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Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
The lessons of the Zuma rape trial have a bearing on the type of future leadership we must seek. In the normal course of events someone acquitted of a criminal…
ArchivePretoria Central Prison execution register entry and prison photograph of Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize, recorded as "Mkhise P", File V963
A photocopied page (numbered 134) from the execution register of the former Pretoria Central Prison. The upper portion is a tabular entry recording, under the…
PlaceFish Hoek, Cape Town
This old Village is surrounded by rugged Mountains and boasts one of the safest swimming Beaches in Cape Town! Fish Hoek is a glorious Bay with a beautiful…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
Women at the start of the 20th centuryIt is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY, SOUTH AFRICA. I was…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
During the 1990s, behind-the-scenes negotiations between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were…
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
Programme Director, Cde. Nelvis Qekema, Jwarra!!! Pastors who are present; Pastor Letshelega, Prof. Masango, Rev. Raboroko and Rev. Vilakazi The family of…
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
The 650 000 strong South African Tamil Federation (SATF) met with the ANC on 5 November 2014 at Luthuli House, Johannesburg. The SATF delegation led by its…
EventThe "Battle of Andringa": violently separating Stellenbosch
Several Stellenbosch University students engaged in a fight with the town’s Coloured residents on the corner of Andringa and Plein Street in Stellenbosch. [i]…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
Known popularly as the 'White Building'. The old Harbour Board Building was used for 70 years for harbor administration by the South African Railways and…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union…
EventSACP is legally re-launched
On 29 July 1990 the South African Communist Party(SACP), which had been unbanned in February 1990, was formally re-launched as a legal organisation at a mass…
EventUS House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
On 18 June 1986, the House of Representatives of the United States of America approved a Bill that would impose stricter sanctions against South Africa. This…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
The Hector Pieterson Museum, the first museum in Soweto, was opened on 16 June 2002. The Museum is situated on Kumalo Street in Orlando West, and is named…
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
On 29 July 1999, a team of AngloGold mineworkers at the Mponeng mine in Carletonville accidentally drilled into a pocket of flammable methane gas in the…
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
In the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Britain annexed the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, two hitherto independent Afrikaner…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, was born in Kimberley in 1901, the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who later opened a…
EventPeter “Terror” Mathebula dies
On 18 January 2020, Peter “Terror” Mathebula South Africa’s first black world champion boxer died. Mathebula was born on 3 July 1952, in Transvaal (now Gauteng…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
19317 October, Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa.1961Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in the…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
In the year, 2000, four young oral historians interviewed fourteen women who participated in the 1956 March. Here are extracts from three interviews (Q:…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
see photos !U's story Part 3: How big is a family and who belongs to it? A family consists of a mother, father and children. A man can have more than one wife…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
While colonialism and slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
ArticleKora
The Korana or Kora were a nomadic Khoikhoi group that probably derived their name from a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a leader of the…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
Marcus Garvey, preaching the unity of all blacks, claimed that liberty would come about only through the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral homes…
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…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
Indian immigration into Natal brought with it strained relations and severe problems and conflicts between the White colonists and the new arrivals. Within a…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
Black university students had tried for many years to make progress through the multiracial and liberal National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam Memo Level 1 & 2…
Addis Video Art Festival to Cape Town Hosted by ALMA MARTHA
FRIDAY 17 February 2017 Screenings and a light shared meal from 6:30PM - 9:30PM Performance by Francois Knoetze and Daniel Gray 7PM Erf 81, Corner of…