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Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… has created and worked in groups that encourage writing of history so that it is not forgotten or repeated. These groups … He ensures that South Africans and…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… person. The heritage trail in this section of your Grade 5 history takes us to places in different parts of South Africa … iconic Table Mountain, the area…
Khoisan Identity
… first official recognitions of Khoisan communities in the history of modern South Africa. In a similar way to that in … traditionally been marginalised…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… Sources: Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, … (eds.)(1973). From Protest to…
ArchiveIn honour of Com. I B Tabatas birthday on 10
… by Jane Gool on I B Tabata's birthday. Presents his life history and the history of the Unity Movement. …
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 …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… Remaking the Past: New Perspectives on South African History . Cape Town, UCT Press, 1986. Callinicos, Luli. We … 4, 1989, p 91. Davenport, T.R.H. South…
EventBeatles unbanned
… [1] Endnotes [1] The Beatles, http://www.southafrica.to/history/history1948.htm (8 April 2017). ↵ … The Beatles, https://www.southafrica.to/history…
List of Speakers: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa conference
… Archive, University of the Witwatersrand Moloi, Tshepo History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand Mthembi, …
ArticleFrontline States
… African economic complex and that the harsh fact of history and geography cannot be obliterated, for obvious …
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… Second World War . Beyond its military and architectural history, Matjiesfontein also became associated with several … that Matjiesfontein retain its unique…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… has mastered the art of incorporating different aspects of history, whether it is the social, economic, legal or … has truly impacted the manner in which…
PlaceBo-Kaap Museum
… Museum. This is the best place to discover the real history of the area and to get a glimpse into the life of a … was established in 1978, as a satellite of…
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… related to the conference theme. What role does the rich history of our country play in understanding where we are … and where does the story of the Mendi…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… under old NMC legislation on 18 May 1979. The Horrible History and many names of Thaba Tshwane; South Africans just … Narrative – the replacement of Black…
SAHO Milestones
… 2000 June - Registration of SAHO as an NGO South African History Online (SAHO) was established in 2000, as a … Kala Pani: Caste and Colour in South Africa…
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… South African war, will start here again. The Town has a History, steeped in bloody relations between the Afrikaners … and the African inhabitants of the…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… is a world-class, modern interactive museum of local rugby history that’s designed to entertain the whole family. The experience tells the history of South…
Claremont Histories Photographic Exhibition
… Areas Act. The event is co-sponsored by South African History Online and books published by South African History Online will be on sale as well. …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… South African World Heritage Sites Land dispossession history of South Africa 19th century South Africa South … Alan Paton writes "Cry the Beloved…
Article2016 in Review
… In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open … team who is pushing to give the most accurate and relevant history and to…
PlaceWakkerstroom
… and bustle of city life. Mpumalanga, is a town rich in History and natural beauty. Originally inhabited by the San … The Town has played a significant role…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… individuals from being selected into elite teams. History of Soccer in South Africa (sections on the sports … leader. For additional guidelines see our…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since the European … possession, language, forms of dress, a…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Introduction December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is … in 1994, December 16 continued to form part of…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… morning aged 95 left an indelible mark on the nation’s history. Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi dedicated his life to …
BiographyAlfred Milner
… to me to be an inherent feature of all historic growth. History writes the word “reconciliation” over all her … Newspapers Ltd, Carmelite House|Leonard…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading, comes into … and cultural elder. A colossus. He…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… Orange Free State Republics. In the encyclopaedia the 'New History of South Africa' (2007) the authors claim that the … May 1902, and it remains a powerful…
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… 29 August 1848’ from The South African Military History Society [online]. Available at www.samilitary.org [Accessed 22 August 2011] Voortrekker-History, 2011…