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EventFirst celebration of International Women's Day
… as the historic 1956 anti-pass march by thousands of South African women. Visit our feature 'History of Women's struggle … ' for further information about…
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… 1910s, a paraiah in the land of their birth as Black or African people. Why do institutions of Higher learning … take on the search for an alternative non…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… the first workers' cooperative in the history of the South African Labour Movement. This paper will examine the process … These two features made this…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… of Democrats. My efforts turned now to the banished African people, for in addition to bans there was another … except by permission. The effect of this Act…
The strangulation of activity
… the banning of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the African National Congress (ANC). On the 8 April 1960 these … consisted of the ANC, Coloured People's…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… two million years old hominid fossils. Human Origins South African scientists have been actively involved in the study … highest civilian award. Because of…
PlacePretoria Art Museum
… artists to the City. Her donations also included South African works by artists such as Pieter Wenning, Frans … artists to the City. Her donations also…
PlaceFunda Community College
… network into the visual arts sector for young Black South African artists. Charles Nkosi (image by Oupa Nkosi) Image …
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African photographer ponders how it is possible to be decent …
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
… say he was the face of the company in its coverage of the African story. Juda was a smart dresser, taking pride in …
Nelson Mandela University presenting AEE REP qualification programme
… the sole approved training partner for the Southern African region of the AEE, the Faculty of Engineering, Built …
PlaceRooipoort Nature Reserve, Kimberley
… reserves in the country and was declared the 4th South African Natural Heritage Site in 1985. It is situated at the …
Insurrections III: The Storming
… at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. It is …
PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… Cellar and these are both decorated with famous South African Artists, work! The land was sub-divided after the …
PlaceFort Wonderboompoort, Wonderboom-Pretoria
… the Voortrekker Monument, the Telkom tower, and the South African Reserve Bank. The fort’s roof is destroyed and walls …
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… It was awarded a Merit Aaward by the Institute of South African Architects in the early eighties. Above the Garage …
ArticleHow to undertake research?
… South African History Online (SAHO) believes in empowering …
Document 57 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 13 January 1936
… in which the problems affecting the revolution in South African be discussed. We feel, however, the need that …
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… new areas set aside solely for Black occupation. Second, African farm labourers made up the largest number of forcibly …
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… conflict between White settlers moving Northwards and African pastoralists and refugees from the Mfecane moving …
58. Congress has sold our rights
… and Bridglal Pachai Moonsamy Naidoo charged that the South African Indian Congress consisted of a few wealthy …
PlaceVryburg, Bophirima Region
… in the conflict between the British Empire and the South African Republic. Interestingly, and a complete aside, the …
EventCiskei is granted 'independence'
… Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by …
EventSA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli's chance of Rectorship
… and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the South African Government for Albert Luthuli to leave Natal and be …
EventJazz Musician, Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee, dies
… Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (54), South African jazz musician who played with Abdullah Ibrahim (also …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… historical documents), the Grey Collection, at the South African Library in Cape Town. Their collection, started in …
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… at the monument. The name “Pretoria” and rewriting South African history After the 1994 elections South Africa’s new …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… was meant to dislodge the two groups from an alliance with African nationalists and other anti-Apartheid forces that …
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… labour prohibited from 1 July. October, The South African Indian Committee (SAIC) is formed with the aim of …
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… oppression and conflict, in order to found a new South African nation whose watchwords are Unity Peace And … en Afrikaner;San en Xhosa;Keurling, Blanke,…