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ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
Within 37 African countries, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent…
Grade 5 term 2 timeline: The First farmers in Southern Africa
Glossary: The First farmers in Southern Africa
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir…
ArticleCosatu timeline
2010 19 January: (Congress of South African Trade Unions) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking…
The Formation of the Multi-Party Negotiation Process
ArticleSouth African History Online and the University of York Collaborative Project
University of York students studying with Professor David Attwell and Professor Allison Drew have had the exciting experience of working collaboratively with…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
1997 September, The statue of Steve Biko is defaced twice within a space of three weeks after it was unveiled by President Nelson Mandela. 2006 February,…
Timeline: World War II (1939 - 1945)
Resource Links: World War II (1939 - 1945)
Glossary: World War II (1939 - 1945)
CAPS Grade 4: World War II (1939 - 1945) - Term 1
Activity: World War II (1939 - 1945)
Grade 7 Archive
This archive features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. Human evolution Evolution refers to the slow process of human…
Timeline: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
References: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
Glossary: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa (under construction)
Activity: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
ArticleParliament of the Republic of South Africa
ArticleThe National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA)
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
SAHO has commenced their very first Graduate Development Programme, a skills development intervention that was made possible through a partnership with the…
ArticleCape Town Women’s Food Committee c.1946 -1953
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
1906 The African National Congress (ANC) sends a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
1919 Peter Abrahams is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in March 1919 to an Ethiopian father and a Coloured mother. His father passed away when he was young…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
1940 9 October, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. 1959 Tshabalala-Msimang matriculates from Inanda Seminary. 1961 Tshabalala…
List of South African Artists in Exile
Painters/Artists Dumile Feni Louis Maurice Alfred Adams – UK Jan Gerald Sekoto Lefifi Tladi Thamsanqa Thami Mnyele Pitika Ntuli Gordon Metz Gavin Jantjies…
South African artists in Exile
ArticleLesotho Timeline
Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the general region between the third and…
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A documentary history, Volume two 1943 – 1964. Edited by Alison Drew.Part oneHarry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation!…
ArticleAllison Drew Collection
Prof. Allison Drew is a noted historian and writer on socialism and nationalism in the South African context. This is a collection of books and documents that…