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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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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'…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
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BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Claremont Histories Photographic Exhibition
Claremont Histories will host a photo exhibit showcasing some of the stories and photographs of people forcibly removed from Claremont and Harfield under the…
ArchiveNatives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act, Act No 67 of 1952
The Act was to repeal the laws relating to carrying passes by natives; to provide for the issue of reference books to natives; to amend the Native…
EventPeter Becker dies
Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historicl books on African people and their customs, died instantly after being hit by a car outside…
ArticleMafika Gwala School Debate Contest 2020
Between: Team - Ukusa High School (Hammarsdale) VS Team - Umvuzo High School (Pietermaritzburg) Topic One: Government should make South African History…