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ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
1919 Mohamed Kathrada and his wife Hawa, immigrants from India, arrive in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng), where they…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
Prehistory of Southern Africa Two places are of particular heritage interest in the Polokwane area: the BaKoni Malapa Museum south of the stadium and…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
The ‘Cape Malay’ community is rich in culture and religious traditions that have played a major role in shaping the history and diversity of Cape Town. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
The Portuguese begin mapping and exploring the South African coastline and basic trading takes place between the Khoikhoi and the Europeans. Nguni and Sotho…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
"Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising that is also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt. It occurred during a period of economic depression…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
Present day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century,…
South African Labour history
There are different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining industry has often been told as the…
First Matabele War
In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became premier of South Africa with the support of the Afrikaner Bond. Rhodes' grand imperial vision for a British Africa included…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
In all countries where market-assisted land reforms have been undertaken, the outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such…
TCOE Online Exhibition
Photo-documentary Exhibition and Land dispossession history The text and gallery of images within this feature are concerned with the crucial issue of land…
Liberation
"We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world to know. We are the people who have borne the…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
Control: 1910 - 1948
Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been achieved. Other than a small, enfranchised minority who owned land,…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
"They strongly insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... They asked if they would be…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and…
Amersfoort Legacy: A history through pictures
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
± 1000 BCE (Pre-colonial) Late Stone Age people (San/Tsam//Xam) teach their children how to hunt and gather food, skin animals, prepare and cook food and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
In this period early African political organisations were formed; these organisations precipitated the formation of the African National Congress. 1866 …
ArticleANC Origins and Background
The African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912 as a result of many grievances. This included black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
1971 11 March, A resolution is passed at a student body meeting for the establishment of a student Wages Commission. David Hemson, Halton Cheadle, David…
ArticleBrazil - Russia - India - China - South Africa (BRICS)
BRICS is an acronym that refers to the grouping of five major emerging economies in the world: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This grouping…
ArticleTrevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA IN THE HIGH COURT OF…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2020 submissions
Claire Albin Claire Albin is a sophomore at Southern Methodist University originally from Shreveport, Louisiana. She is currently studying Marketing…
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…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues
A Luta Continua Dialogues: The Struggle Continues is an international dialogue series, bringing together Black and Indigenous activists, community workers,…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the…
Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
In Kadzamira Modjadji’s MatieMedia newspaper article about Fees Must Fall he quoted students who described the movement as revolutionary since protests against…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial rule over Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast in the late…