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Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… of workers' power in the decade. In Cape Town African workers launched, in the face of massive police … honestly and relentlessly pursued in the spirit of…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… collaboration that regulated apartheid planning in South African cities and regions. I first look at the colonial … of the Afrikaner and the place of the…
![Letter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/archive-files2/let19690815.032.009.743.thumb.gif?itok=6M3u975_)
ArchiveLetter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.
… Christian Movement by the President of the the South African Students Organisation Steve Biko …
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… from 1969, the year he assumed the presidency of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) , through to 1972, when …
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
… Africa, who fought on the side of the Allies. The South African force suffered approximately 9000 casualties and 14 … mainly of supplying troops, men and…
EventPeter Scott is born
… born on 27 November 1990 in Cape Town.[i] Peter is a South African alpine skier.[ii] His family immigrated to France … he began skiing.[iii] He formed part…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army'
… the idea of creating a Confederation of all Southern African territories, with a view to being appointed Governor … at a time when British colonial…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… at Saints in the 60s: “They didn’t want to discuss African things. They wanted to be like whites. They spoke English without much of an African accent.” I…
Archive1994 - President Mandela, State Of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994 (After National Elections)
… who transcended a particular experience and became a South African, an African and a citizen of the world. Her name is Ingrid Jonker. She was both a poet and…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… to Whitehall in 1909, to prevent the adoption of the South African Act, was an expression of black consciousness. I … of non-racialism? Or has it really…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… of South Africa put it, 'the economic workshop of the African Continent'1 Yet common sense as much as class … space of six or seven decades, hundreds of…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… July 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of the South African Communist Party (SACP): one of the first … of socialism in South Africa and internationally…
PlaceWakkerstroom
… in 1859. The Town has played a significant role in South African History, particularly during the Anglo-Zulu and … after the then-president of the South…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… that serves the interests and purposes of democracy. The African National Congress has in its ranks people who are …
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… that serves the interests and purposes of democracy. The African National Congress has in its ranks people who are …
David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
… writes in her introduction to Kith, Kin and Khaya: South African Photographs, “ David Goldblatt is a true misfit in …
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… Ceres experienced the most destructive earthquake in South African history.[i] The epicentre of the earthquake was …
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… favourable academic staff to student ratio among South African universities, Rhodes students are guaranteed easy …
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… will pursue publication of the essays in the South African Historical Journal . Contributors to the colloquium …
PlaceOttery
… that the investigation had been handed over to the South African Police Service. Commuters were evacuated and the …
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… the collapse of apartheid and the birth of a new South African democracy in the early 1990s. With South Africa …
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
… https://www.thesouthafrican.com/travel/7-south-african-towns-that-feel-like-europe-small-towns-south-africa/ …
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… in honour of Dr. C. Louis Leipoldt- (who was a South African doctor, journalist, and a leading poet of the Second … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceGabon
… helped, make Gabon one of the more prosperous sub-Saharan African countries. Gabon is Sub-Sahara's third largest …
Address by President at the official opening of the new bridge over the Limpopo River at Beit Bridge Beit Bridge, 24 November 1995
… from the tolls levied, part of this bridge is on South African soil and we therefore have a vested interest in it. …
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… The Labour government in Britain desperately needed South African gold and uranium. It agreed to bar Seretse Khama from … , [Accessed: 07 October 2013]|…
EventTutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities
… had been even-handed in its treatment of the NP and the African National Congress (ANC) submissions this week. He …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… British scorched earth policy also displaced thousand of African farmworkers and the British established 66 …
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… I got out. In spite of criticism I admit that the best African leaders - as the defiance campaign showed - were …
EventThe first large group of French Huguenots arrive at the Cape
… surnames survive. The Huguenots made a difference to South African society in another respect. Previously, the …