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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…
PlaceSouth African Naval Museum, formerly the Navy Mast House and Dutch Store House
… on ground level of the historic Mast House, depicting the history and functioning of the Submarine, Divers and Weapons …
Special Screening of Wat Was Hie? Followed by an engaging discussion with filmmaker Luke De Kock
Special Screening of Wat Was Hie?Followed by an engaging discussion with filmmaker Luke De Kock of Cammisa Create.Wat Was Hie? is a powerful site-specific film…
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…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… now commemorated each year as Women's Day. Read about the history of pass laws Planning the 1960 anti-pass campaigns: … question that can only be answered by…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the … unite different groups” (Seekings, Jeremy, The…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinner, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town: 8 April 2005.
… Castillo, "Decaying Manuscripts Reveal Africa's Literate History", www.chronicle.com , 6 Sept, 2002, p.3 of 4) Such is … and our understanding and…
EventThomas Kgope is born
… Johannesburg Art Gallery, p. 100. South Africa History Online,Thomas Kgope,from SAHO,[online],Available at …
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventFirst public service of the Church of England in South Africa
… Human & Rousseau. http://www.cesa.org.za/pages/detailed_history_of_cesa.htm …
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… up during one of the toughest and bleakest phases in the history of South Africa. The country was experiencing yet … Boddy-Evans, A. ‘This Day in African…
May Day
… elections of 1994. South Africa's mining industry's history and the development of strong Trade Unions and … ideologies has largely determined the country's…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… of South Africa marks an important step in the political history of the country. The change that will be effected in … the day signified to us. A brief…