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Grade 6 term 1 classroom support
… A ACTIVITY PLANNING OVERVIEW Subjects covered: English, History (social sciences), Connecting Classroom themes: … 3. Describe the society – rich…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… INTRODUCTION In examining the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) since its establishment in … May 1987, and one outside the Witwatersrand Command of the SADF…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the Atlantic … that he caused great inflation lasting a…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… is represented in parliament. This feature focuses on the history of the PAC’s contribution to the struggle against … " outlines the chronological events in…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… shelled Voortrekkerhoogte, the Headquarters of the racist SADF with, according to reports, 122mm rockets. This is the … Voortrekkerhoogte, may prove to be as…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… is why this period was so important in South African history and how it fits into the general historical context. … in October 1990 that South African…
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… mass uprising in townships under the brutal control of the SADF and the SAP. On American and European television, this … the cruel deeds in KwaZulu-Natal…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… Dadoo in 2009, SAHO is, as part of its rewriting of the history of the liberation movement, updating its material on … impulses of the time that might have…
The oldest forms of human communication
… the printed word can be misleading. For example, certain history books taught, inaccurately, that Africans arrived in … them as 'primitive', and paid very…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… accompanied by a renewed effort to write and document the history of the resistance against apartheid and colonialism. … be lost forever and their stories…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… the other commando – a community-based reserve unit of the SADF whose main task was district protection; functioning …
SAAAH: “Reception / Perception”
… problematises issues surrounding the discipline of art history and art criticism, the latter being a field still … A panel discussion on changes in the…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Although trade unions had a presence throughout the modern history of South Africa, Black trade unions never managed to … and Canning Workers Union, one of…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… and the room hushed. In his hand he had an official history book which he held by one corner and he was slowly … intervention, I was conscripted into the…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE - CLICK HERE The Wits History Workshop, the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and South African History…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… South African History Online believes that history is made every day and to that effect we have compiled … representation of women in leadership for the…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the history of women…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… played a significant role in every key moment in the history of the movement, until his death. Oliver Tambo is a … by the apartheid regime's South African…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of South Africa in 1652. The history of the church has been very much bound with the … to pray under, one umbrella, thus making…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… is most notable for being the shortest war in recorded history, lasting less than three-quarters of an hour. The … in 1963. Endnotes [i] Knappert, J. (1992)…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's history in the last sixty years. Many of them were linked to … the authors themselves. The stories…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… use of technology or reflect important stages in human history. A place where humans settled and used the land in a … World Heritage Sites must show major…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… ask different questions about the past. Knowledge of history grows and broadens as more archaeologists find … school students in South Africa only learnt…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… authenticity has not been challenged, a message from the SADF military intelligence chief, General C. P Van der … 20 CCB members, and probably many more,…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… passionate about folk music traditions as well as the history and culture of the Zulu nation , which explains his …
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… racism. While writing this collection, Serote studied the history of racism and oppression around the world. “I was … joy and peace [14] Serote described…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, … forward to help us develop a more complex picture of the history of the groups and…
SAAAH Conferences
… Carman Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history Dr Karl Koperski …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… anti-Semitism, and discrimination. The millennia-long history of “social isolation, curtailment of opportunities, … Photograph by Eli Weinberg. Permission:…
Address to Extraordinary Summit of the World Economic Forum 21 June 2003
… had eroded the myth that the South African Defence Force (SADF) was invincible. This myth was resoundingly crushed by the humiliating defeat of the SADF in…