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BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
Dr Jotello Festiri Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary medicine, was born in 1865 at the Mgwali Mission in the then…
The National Arts Festival
In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They established…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… control - became an embarrassment: ‘Everybody was taking cover - nobody wanted to accept responsibility to what was … security considerations were secondary…
Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa (FATSSA)
The Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa was founded in 1938 in Krugersdorp by the representatives of 20 amateur dramatic societies in…
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… workers would be prosecuted. As a union official I had to cover a wide area because our branches stretched as far as … of the Fattis and Monis strike. I was…
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
Who were the hunter-gatherers? Many societies all over the world survived by hunting and gathering for most of the last 100 000 years. In southern Africa the…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… many people had been killed because of police efforts to cover up the number of people who died. Events on June 17 The …
PlaceBats Cave Trail, East London
The trail is 3 km long with a moderate/difficult status. It is suitable for children, from 6 years old. The Bat’s Cave Trail is the most popular walk in the…
Chapter 13
… of political naivete. It signified an attempt to cover up their tracks and pave the way for a retreat. The … to justify their own betrayal. And the greater…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed soon after the invention of writing, however, the creation of a formal…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Royal Visit - 1947
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Royal Visit 1947 King gave consent to the "Ghetto"…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
Africa is the world’s second largest continent, both by size and number, after Asia. Its landmass holds 54 countries and nine territories. Over 1.11 billion…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the general region between the third and…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
South Africa, Johannesburg, Poert Mzwakhe Mbuli, UDF concert 1989 The State of Emergency's continued bannings and repression only led to reveal the fact that…
PlaceRosemount
Woodbrook Farm was established at about the same time as East London, and was located immediately south of the town. By the early 1900s it had been overtaken…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 9 October 1940. She attended Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South…
BiographyJan Smiesing
This article was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people were auctioned for sale…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
Within 37 African countries, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
Background On 1 April 1997, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) was established with a membership of around 515 000, becoming the second largest…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
Student protests in democratic South Africa South Africa has a long history of student protests going way back to the anti-Apartheid marches that predated…
Durban an Overview
In 1824 Nathaniel Isaacs obtained from Shaka, King of the amaZulu, a grant of land in the area immediately surrounding the bay of Durban. Initially settlement…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
1800: Historical Context Nelson Mandela traces his lineage back to the Thembu Chief Nxeko, one of the early Thembu Kings who ruled over Thembuland, a…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
San hunter-gatherers The word ‘San’ means ‘people different from ourselves’. The San, who were hunter-gatherers, were the first people to live at the Cape…
ArticleThe Nile river and its influence on settlement
‘Not only is the Egyptian climate peculiar to that country, and the Nile different in the way it behaves from rivers elsewhere, but the manners and customs of…
PlaceSouth Africa
Is the Southern most Country of Africa. It is bordered by Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. It is also bordered by two Seas, namely the…
Address to the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, 2 May 2002
… or are currently been negotiated. Some of these agreements cover such important areas as Fisheries, Agricultural …
PlaceNelspruit
A quaint little town, near the Kruger National Park. Known now as Mbombela, which has a World Cup Stadium. This stadium which was built for some of the 2010…
PlaceKnysna, Garden Route- Western Province
The name Knysna has appeared in various spellings since about the 1770's. It was ‘Nysna’ in one of the earliest letters from James Callander (who built a home…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ago. Several human remains have been…