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ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… [14] Photographs have an intimate relationship with history. Walter Benjamin wrote, "photographs become standard … [15] Photography in many ways is the first…
Article1956 Women Marchers
… Albertina and Walter Sisulu Foundation and South African History Online to gather the names and stories of the 20.000 …
ArticleHuman evolution
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid …
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the ethnic and racial terms that have been used to …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… expensive white labour force. Gold and Workers traces the history of white labour on the mines — how at first they were … and American companies wanting to…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events, from … and progressive artistic community. The…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… our article ‘ Defining culture, heritage and identity .' History of Heritage Day In KwaZulu-Natal, 24 September has … of National Heritage Day (article)…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: ANC Statement on Policy Conference state of readiness, 25 June 2012
… months ago, there have been very robust debates within our branches, regions, provinces, alliance structures and the …
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… South African History Online (SAHO) is hosting an intergenerational …
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… South African war, will start here again. The town has a history steeped in bloody relations between the Afrikaners …
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… epitomized by the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre. Following a long history and the spreading of Christian evangelism in the … Albert Christian. On his arrival he…
ArticleContemporary South African Artists
… the month of August 2016, in honor of women, South Africa History Online (SAHO) began collaborating with Artthrob in an …
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… treasure of South Africa . "To honour our 110-year history and 30 years of democracy, recent years have focused … for visitors seeking to immerse themselves…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… sentence given to a female political activist in the history of South Africa. Dorothy Nyembe began defying the … became the longest serving woman political…
POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002
… September 2002 before the National Conference. Through our branches, the membership has therefore been asked to make its … and will also be discussed in the…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… struggle against white domination and instructed Party branches around the country to hold rallies. 35 Mofutsanyana … Press, 1987, 161 - - 182. The best…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… and was the first ever national strike in the country’s history. In particular, the African work force in the Cape … has been seen by some as a turning…
Grade 9 Archive
… it is important to avoid simple answers to complex history. The Holocaust raises difficult questions about human …
Cecile Mella
… in the south of France in 1983. After studying literature, history and philosophy, she switched to film studies and …
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… Vuren, Lani. “Buchuberg: Built on the Backs of Men”, Water History, (Vol 8), (No. 2), (2009), 27. ↵ [9]Van Vuren, Lani. “Buchuberg: Built on the Backs of Men…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… ↵ [iv] http://www.polokwanecity.co.za/history-of-zion-christian-church-zcc/ ↵ [v] … ↵ [vi] www.sowetanlive.co.za/goodlife/2012/07/31/history-of-zion…
Mandela: Message to India
… South African History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 [ On … to signify the beginning of the new era in Indian history - and the beginning of…
ArticleThe Nile river and its influence on settlement
… of Egyptian civilization, that we cannot separate the history of Egypt from its geography and other natural … that would otherwise be arid desert. Since…
PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
John Vorster Square Police Station, was officially opened on the 23 August 1968 by John Vorster, the then prime minister of the Republic of South Africa. It…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… and Natal, coordinating committees of the Provincial branches of the ANC and the Indian Congress were set up to … this occasion to celebrate everything in…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… Africa's black miners was a small event - so small that history records very little about it, save that the … clerk, and also a veteran ANC and Communist…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… also to the functioning of our councillors and our local branches, both of which have to maintain the closest contact … Joe Slovo. In marking these important…
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the “Nkandla Matter” by Thabo Mbeki, 11 April 2016
… Constitution’s design to leave certain matters to other branches of government. They too must observe the … judiciary should not interfere in the processes…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the Europeans and non-Europeans would belong to separate branches, each branch having its own committee and holding … this view and had demanded the…
PlaceMariannhill, Pinetown
… candles, are produced. The monastery has an interesting History. By all accounts Prior Franz Pfanner, who then became …