SAHO global search
27,900 records
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The … the House of Assembly is not calculated to give…
Fenuel Mogatusi
… July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was held was undisclosed but he was reportedly arrested on charges of theft after…
Writer’s of The Constitution
… President Thabo Mbeki addresses the nation at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town Constitutional Assembly After the … Negotiating Process (MPNP) had…
Speech at the state banquet held in honour of Prime Minister Ramgoolam of the Republic of Mauritius
… Speech at the state banquet held in honour of Prime Minister Ramgoolam of the Republic of Mauritius …
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada
… Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada …
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… Claremont, a Suburb in Cape Town , is situated North of Kenilworth , East of Bishopscourt and South of Newlands in … Claremont. Prior to forced removals…
Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
… One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois", Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935 ……
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as … despite their constituting over 75% of the…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as … despite their constituting over 75% of the…
Durban listing of mayors
… This list is listed in chronological order, listing mayors of Durban, starting from 1854 to date . Dr. John … Durban listing of mayors …
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the 26th assembly of OAU Heads of State and government
… Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the 26th assembly of OAU Heads of State and government …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… In 1990, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), African National … Alliance). COSATU has been involved in the liberation of the country and has…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… *Note: The focus of this biography is on Gandhi's life and times in South … 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. He was the last child of Karamchand Gandhi,…
BiographySatyandranath “Mac” Maharaj
… Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of Newcastle, Natal. He matriculated … in Johannesburg…
BiographyAmy Thornton
… sixteen years old. She worked with the Communist Party of South Africa (now known as the South African Communist … the Springbok Legion , a progressive…
BiographyJameson Gilbert Coka
… born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a sharecropper. He won a bursary to Adams College, where … worked with Ballinger for some time…
BiographyJohn Stephen Gomas
… near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced mother,he completed most of his school before moving with his mother to the Malay Camp …
BiographyAndimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo
… teacher at St. Mary’s Mission School at Odibo. He was part of the Native Military Corps for the South African Defence … and trade unionists. He became the…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact … was launched by African people in response to their loss of…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the times of apartheid,…
ArchiveNotes on the History of Parliamentary Franchise in Southern Africa: Fact Paper presented by Western Cape Region at the Black Sash National Conference 1975
… Notes on the History of Parliamentary Franchise in Southern Africa- Fact Paper … vote, Franchise qualifications for Blacks, High Court of Parliament Act,…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… While on a choir trip to the United States (US) Institute of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) with the help of Bishop Henry Turner, she decides…
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… EXHIBITION AND CATALOGUE purport to mark the centenary of the founding of the South African Society of Artists (SASA) in 1902, it is actually the Society's ……
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 6 - … about the 1946 African mineworkers' strike: "Appears natives were misled by…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… anthem and a flag, and significantly adopting the Bill of Rights. Another significant development was the formation … Commission to investigate the pass law…
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
… in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan … superintendent until 1950. He became a…
BiographyChris van Wyk
… before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb about 8km west of the Johannesburg, surrounded by dusty mine dumps. At the … designated as a Coloured township under…
BiographyZainunnisa “Cissie” Gool
… Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female political … the prominent politician, Dr…
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… to six months' imprisonment each for their leadership of the Passive Resistance Movement. The following is the … police rule in the case of the Africans and…
BiographyNtsikelelo Magwanya
… Ntsikelelo Magwanya, aged 41, a resident of Peelton Location, Zwelitsha District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] was accused of hampering the Acting…