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ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… proletraisation process in his book, Satyagraha in South Africa, I n order to increase the Negro's wants or to teach …
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… Monument is located just South of Pretoria, in South Africa. This massive granite Structure is prominently located … vir Jou, Suid-Afrika' (Afrikaans for 'Us…
Pedi
… Northern Sotho, or Sesotho sa Leboa, is one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, and consists of up to 30 … Sepedi is mainly spoken in the northern parts…
EventArtist William Cornwallis Harris starts his expedition from Cape Town to the Western Transvaal and the Magaliesburg Mountain
… talent when he embarked on an expedition to southern Africa. He arrived in Cape Town in June 1836, suffering from … Harris produced several watercolour…
Articlehoz tab example
… a critical, open access, and democratic history of South Africa. It was founded by Omar Badsha and registered as a … was established to address the biased…
BiographyElijah H. Mdolomba
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - 1964. …
PlaceLesotho
… and Agricultural Industries and is the source of South Africa’s two largest Rivers—the Eastward-flowing Tugela and … for work prospects, to a neighbouring…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… proclaiming that "winds of change" were sweeping through Africa. The week before Macmillan's speech, African women … The PAC was guiding Africans toward the…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… . AFAR was later renamed the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) to support freedom struggles all over Africa and to press the United States Government to…
Independent Electoral Commission
… Residents of Soweto queue up to cast their votes in South Africa's third democratic elections April 2004 VISION … Constitution to promote and safeguard…
Links & Partnerships
… of his photographic work. Popular Education South Africa - This site is concerned with popular education in … African History Websites Anti-Apartheid and…
PlaceState Theatre, Pretoria
… of the Performing Arts, in all spheres in South Africa. The Theatre today plays a leading role in the … as a passion for welcoming audiences, from across…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner, Miriam. Am I … Helen. A Taste of Freedom: The ICU in Rural…
Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
… sincere sentiments of friendship of the people of South Africa. In all humility, I thank you for the possibility you … it is possible to build that better…
BiographyNicolaas Cornelius Carstens
Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six…
BiographyLeng Dixon
Leng Dixon was born in 1916 in Cape Town. He joined the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period…
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
Isaac Zakes Nkosi, known to his fans as Bra Zakes, was born in Alexandra Township early in 1919. He started his schooling in Alexandra at a Catholic primary…
BiographyClive Zamani Xaba
Clive Zamani Xaba was born in 1980, Durban. Xaba attended the Saturday morning art classes run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he…
BiographyJerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
Born in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in Germiston…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… celebrated as Women's Day, and it is now, in the new South Africa, commemorated each year as a national holiday. Passes …
BiographyAlcott Skei Gwentshe
Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe played a key role in…
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
Justice "Gizenga" Mpanza was born on 5 September 1937 at Groutville Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to…
BiographyAhmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
Ahmed Essop "Quarter" Khota, was born on 5 July 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
John O'Malley was born on 6 October 1922 in what was then called Robert Heights, later Voortrekkerhoogte, in Pretoria. His father was a colonel in the army and…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… and better organised on the Rand than here else in Africa. More and more workers are employed in factories, and … industries, or repair shops for the mines…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… titled Sleeping giant is stirring: Farmworkers in South Africa , the farmworker population in the Western Cape make up the highest number of workers in South…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of rural South Africa designated as "Scheduled Native Areas”. The Native … political dispensation embodied in the…
Bibliographical Data
… interviews conÂducted by them inside and outside South Africa. The documents, of which only a small proportion are … the Bantu World, Imvo Zabantsundu …
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… O.R., `Statement by the African National Congress of South Africa on the Invasion of Angola by South African Troops', … Others, Case No. CC 108/76, in the…
OAU-AU 50th Anniversary Lecture by ANC President Jacob Zuma East London, 26 October 2013
… the 96th birthday of one of the most distinguished sons of Africa, the late former President of the ANC, Isithwalandwe … that would mark a turning point in…