 of 4 Lexicon Load…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… Pretorius Streets. Following the end of Apartheid in South Africa, there had been calls for the removal of the statue … the Statue requesting it to be left…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… aspect of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa had many different dimensions, and many different … Her work, researching Mozambique’s dependence on…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… struggle against racial oppression and exclusion in South Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle of … were leading members of the Communist…
ArticleEarly civilisations
… question. Evidence of these civilizations may be found in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The curriculum requires that … this topic into two sections, the…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… the Anti-Communist Law , the Bantu Authorities Act, South Africa is being made a fascist state. Forward to freedom 1952 … van Riebeeck, the first white…
The Battle of Square Hill
… [ix] On 9 February 1916 the recruits travelled to East Africa on board the Armardale Castle. Following their arrival … forged ahead, taking part in military…
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… Colony (now known as Eastern Cape). He was one of South Africa’s most distinguished nutritional scientists and … was the founding member and early president…
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… his predecessor as he saw the change in power in Southern Africa and was quick to offer cooperation with South Africa’s neighbours. Within the country…
ArticleHuman evolution
… years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest proof of hominids has been discovered. Fossil evidence in East Africa…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… The bust of Fernando Pessoa, a poet who lived in South Africa between 1895 and 1905 is defaced as it painted with … Mamadou Diawara, Bernard , Historical…
Vondela Landingwe
Vondela Landingwe played rugby for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the…
BiographyHyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu
Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended school in Catholic mission and then he went to study private to…
BiographyLucas Seage
Lucas Seage was born on 02 November 1956 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in…
BiographyCharles Kwelemthini Sakwe
Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe was born about 1886 in Idutywa in the Transkei and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the court…
BiographyVukile Ntuli
Ntuli was born in the uBombo district, northern Zululand. He received his primary school education at the Ndaleni Practising School, Richmond, at the Ndaleni…
BiographyCharles Makhohliso
Charles Makhohliso was born in 1918. As a trade unionist he was responsible for organising better conditions for brick workers. The Chairperson of the…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… the second half if the 19th Century, Indians came to South Africa in two categories, namely as indentured workers in … sugar plantations. The 'free' Indians…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… who played a great role in bringing injustices in South Africa to light. She is widely recognised for being the first … hold the position of Deputy Minister…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… During the war agricultural production in South Africa received a major stimulus as a result of increased …
ArticleAmbassador Lindiwe Mabuza and her connection with Scotland: An Appreciation by Brian Filling
… Born in South Africa in 1938, she spent much of her life in exile from apartheid South Africa at college in Lesotho, teaching in Swaziland, as a … the end of…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo was born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of…
BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
Allison George Champion was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American…
BiographyHarry Moyaga
Apart from interaction with artists such as Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.), Bill Ainslie and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… and brutal moments of popular violence that engulfed South Africa in the decade between 1984 and 1993. Beginning in … Townships, popular violence spread…