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ArticleResistance and Banishment in Witzieshoek
Transition to Democracy Timeline 1984-1994
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish immigrants (from Latvia and Lithuania, respectively) who helped…
ArticleMcGill University Project
History students working under Dr. Jon Soske from McGill University have successfully completed an exciting online collaboration with South African History…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa is a political lobby group which represents many traditional leaders and chiefs in South Africa. It seeks…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
ArticleLenasia Youth League (LYL)
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
After World War II, the process of decolonization of the African continent gathered momentum as Africans increasingly agitated for more political rights and…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
A list of Books and Speeches pertaining to Robert Sobukwe
A list of archive items pertaining to Robert Sobukwe: Books: Time for Azania by Robert Sobukwe, 1976 (pdf) Speeches: Robert Sobukwe Inaugural…
Documents, Speeches, and Letters pertaining to pertaining to Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
1893 Alfred Bitini Xuma is born, the seventh child born of Abraham and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo…
ArticlePan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania (PAYCO)
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
1892 16 March, James Sebe Moroka is born in Thaba Nchu., Bophuthatswana in the Free State province. 1909 Moroka completes his primary school education,…
Articles and documents pertaining to Sicelo Shiceka
Whitney M. Rasaka
Articles, podcasts and videos pertaining to Letlapa Mphahlele
ArticleCommemoration of Significant Historical Anniversaries
Journal articles by Raymond Suttner
Professor Sipho Seepe review of Robert Mcbride A coloured Life
Professor Lazarus Miti review of Robert Mcbride A coloured Life
Professor Zakes Mda review of Robert Mcbride A coloured Life
The work is clearly a result of meticulous research and depends on extensive primary sources. It is a scholarly work, yet it prides itself in lucidity and…
Professor Rosemary Gray review of Robert Mcbride A coloured Life
Our Dream Deferred Chapters
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. It is significant because it marks the end of…
Articles pertaining to David Goldblatt
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
1924 E.S. Reddy is born in a small village of Pallapalli in India to E.V. Narasa Reddy, a Gandhian who went to prison in the individual satyagraha in 1941,…
The 1992 referendum: Twenty years on - FW de Klerk 16 March 2012
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
On 17 March 1992, President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to participate. The aim of…
ArticleEuropean Revolutions Timeline 1768-1848
1768 Industrial Revolution: Hargreaves perfects his spinning jenny. 1769 Industrial Revolution: Watt develops the modern steam engine. 1779 …