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EventANC recruits receive military training
Security Police Chief, Brigadier C.F. Zietsman, announced that about 4,000 South African exiles were undergoing guerrilla training in Mozambique, Angola,…
ArchiveMemorandum van HSAW aan die Voorsitter van die SVR werkkomitee
Memorandum from the Chief of the South African Defence Force to the Chairman, State Security Council, detailing guidelines for the formulation of a short term…
ArchiveKorttermynstrategie vir Angola
Memorandum from the Chief of the South African Defence Force to the Chairman, State Security Council, detailing guidelines for the formulation of a short term…
Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
Table of Contents List of Photographs Acknowledgements Foreword by A. P. Mda Foreword by Walter Sisulu Introduction Early Writings Congress Youth…
ArchivePretoria Minute
Minutes of discussions between the South African Government and the African National Congress in Pretoria, 6 August, 1990. Re-committing themselves to the…
EventViolent clashes about the Transkei territorial authorities continues
… at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 23 May 2013]|Africa Files Southern Africa Report Archive [Online] Available at: …
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
The South African Native Labour Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men…
The conduct of EFF at the National Assembly Today, 17 September 2014
The African National Congress once more expresses it`s concern about the conduct of EFF Members of Parliament in the National Assembly today. Their refusal to…
![Joint Statement on the Durban Riots, by A. W. G. Champion of the ANC (Natal) and Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress [n.d.]](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/field/archiveimages/fdce6e25-faa8-4ab0-be75-7774d87bf4a1.png?itok=1j_rz5UU)
ArchiveJoint Statement on the Durban Riots, by A. W. G. Champion of the ANC (Natal) and Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress [n.d.]
JOINT STATEMENT ON THE DURBAN RIOTS, BY A.W.G. CHAMPION OF THE ANC (NATAL) AND DR. G.M. NAICKER OF THE NATAL INDIAN CONGRESS, 1949The African National…
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
Thirty years after the first Treason trial in 1956, 16 members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) were accused of treason in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
The African National Congress (ANC) released a report by an internal commission of inquiry (the Skweyiya Commission), appointed to investigate detainee abuse…
EventSANDF soldiers strike
Problems with the integration of " uMkhonto we Sizwe" (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Azanian People's Liberation Army …
Claremont Histories Photographic Exhibition
Claremont Histories will host a photo exhibit showcasing some of the stories and photographs of people forcibly removed from Claremont and Harfield under the…
ArchiveRace, culture and personality
The fifteenth Heornle Memorial Lecture delivered by Dr. Simon Biesheuvel who was concerned with the social and political importance of race problems and more…
ArchiveStudent international
Paper presented at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 16 July 1970. Paper discusses the history of student organisations…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and re-engineer Pondoland and to co-opt their Chiefs. Violence…
EventPeter Becker dies
Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historicl books on African people and their customs, died instantly after being hit by a car outside…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Nigeria
… 1994-2004, Special Edition, p. 10.| SAHO Football in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012 [online] Available at: …
ArchiveNUSAS - its background and history
NUSAS - its background and history. Informal talk delivered at National Seminar of the National Union of South African Students, April 1973. Pages7 to 10 of…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… were conciliatory and acknowledged that blacks in South Africa had real grievances, most drew on traditional … Ambassador to the United Nations. His policy…
EventSA Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President’s Council fails
South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails. The Council was…
EventMelrose House opens as a Museum
The first South African State President C.R. Swart opens Melrose House in Pretoria as a museum. The House was built in 1866 by George Jesse Heyns a Pretoria…
ArchiveNUSAS resumé 1981
Record of some of the main events that the National Union of South African Students initiated or was involved in during 1981, in particular, political events…
ArchiveShould NUSAS talk to the ANC?
A pamphlet issued by the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) at the start of their campaign to find out whether students supported NUSAS…
ArchiveNegotiations, armed struggle and the ANC
Paper by Ian Phillips, presented at the Stanger Meeting on Thursday, 19 July 1990. On negotiations, the armed struggle and the African National Congress…
EventEngenas Barnabas Lekganyane is buried in Morija
Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), was laid to rest in Moria…
EventThe United Party is formed
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa ; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 429. …
EventDieter and Ruth Gerhard are detained
The South African government announced at a special press conference that a senior South African naval officer, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and his second wife,…
EventMoses Kotane receives Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe
Three years before his death Moses Kotane, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the ANC's…
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
On 11 October 1899 war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. In March 1901 Lord Kitchener, the commander of the British forces, decided to cut…