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ArchiveAn address by the General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party
… that the country is engaged in a 'Total War'. Outlines the history of the SACP, the Party's programme and immediate …
So truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With …
ArchiveSo truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With …
Preface
… as I argue - little understood period of South African art history, I was faced with the fact of having almost no … Enquiries were conducted among colleagues…
EventColdest day in Pretoria
… The Coldest day in Pretoria in recent history was on 12 June 1963. The temperatures plummeted to a …
Document 20 - F. Carneson, “The Franchise Action Committee”, Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 20 …
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… of the original 23 bells, conjuring nostalgic cries of history. A special computerised, purpose built … new art additions added around the tower to include…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… in presenting a paper, please send an abstract to [email protected] by 1 December 2015 . Full papers (between … of accepted abstracts will need to be…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… heritage, is largely absent in publications on Durban’s history. This dissertation addresses this issue and focuses … maps, diagrams and photographs,…
PlaceAmathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… towns that line the valleys of an area not only rich in history but in incredible scenery too. This is frontier … mountains, stop on route to take in some of…
EventDF Malan mentions the term 'Apartheid' in Parliament for the first time
… This day in history marks the first time the term Apartheid was mentioned …
ArchiveWorking in the apartheid city: worker struggles in Durban, 1959-1979
… for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal, Durban, 1994. According to the …
ArchiveWestern Cape Region - Regional Conference: Problems and challenges of the Western Cape
… Cape Region Conference, 29 and 30 September, 1990. Covers history of the ANC in the Western Cape Region. Talks about …
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… our Defiance Campaign chronology and our feature on the History of Indians in South Africa for more. … SAHO, Manilal Gandhi , from South African History…
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… Syd Cywes, was the first of its kind in the medical history of South Africa. Since that first operation more …
The First Slaves at the Cape
… bring a whole cargo of slaves to the Cape, beginning the history of the slave trade at the Cape , these ill-fated … but it had also taken the first steps in…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… 4000 >3000 >7000 1946 8834 5653 14487 The Apartheid city A history of Pass Laws in South Africa Like all apartheid … homeland politics The South African…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Morogoro Conference (1969) ushered in a new era in the history of the liberation struggle. It opened up membership … to deal with one of the most challenging…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… students are expelled. Tiro eventually gets a job as a history teacher at Morris Isaacson School in Soweto, but is … Nine trial, turning the trial into an…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , who has died , was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a … with total political and economic power – the…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading, comes into … and cultural elder. A colossus. He…
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
Click on image to enlarge The mill was probably erected during the early 20th century. Its water wheel and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from …
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… elections to a constituent assembly. Source: South African History Online …
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
… the Boy Scout movement, which still exists today. However, history also remembers him as staunch patriot with fascist …
EventIEC extends election dates
… areas continued up to 29 April. References: South African History Online …
ArchiveFifty seven years of NUSAS - Have we learned our lessons?
… Critical overview of history of the National Union of South African Students in …
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… like. United Democratic Front logo. Source: South African History Online In 1983, the COSAS welcomed the formation of … it has been utterly scrapped, dumped…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… Nationalism became a very important force in world history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before … decisions made at this conference profoundly…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways shaped the history of 20th Century South Africa. The end…