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ArticleHighlights for 2013
South African History Online believes that history is made every day and to that effect we have compiled what we feel are the key historical events of 2013. We…
ArchiveSACTWU Aids Project: home based care services
Black, yellow, red, blue and white poster. SACTWU Aids Project in partnership with ABVV FGTB Belgian Socialist Trade Union. Red aids ribbons down the left…
ArchiveNorma Virginia Guirola de Herrera
Yellow, red, black and white poster. De Mu SA logo. Asociacion du Mujerers Salvadorenas. Triple artwork of a woman with her hand on her chest. El Salvador C.A.
58. Congress has sold our rights
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Moonsamy Naidoo charged that the South African…
ArchiveSellouts have no following
What is significant about this array of 'leaders' that De Klerk has assembled is that he (and Pik Botha) have carefully groomed the home-lands/Bantustan…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
The building is the oldest existing dwelling in the immediate vicinity of Rustenburg. Designed in a neo-classical idiom, it was erected for William Robertson…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
Steve Biko was born in King Williams Town and began his political career as the co-founder of the all-black South African Student's Organization (SASO). It was…
PlaceAngra das Voltas, Luderitz Bay- Namibia
Former name of Luderitz Bay. Portuguese for 'bay of tacks', this name was given in 1488 by the Portuguese mariner Bartholomeu Dias because contrary winds…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
On 1 June 1975, eleven African demonstrators were shot dead while 15 were left wounded when Rhodesian police opened fire on a rioting crowd on the outskirts of…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Six months later, in August 1958, we came to trial. The government wanted us out of Johannesburg this time, to…
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
Contents Early Days Seasonal work in the canning factory THE 'SUBS' STEWARD - "a fine leader to workers in all areas" Life as general secretary Providing…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
ArchiveTGWU Annual General Meeting
Advertisement for TGWU AGM at Ipelegeng Centre, Soweto on Sunday 26th August 1984. Black, green and red poster. Image of black hand holding flag with…
ArchiveANC for peace
Notice of East Rand Peace Summit. Green, yellow, black and white poster. 2 - 4 April 1983. ANC Logo. Photograph of a small child. Artqwork of a yellow dove…
ArchiveApartheid: no
Black, red and white poster. Apartheid in red lettering with artwork of dripping blood on black background. Word 'no' outlined in white. Word Liebig 77 in…
Afrapix
Black and white poster. Four photographs in negative form of various events in South Africa. Advertisement for Afrapix. Reel of negatives at top right hand…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
United Democratic Front was granted a court order by the Minister of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch…
EventThe Young Communist League (YCLSA) is officially formed
The plans for the formation of the Young Communist League (YCL) were laid in 1921 when the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was established. Youth groups…
UDF peoples festival
UDF poster. Notice of festival at Fun Valley on Sunday 28th April. Yellow poster with black and red lettering. Black border. List of attractions. UDF Logo. …
ArchiveBlack Sash public meeting
Black and white poster. lack block on left hand side with the works 'Human Rights' on it. Notice of meeting at Great Hall on Thursday 10th March. List of…
ArchiveSouth African Students Congress
Yellow poster with title in red lettering. SASCO poster. Red circle containing green map of Africa superimposted with black hand holding pen and open book…
Document 21 - E.L. Maurice, “The Rôle of the Non-European Teacher in the Liberatory Movement”, Discussion, 1, 5, June 1952
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 21 - E.L. Maurice, "The RÁ´le of the Non…
Statement by the ANC on the Invasion of Angola by South African Troops by O. R. Tambo, 31 October 1975
The recent invasion of Angola by South African troops is the most dangerous crisis faced by Africa since the United States intervention in the Congo …
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
When the apartheid government introduced the General Law Amendment Act, the South African Security Police, or Special Branch, were given the authority to…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
On 1 February 1920, the South African Air Force was established. This made it the first air force of the Commonwealth, with Lt-Col. Pierre van Ryneveld…
ArchiveSoweto
Black and gold poster. Artwork of a rising sun with two people dead on the floor. Artwork of a young soldier with a rifle. Poem by Paul Dakeyo. Name - D…
ArchiveCommunity arts project: winter school
Multicoloured artwork of image of a clown in the rain, holding an umbrella and paintbrushes in his hand as well. A notice advertising for various art…
ArchiveDont Support Apartheid
Red and white; artwork of a hand, with the words Peoples Power on it; smashing a building with Apartheid Parliament written on it. Tvl Anti-PC, appears on the…
ArchiveWe remember Sharpeville
Black and white poster with black lettering. Image of dead people lying on ground with police walking around. Block containing image of upset student with hand…