SAHO global search
22,820 records
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… struggle for freedom from oppression, for community rights and, importantly, for gender equality, was largely ignored in … discovery of minerals (diamonds in…
Chapter 2
… land had been taken;the Europeans had come to settle and had become part of the population of South Africa. They … replaced barter;labour on white farms, in…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… TK: So com, could you tell us about your history and how you came into the struggle? Harry Gwala: Well, my … Hanover. I remember in winter, you know, my…
PlaceKeetmanshoop
… very quickly with its new status as a Railway Junction and the Military and Administrative Capital, for the South. Consequently, the … Church was made…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… subject have adequately covered some aspects of the life and activities of the community such as personalities, … Colony, however (following the discovery of…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… Inscribed to NELM by Don Mattera Signed by Mafika Gwala and James Matthews]. 821. 008 EXI [Record ID:5582] 2. Gunner, … -- Fugard, Athol -- Manaka, Matsemela…
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
… close. Vote of thanks First a word of thanks. For myself, and on behalf of the new Executive you have just elected, we … task coming so soon after the…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… Rustenburg point to deprivation throughout the segregation and apartheid period. In 1952 Drum magazine's Henry Nxumalo … extremely brutal conditions. He…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… shall succeed in dealing with the subject with objectivity and with an understandable emphasis on the African viewpoint and interpretation of political…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the Dutch in 1652, and…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… whom Timol had been arrested, said he had been assaulted and tortured so badly in custody that he had to be … yet wherever you look it is our sweat which…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… (ANC), Africans from different political spectrums and from all sections of South Africa convene at Community … draft comprehensive resolutions on African…
The South African Congress of Trade Unions
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner Anyway all this time I was still working with the Food and Canning Workers'…
Chapter 24. Sack All Non-Europeans
… agreement for the industry was about to terminate in July and, in March the union submitted the following demands for a … increase of five per cent in the…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… HIV viral variant known as HIV-2 is found in West Africa and alleged to have transferred to humans from sooty mangabey … Horwitz of The Barbara Ann Karmanos…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… 885/63. Ten Years on Robben Island Although banned and house arrested after his release from Robben Island in … to the National Union of South African…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is … as Chief of Groutville Ghananian educator, J. E. G. Gold Aggrey visits South Africa…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck … as apartheid). After the discovery of…
Zulu Community
… 'Bantusans' denied Zulu people South African citizenship and attempted to confine them to the nominally self-governing … that there are more than 45 million…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… M. Kotane , Mr. C. C. Palsania, Mr. J. Gomas , Mr. S. Kahn and the representatives of other organisations. A reception … the land in the Transvaal which had…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… on South Africa. His style has been compared to Kafka and Beckett. He is best known for novels such as the Life and Time of Michael K , Waiting for the…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… 1 , this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty … systems have been under severe strain…
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… call of the National Action Council for a three day strike and the wonderful work done by our organisers and field workers throughout the country proves once…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
… should be free to follow the dictates of his own reason and conscience. At that Annual Conference the Executive … in a body. They consisted of some of the…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg Joy of Jazz…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a … Listening through that half-century of disks,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to a joint sitting of both houses of the parliament of Lesotho Maseru, 12 July 1995
… Members of Parliament; Distinguished Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. I am honoured to stand here before you, the … have fought the same enemies, mourned our…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd … passed at 6th National Unity Conference, Cape…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… issues of governance, a rise in opposition rhetoric, and a president and ANC under fire have all coalesced in the National … had been guilty of theft. Her…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… It is once more my pleasant duty to address the delegates and visitors to the Conference of the All African Convention, … looks to this Conference of the A.A…