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Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
… (Pawusa); SA State and Allied Workers Union (Sasawu); SA Football Players Union (Safpu) and a section of the municipal …
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of the liberation forces in South Africa. Nothing in the history of the liberation movement in South Africa quite … constituted the most representative…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… on the Xhosa communities in Port Elizabeth. However, the history of these communities is inextricably linked to the pre-colonial history, colonial history…
Article1956 Women Marchers
… Albertina and Walter Sisulu Foundation and South African History Online to gather the names and stories of the 20.000 …
ArticleHuman evolution
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid …
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the ethnic and racial terms that have been used to …
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… [14] Photographs have an intimate relationship with history. Walter Benjamin wrote, "photographs become standard … [15] Photography in many ways is the first…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… Vuren, Lani. “Buchuberg: Built on the Backs of Men”, Water History, (Vol 8), (No. 2), (2009), 27. ↵ [9]Van Vuren, Lani. “Buchuberg: Built on the Backs of Men…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events, from … and progressive artistic community. The…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… our article ‘ Defining culture, heritage and identity .' History of Heritage Day In KwaZulu-Natal, 24 September has … of National Heritage Day (article)…
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… South African History Online (SAHO) is hosting an intergenerational …
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… South African war, will start here again. The town has a history steeped in bloody relations between the Afrikaners …
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… When Risquet quoted Castro’s assertion that “the history of Africa will be written as before and after Cuito … It is a paradox that the place where Southern…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… it happened she fell in love - with a highly unsuitable, football-playing man-about - town, Gus Tholo. In order to … a new attitude in the schools,…
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
… above Observatory, or play cricket in the street, or football, or find a field where we could pretend to be … we started playing rugby when the school…
ArticleContemporary South African Artists
… the month of August 2016, in honor of women, South Africa History Online (SAHO) began collaborating with Artthrob in an …
Grade 9 Archive
… it is important to avoid simple answers to complex history. The Holocaust raises difficult questions about human …
Cecile Mella
… in the south of France in 1983. After studying literature, history and philosophy, she switched to film studies and …
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… and was the first ever national strike in the country’s history. In particular, the African work force in the Cape … has been seen by some as a turning…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… ↵ [iv] http://www.polokwanecity.co.za/history-of-zion-christian-church-zcc/ ↵ [v] … ↵ [vi] www.sowetanlive.co.za/goodlife/2012/07/31/history-of-zion…
Mandela: Message to India
… South African History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 [ On … to signify the beginning of the new era in Indian history - and the beginning of…
ArticleThe Nile river and its influence on settlement
… of Egyptian civilization, that we cannot separate the history of Egypt from its geography and other natural … that would otherwise be arid desert. Since…
Chapter X - Final word
… In this book I have tried to open some windows onto the history of the liberation struggle. I could not open them … For thirty years it has grown three feet…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… of what we were doing. The congress was to be held on a football ground in Kliptown outside Johannesburg, adjacent to … police went away. Soon the site of…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… public by tracing it within the country’s publication history. Publication history includes texts that were published, the presses that … but also includes…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
… rivalry was called the Cold War . The content of the new history curriculum is structured to help us to understand the …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 1: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… This topic describes the history of the southern African kingdoms of Mapungubwe, …
ArticleProvincial histories
… The different provinces each have their own special history and each one contributes to making South Africa the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… the call which sees the largest strike in South African history. June, Two car bomb attacks in Johannesburg by the MK … of Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard and the…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… question the methods entailed in rewriting or reclaiming history. Mnyele and the cultural collective he was allied to, … making. Art institutions are also…