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ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… and severe as that between Bantus and Whites. In resisting colonial expansion, Black African rulers founded sizable and … with itself and the world" (Manzo…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with Rhodes to try to … illustration by P. W. Wheeler, taken…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… a British colony . One of the responsibilities of the colonial administration was to re-establish schools as these … escape from the building added a…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… the Republic of South Africa in 1961 . The Transvaal’s History in the rest of the 20th Century was primarily … NATIONAL PARK . An extraordinary and very…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… Act and other segregationist laws. While the process of colonial expansion and land dispossession in Southern Africa … Africans and even use force. The Act…
Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… persistently sought to share political power with the colonial ruler, the role of Ethiopia or Ethiopianism in … that Ethiopians lost to an enemy; it is non…
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
… years ago, out of the struggle to free our peoples from colonial rule. This colonial rule which used the same logic whether here in the … behalf of the…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… Joseph Chamberlain who was visiting South Africa. But the Colonial Secretary who had come to receive a gift of … This marked one of the greatest episodes in…
PlaceEdenburg, near Bloemfontein
… Riet River and its many small tributaries. There have been Postal Coach Tracks discovered, dating back to 21 February …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… , a basic introduction on Marxist materialist view of history and class struggle, played a huge role in Motlanthe’s … 9 August 1987, NUM embarked on the…
PlaceKhwe Living Museum, Namibia
… with only about 4000 people in Namibia, has a turbulent history, determined by relocation, political restraint and … grass huts around which the pristine way…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… vote in favour of the reforms. The outcome of this was the establishment of a tri-cameral parliament with an executive … Bottaro, Jean and Visser, Pippa. …
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Military Veterans Medals Parade Waterkloof Airforce Base, 27 October 2012
… to continue with our journey of redefining the country`s history to truly reflect our rich diverse past. The medals … we shall win and liberate our country…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document … - to destroy the existing exploiting…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… African National Congress “demarcated a milestone in the history of the struggle against colonialism and racism and … Esteva 1992). Indeed, Majid Rahnema…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… - this sort of myth was rife in the Rhodesian settler-colonial imagination. Having been met with resistance from … Hegel's influential sentiment that "Africa…
ArticleThe Homelands
… White South Africa. Segregation took place throughout the history of South Africa during the Apartheid era. Segregation … Authority Act, Act 68 of 1951,…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… organisations. This ushered in a new period in the history of the ANC and of the UDF . As the ANC moved back … regional and local structures and participate…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… Gauteng, South Africa. The Dutch Reformed Church's history in Southern Africa begins with the arrival of the … the East and Africa, free blacks, political…
PlacePhillipton
… in 1828, antagonised both Dutch settlers and British colonial administrators. Philipton's first missionary was … der Kemp at Bethelsdorp, he scandalised the…
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
… was considered to be a distinguished member of the British colonial army, and he was lauded at home for establishing the Boy Scout movement, which still…
PlaceLuthuli House Museum, KwaDukuza
… curatorial baggage of those museums instituted during the colonial and apartheid periods. This has allowed the Luthuli …
ArticleThe Khoisan
… as the Khomani (to read more about the language see the history of the San). The Kora: The Korana or Kora were a … cattle and land raids came to a head in…
BiographyGriffiths Mlungisi Mxenge
Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, the eldest son of Johnson Pinti and Hannah Nowise Mxenge, was born in 1935. His parents were well-respected peasant farmers of Rayi,…
BiographyMohammed Tikly
Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in Pietersburg, (now…
BiographyLloyd Spencer
Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
… should be changed to ‘Tshwane’. Because of South Africa’s history of Apartheid and the racism embedded in the country’s … believed to be the name of the son…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 26 … 20 August 1928 Comrades, I should like…
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
… Africa, 1652-1927’, became a standard work on the early history of finance and banking in South Africa. Arndt was …
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
… Whilst in prison he completed a BA degree, majoring in history and psychology, and a BCom degree. Shortly before his …