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EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national uprising took…
EventA South African spy is released from jail
Location: back to this day in history search archive Odile Harrington, a South African convicted and imprisoned for espionage in Zimbabwe in 1987, was…
EventNelson Mandela is free
On this day, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison after 27 years. Accompanied by his then-wife Winnie, he left the Victor Verster prison …
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in the Free State. She studied medicine at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand and became a missionary…
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
Deutsch-Südwestafrika (German South West Africa), established its capitol at Otjimbingwe in 1885, then at Windhuk in 1891. It covered the core of what is…
EventPresident. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency
On 7 June 1990, former South African President, F W de Klerk, announced the end of South Africa’s four year old state of emergency. Immediately after that, he…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in Mitchells Plain…
Document 4 - “The Great Native Strike”, “ The International, 27 February 1920
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 4 - "The Great Native Strike", " The…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
This period began with the intensification of the anti-pass campaign, which resulted in the banning of the ANC and the PAC following the Sharpeville Massacre…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
Volkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, and one of the three biggest Afrikaner monopolies. It was established to harness…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
Legal instruments through legislation, resolutions, proclamations and ordinances played a key role in legitimizing systematic land dispossession and…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative Abstract This paper addresses the falsity of the cultural discourse…
PlaceKings Park Stadium, Durban
The Stadium is a Home for Sharks Rugby team. It is also open for external hire through the Stadium's manager. 10am till 4pm, Monday to Friday 10am till 12:30…
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
In the heart of Cape Town lies the beautiful Wynberg Park! This spans over an area of 22 square kilometres and showcases some of the Western Cape Vegetation,…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in April 1989, and attended by 49 delegates, was the highest…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
A few months after the first formal ANC-SACP meeting in exile, in June 1970, the Party organised its first augmented CC meeting in Moscow, along the lines the…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU The formation of a trade union federation based on the African…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
GUNS AND GALLOWS In outward appearance South Africa is a calm, peaceful land, spacious and sunny; its peoples-Black, White and Coloured-are fundamentally…
PlaceElands Bay, Western Cape Province
Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bobbejaan Mountain lies this hotspot for surfers around the world. Elands Bay is 95 km northwest of Piketberg and…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was synchronized to the grid on 4 April 1984, with Unit 2 following suit on 25 July 1985. It is situated at…
PlaceKhomani Cultural Landscape
The area in the Southern Kalahari, bordered in the East by Botswana and the West by Namibia, is where you will find a small group of the Khomani San a people…
PlaceGanyesa
The massive North West Province of South Africa is home to Ganyesa, which is formally part of the Kagisano / Molopo Municipality. This is a rural Village that…
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
Since the 1820’s there was a strong move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Town Hall was built in 1882 in Market…
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
Khoisan traditional leader, Oom Dawid Kruiper, was buried during a state funeral in Andriesvale in the Kalahari despite concerns from traditional Koisan…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country's history, 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to…
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
The historic multi-racial convention called The Congress of the People started in Kliptown, near Johannesburg. The proposition for this form of gathering came…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
A week long strike by African mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was…
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
The aim of The Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was to be a national umbrella organisation that could coordinate the movements of Black trade…
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
On 30 July 1987, a car bomb was detonated outside the headquarters of Witwatersrand Command army base in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. The attack was executed…