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Women at the start of the 20th century
It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… relight on the sexual construction of female crime. Two sources exist to examine this: the Annual Reports of the …
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
We would like to take this opportunity to pay homage to the farsighted leaders of our region who, eight years ago, decided to establish the Southern Africa…
PlaceRwanda
Rwanda is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa. People began settling in the area as early as 10.000BCE[i]. After several successive…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
By 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered in Orlando West to begin a protest march against the imposition of the Afrikaans language as the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education By 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the then University of…
PlaceKuils River
Long before European ships arrived, the land around modern Kuils River already carried the footprints of indigenous people. Fossils recorded by Charles Bell,…
PlaceBothaville
… class rooms. This was granted and £600 made available. The sources are not 100% clear, it seems like the School was …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency: National Assembly, Cape Town, June 7, 2006.
… on to say that "Development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor …
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… the clippings that contained violent scenes so other media sources abroad, it was a shock for them, because they never …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… in deriving the funds for Native education from two sources (a) the Consolidated Fund and (b) the Native General …
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… squatters within four years. Squatters were drawn from two sources. In the first instance, squatter communities …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… industrial civilization with its need for new markets, new sources of labour, new profits, that had sent its various …
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa from the Cape (what is today the…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
“Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret.” These words of the Latin poet Horace seem to be turning up everywhere lately. Rendered loosely in modern…
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
Racists humiliated "The MPLA has always had the closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People`s Republic…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
A Grand Heritage: Malians express great pride in their ancestry. Mali is the cultural heir to the succession of ancient African empires – Ghana, Malinké, and…
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
"The MPLA has always had the closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People's Republic of Mozambique, PAIGC…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life. The…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
A new book reveals how ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize tried to manipulate President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser into dropping the charges against him. …
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
The Eersteling gold mine, the site of the first commercial gold mining activity in South Africa’s modern History, has, in many instances, been relegated to…
PlaceNiger
Niger (was a former French colony to the north of Nigeria) and Nigeria (was a former British colony) were both named after the Niger River that flows through…
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
Statement In Court By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding And Abetting Under The Immigrants Regulation Act Of 1913, February 26,…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
We, the five thousand delegates to this 53rd National Conference of the African National Congress, gathered at the University of the Free State, united in the…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
Most people credit the abolition of apartheid to many organisations and leaders, such as the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. It is, however,…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
One of the most important developments in South Africa in this period was the formation of the Pact Government in which the push for independence from Britain…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
By the early 1980s, the Congress movement was becoming established as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Act, the weekly periodical Advance, one of the few sources of information about non-White political movements. …