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EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… Baden-Powell is an important figure in the military history of South Africa, as he is also credited with founding … I.B. "The Battle of Silkaatsnek- 11 July…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… Ari Sitas, “Badsha could do in one picture what a dozen history workshop papers couldn’t in terms of the detail that captured the texture of life and the…
EventSouth African swimmer, Penny Heyns, wins a gold Medal at Atlanta Olympics
… Heyns was part of Team South Africa in Atlanta. She made history by winning both the 100m and 200m events at the games. She remains the only woman in the…
Griqua community
… The Griqua people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, however their history had an important influence on the history and…
PlaceCameroon
… Cameroon can in many ways be considered a microcosm of the history of the African continent. Diy-Gid-Biy Cultural … under the structural adjustment programs …
Tsonga
… with the Pedi dialect. Little is known of their early history. Some Tsonga think they came from the north in remote …
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
… we recall this epic event in South African working class history. Hull, Lewis and Long who went to the gallows singing …
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… emerged. Source: Nasson, B. (ed). Turning Points in History: Book 1: Ancient Civilisations and Global Trade. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Hani , 10 April 1993. Online: http:www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1993/sp930410.html Alexander, N. An Ordinary … Rodney and Christopher Saunders…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… short life HIS story (otherwise commonly known as history), continues to tell narratives and accounts of the … in passing and then move on to focus on the …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… by South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) Oral History Programme. Interview with Frances Baard by T. Lodge, … vol. 3 'From Protest to Challenge')…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… "Irish House", the Museum portrays much of the past History of the region. The Polokwane Museum is a fascinating … Photographic Museum. While here you can…
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from … Westport: Greenwood). http://www.anc.org.za…
EventPresident Paul Kruger authorises the construction of the railway line to Delagoa bay
… World railways of the nineteenth century: a pictorial history in Victorian. [Online]. Available at: … [Accessed 25 May, 2010] Important dates in South…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… Ari Sitas, “Badsha could do in one picture what a dozen history workshop papers couldn’t in terms of the detail that captured the texture of life and the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education
… "This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior … 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and…
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… has since been given over to the National Cultural History Museum. It was declared a National Monument under old … Offices Building, Old Supreme Court, and…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… IS ALSO MORE INFORMATION IN FURTHER READING.) June 16th in history is dominated by the Soweto Uprising (1976), a … country in the months that followed. About…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… by The Department of Education For a moment let's consider history as a journey through time and space. For much of this … in our journey through time and…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… he published his only and much acclaimed book Blame Me on History, which was in many ways similar to Can Themba's short … for Sophiatown (destroyed in the…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… occasion arises, without once feeling the weight of the history he was carrying on his mighty shoulders. Therefore, … a product of his own environment a…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… lost, this is one of the ten worst earthquakes in recorded history, as well as the single worst tsunami in history. The Tsunami traveled at 500 miles per…
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… a vivid account of this crucial era in southern African history. It seeks to understand the sociology of the ANC in … Centre, Oxford University and is a…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… and New Germany. The museum’s exhibitions, center on the history of these Settlers and their contributions to the … with a considerable collection of South…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… of Dr Monty Naicker is an invaluable chapter in the history of our struggle for liberation. Monty, as we all … to the end of his life and remains entrenched…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… (AEB). Vorster described the success as ‘unequalled in the history of our country’. It is widely believed that the … nuclear weapons by the South Africa…
EventSchool boycott in Port Elizabeth ends
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from … Westport: Greenwood. Reader's Digest. (1988)…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… under-recognised, book in South African politics, history and literature. At home and abroad, it is not nearly … Part polemic, part political commentary,…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… Picture: Terre Blanche, H & Ilsley, J. 1999. Help-U-History Grade 12 . Cape Town: Kagiso Black South Africans For … to allow him to receive the Nobel Prize…