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ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… was a decade which became a turning point in South African history. Popular protest by masses of ordinary South Africans …
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations, peoples and states. Consider the case … orderly progress and prosper as an…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… as a hundred years. The black race pharaohs in Egyptian history were actually Nubian or Sudanese kings. The two … East Africa. This information was useful…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… Prehistory of the Region Pre-history of Southern Africa Africans who worked with copper … pottery characterised early Fokeng settlements ( see pre-history of…
Kingdoms of southern Africa: Thulamela
… questions are still unanswered because there is no written history from the inhabitants of the kingdom, and because its oral history seems to have…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… (2011) Bibliography Anon, 2011. Letta Mbulu. South African History Online. Available at: … 20, 2016]. Anon, 2011. Hugh Masekela. South African History Online…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Southeastern cluster. According to well-established oral history, these people were BaFokeng. Although the climate was … Johannesburg area during the last…
South African Constitution 1996
… on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in this country. The …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… country around the world. This feature deals with the history of the international anti-Apartheid movement. …
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… included similarly influenced campaigns in South African history. Non violent mass campaigns forged a new form of …
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
… in time, which archaeologists can study to understand our history. Ships have had an immeasurable impact on how we live … ships is important when trying to…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… is. They say they actually feel the vibration of the rich history that fills these walls. I have given 19 years of my … Museum in Simon’s Town is a treasure…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… it today is deeply informed by two vital documents in the history of fight for human justice: the Universal Declaration … for equality and justice to have…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… Moor Park type first developed in KwaZulu-Natal ( see pre history of Durban ). Using this pattern, Ndebele specifically … near the hill Ntsuanatsatsi in the…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… Written documents are very important sources of history. Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can … people thought that something could only be…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… 134. ↵ [25] Ibid., 135, 138. ↵ [26] South African History Online, “Diplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is Bombed,” South African History Online,…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… students are expelled. Tiro eventually gets a job as a history teacher at Morris Isaacson School in Soweto, but is … many students being killed by the South…
ArticleThe missionaries
… by missionaries. Well-known leaders in South African history such as Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Mangaliso Robert … education from mission schools. As the…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… of its kind in South Africa; census taking has a long history dating back to the 18th century. Census surveys were … other things. The 1996 census was path…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… and 1933. It was the worst economic disaster in American history. Farm prices fell so drastically that many farmers … Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only…
BiographyRick Turner
… strangleholds within which they had been locked by a long history of oppression. But the BC intervention was clouded by …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… the significance of Dinizulu and his place in Zulu history. Dube publicised Dinizulu's arrest. The Natal … 22 November 2011]|Giliomee, H & Mbenga, B., (2007)…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… black dispossession - it is impossible to discuss the history of women's suffrage in South Africa without becoming … to four in 1915. A few legislators in…
Speech by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande at SAHO Graduate Internship Programme launch, 30 October, 2012
… Launch SA History Online Internship Project. We have been giving lots … those involved in a largely intellectual pursuit such as History. In this…
Links & Partnerships
… (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no longer working or … - This website is a joint project between…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new democratic order. The …
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
… South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in 1985. South African History Online (SAHO) is marking this anniversary by: … with the Durban University of Technology …
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to ANC-business summit 30 March 1994
… some of the most dramatic developments in our political history. There was the uprising in Bophuthatswana, the events … The revelations about co-operation…
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to ANC-Business Summit 30 March 1994
… some of the most dramatic developments in our political history. There was the uprising in Bophuthatswana, the events … The revelations about co-operation…
Articlehoz tab example
… “Towards a People’s History…” South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people's history project concerned with the presentation of a …