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ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… and 1933. It was the worst economic disaster in American history. Farm prices fell so drastically that many farmers … Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only…
BiographyRick Turner
… strangleholds within which they had been locked by a long history of oppression. But the BC intervention was clouded by …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… the significance of Dinizulu and his place in Zulu history. Dube publicised Dinizulu's arrest. The Natal … 22 November 2011]|Giliomee, H & Mbenga, B., (2007)…
Speech by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande at SAHO Graduate Internship Programme launch, 30 October, 2012
… Launch SA History Online Internship Project. We have been giving lots … those involved in a largely intellectual pursuit such as History. In this…
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 …
Links & Partnerships
… (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no longer working or … - This website is a joint project between…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new democratic order. The …
Articlehoz tab example
… “Towards a People’s History…” South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people's history project concerned with the presentation of a …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Bibliography
… Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo. Journal of African History, Volume 29 : 487-519, 1988. Cobbing, Julian. Ousting … Steven Feierman, Leonard Thompson and…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… of an alliance between Holland and Napoleon (South Africa History). Later, governors of the Cape Colony encouraged … land and were forced to serve the…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… well as motifs of violence linked back to South Africa’s history. This essay explores these issues in direct response … alongside a constant reminder of…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… and P. van der Spuy. People of the Western Cape, A History for Schools . Cape Town, Juta, 2003. Beinart, William … 1987. Bonner, Philip and Noor Nieftagodien…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… experienced one of its most turbulent years in its recent history, characterized by the deadly Ebola outbreak, … carats. [13] The Cullinan diamond, the…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… culture' or 'Coloured culture,' for instance? Throughout history, various people and institutions have attempted to … a cave dwelling or anything important…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… knowledge of these highly complex patterns predate written history and were preserved through story-telling among male … male experts, the akwa kuta sona,…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… word ‘Africa’ are contentious, but there is much about its history that is known. We know that the word ‘Africa’ was … as Libya. Image source: www.mlahanas…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… that the Polokwane conference can be seen as a moment in history whereupon conflict within the ANC political party … factor for the first breakaway from the…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… political mobilisation was closely linked to its labour history. In order to understand how Port Elizabeth developed … into a politicised area, one has to…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Provincial Council. Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman. Source: New History of South Africa Cape Town) p231 In 1930, after a … is considered “one of the great…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… emerged. Also see: National Senior Certificate Grd 12, History Paper 1, November 2014 and National Senior Certificate Grd 12, History Paper 2, November 2014 …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… becomes the scene of the most sustained uprising in the history of the country. 11 September, In response, on 11 … 1 May, May Day sees the largest stay-away…
Claremont Histories
… exhibition stand in conjunction with South African History Online at the 2015 Harfield Village Carnival. … memories and stories from a lost community…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… Helen, Women, Gender and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the British Cape Colony and its Frontier Zones c. 1806-1870 , Journal of African History,…
PlaceMuseum Africa
… Museum Africa, Johannesburg's major history and cultural history museum, is housed in the Newtown Cultural Precinct's … civilisations thrived. It is not a…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… now called South Africa. Although the sources of African history became relatively more abundant in the nineteenth century, its history has been the subject…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… further below. South Africa has experienced a long history of forcible removal of people as the result of racist … legislation dating back to 1856, view…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… W. C. Holden was one of the early writers on South African history to publish a book that used the theory of empty land … of the idea of the 'vacant land'…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… on during this complex and chaotic time in the nation’s history. After a 27-year ban on Mandela’s picture, Hallett’s … the first democratic elections in…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… receiving a first in sociology, anthropology, economic history and native administration. 1947 First gets a job at … years. 1963 First’s South West Africa ,…