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History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1932 Subsidies for Cape Muslim Primary Schools Du Plessis maintains that in 1931…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
Even We. Cartoon, David Marais. The Fight is on, Rev. Joost de Blank, Archbishop of Cape Town. The Widow of the Reserves, Phyllis Ntanala. Bethal Case-Book,…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
The Empty or Vacant Land Theory is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to land. Today…
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
Photography was only developed about 200 years ago and was viewed with suspicion as a creative outlet for much of that time. Yet it has developed a reputation…
ArchiveUntil the lions have their historians the tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. African proverb
Black and white poster. Quote in title. Artwork of a pyramid of men and books. Bother poster number 85. Produced by Young Oxfam.
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Bibliographical note and further reading African…
ArchiveWriters in the Community
A2 red and black on white; graphic people holding up books and flags; text: Writers for Freedom for Writers; COSAW; Writers in the Community
ArchiveBlack Theology Series
Pink poster with title in black letters. Coloured photos of three books by Desmond Tutu, Alan Boeksak and James H. Cone. List of forthcoming titles.
ArchiveLiteracy for all
Light grey background with orange writing and green border plus black and white image of two women with books on their head and a child
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
Shaka Zulu Legacy Essay questions on Shaka Zulu’s legacy will be asked as 8-mark questions where students have to use sources to answer the question. The…
AIDS awareness for school kids
The Macmillan Boleswa AidsAwareness. Programme has produced a package of 14 story books on AIDS for school children from standard four to rnatrlc as well as…
ArchiveNicaragua necesita tecnicos
Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a man and a woman reading books. Four circles representing four different occupations. Ministry of Education, program of…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
AboutMission & ValuesProjectsEducation & InternshipsConferences & PublicationsCommunity & ExhibitionsMafika Gwala LectureTimelinePartners &…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
South Africa has early human fossils at Sterkfontein and other sites. The first modern inhabitants of the country were the hunter-gatherer San (‘bushman’) and…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
When the African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912, it did not accept women as members. In 1918, the government threatened to reintroduce pass laws…
Workers of the world
Black, red and white poster. Artwork of a red circle in centre containing a man and a woman worker standing back to back. Advertisement for books on workers'…
ArchiveThe cost of apartheid
Cream, brown and green poster. SRC Projects Committee poster. Artwork of two bags of money and a pile of books. Special defence overspent by R140 million…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
The Mughals were a powerful Turkic-Mongol tribe that originated from Central Asia.[1] The Mughal Empire controlled most of Northern India from the 16th to the…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
From: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis Introduction Background to the project This book had its origins in…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
Read this characterization of a Slave from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He is in all respects the best of the household slaves. Without the…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
Unit 731. Sound familiar? Probably not. Until recently, I didn’t know what they were. Or what they did. Unit 731 was a Japanese military unit responsible for…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the 23rd Africa Regional Conference of the Food and Agricultre Organisation: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 4 March 2004
The Director-General of FAO, Dr Jacques Diouf, The Independent Chair of Council, Mr Aziz Mekour, Honourable Ministers, Your Excellencies, Members of the…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Conference presidential Address held at Grahamstown, 1981
Opening Address by National President Joyce Harris at the Black Sash National Conference held at Grahamstown on 13 March 1981, discussing: Total Onslaught,…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
Built in 1926, the aging steam ship was pressed into service as a troop transport by the Royal Navy and had already carried thousands allied of troops to…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
The South African Students Movement (SASM) an organisation of mainly high school students was formed to represent students, articulate grievances and foster…
EventAfrikaans linguist H J Terblanche is born
Dr Hendrik Josephus Terblanche, compiler of several dictionaries and grammar books, is born in Aberdeen in the Eastern Cape. Dr Terblanche was a pioneer of…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new leadership had long been urging closer…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
This article was written by Jarvis Pruitt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project In order to stand up straight,…