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We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria’s communist movement. Meticulously …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Algeria and France, Claude Bourdet. Tangier Diary: A Post-Colonial Interlude, Paul Bowles. The Fact of African History(II) Islam in West Africa, Thomas…
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… Zimbabwe's pre-colonial history is synonymous with the ruins of Great …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… by Gandhi as one of the most important figures in the history of passive resistance and probably, with A.M. … was attained between Gandhi and General Smuts,…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … For the serious researcher investigating any aspect of the…
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
Affectionately known as ‘Magogo’ (meaning grandmother – a title bestowed to her for her motherly, nurturing character), Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
… for use by MK as a military training camp. After the establishment of camp, Makiwane was appointed as the first …
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… was formed when the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) … members of the NIC resigned and formed a body…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… piece of land on the beach adjoining Strandfontein for the establishment of a whale fishery. October, A plot of land … prospectus. 1853 1 September, Issue of…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… by any means possible including fighting against marauding colonial armies in frontal wars of resistance; protest and … epitomized by the 1921 Bulhoek…
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… has subsequently been published; The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa by Robert Ross. This book provides a … of a liberal constitution for the Cape…
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… their territory. In response to public outcry, the British Colonial Office in South Africa appointed a Mr Labouchere as … References: Davenport T.R.H,(1979)…
BiographySally Gross
… most challenging and important figures in our country’s history. Gross was born intersex and classified male at …
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… Together with Jeremy Brickhill, he wrote a book about the history of the young people's uprising of 1976, which was …
BiographyDiana Ferrus
… was thus published in the French law (a first in French history) that made it possible for her remains to be …
BiographyGcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile
… End Notes [1] Moosage, R., 2018. Missing-ness, History and Apartheid-era disappearances: The figuring of … Accessed [2022, July 18] Moosage, R., 2018…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… a pervasive question in his work: Is it possible to evade history? To do so he employs the character of a discredited …
Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979
… to you, Comrade President Fidel Castro, on your election. History has entrusted you with the task of leading this great … in tracing the South African…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… in South Africa helps to understand the entangled history of Southern African resistance politics. The paper …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Proot are required to write a feasibility report on the establishment of a refreshment station at the Cape. 1649 26 … the latter has appropriated from them…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… This working class did not suddenly appear. It has a history, and we can learn significant lessons from this history. We need to understand the forces that…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… today’s South Africa, it helps to become familiar with the history of customary law in South Africa, particularly in its … in customary law can be seen with…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… about the nature of these events. Early nineteenth-century history was a period of intense interaction among African … women and children to sell as…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… as imperative to address and restructure the skewed neo-colonial relationships and trading practices which had, in … exports. Although this was one…
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
… The year 1896 signifies an important moment in African history. In that year, on 1 March 1896, a historic battle … this violent clash marked a turning point…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… APARTHEID Dutch Reformed roots in South Africa How are colonial histories of planning transnational? Apartheid as … that Afrikaans was the only medium that…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… took back control again. Angola only became a Portuguese colonial settlement after the decline of the slave trade in … the ‘native chief’ at Elmira. Source:…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… ideology of Black Consciousness manifested itself in the establishment of the BPC, which was founded by leaders of the … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999)…