SAHO global search
26,293 records
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… conditions. 1840s and 1850s The shrinking hunting frontier in Pedi territories forced many young men into migrant … mine owners showed a propensity to…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… World opposition to Apartheid Enforced racial segregation in South Africa began with the arrival of the Dutch and English colonisers. Following its victory…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… a result of that party I had at the end of August, right in the middle of the riots. The order was delivered last … the wind. They looked like angels. The…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… sensation that a cosmic drama is being played out there-black against white, integration versus separatism, democracy … Africa. It is also a careful…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… to white minority rule and domination by a disenfranchised black majority. Coming shortly after the Defiance Campaign of … the scope for extra-parliamentary…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… late 19th century Pan-Africanist movement which emerged in the United States of America (USA) among Black American intellectuals such as Martin Delany and ……
Post-detention weapons
… the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial, besides serving to … around 1968, peaking around 1976. The…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… Wesleyan Mission established a school for Indian labourers in 1868 and four years later advised the Coolie Commission … per annum. The first university…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… of the organization. 18 March 1960 – the PAC calls on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and … themselves up at the nearest police…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… 1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) … crowd of Blacks in Newclare, Johannesburg attack a Black policeman attempting to…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… justice. The ideological shifts that took place in the ANC’s economic views from 1990 can only be described … narrow interests of the old white elite and the…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… June 1977, was to be commemorated at St Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg by a twenty-four hours' vigil, organised … organisations and people of all races,…
PlaceAnton Smit's Sculpture Park, Bronkhorstspruit
… Smit’s work has been shown and lauded internationally in places as diverse as Rome and Milan, Italy (1991), the Sweeguan Art Gallery in Singapore (1993),…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… Formed in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs , this was a union of … workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and 1930s,…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… doubt some justification for this pride. A country which in 1981 had a gross national product of approximately R70,000 … pass laws which were designed to…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… Matthews was a member of the clandestine SACP’s leadership in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He told the Cape Town based Russian researcher Irina Filatova…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on this day, 17 August, in 1982. At a … of the African Mineworkers Union,…
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
… Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner and his mother joined other family members in South Africa in…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… same organisation of South Africa`s first Bill of Rights in 1923, which was 25 years before the adoption of the United … divisive past of racism and division…
BiographyConstance Stuart Larrabee
… Constance Stuart Larrabee was born in Cornwall, England and came to South Africa with her … when she was three months old. Constance’s interest in…
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
… at St Cyprian's School and the Wesleyan Methodist School in Johannesburg. In 1904 his father sent him to Bihar in India, where tutors were engaged to teach…
BiographyLawrence Folley
… Born in Benoni in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster … Marie had recently returned from four years of study in England. She was able to…
BiographyFlorence Elizabeth Mnumzana
… Mnumzana (née Mhinga) was born on 21 February 1919 in Mhinga Village, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo ), into … profession. She obtained her Surgical Nursing…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
… ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
… Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo was born on 4 January 1879 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. At the age of four his parents moved to Amajuba in the southeast of…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… activist. After she was exiled from South Africa in 1960, she used her success to shine a light on the ugly … present Republic of South Africa… until all its…
BiographyNicholas Hlobo
… Born in 1975 in Cape Town , Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former … Witwatersrand. Though originally planning to…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… was the right thing to do. This was giving me confidence in the work I took on. So when the exceptional case of … of the disparity and discrimination he and…
”The Global Information Infrastructure - What is at stake for The Developing World?” address to the Infodev Symposium, 9 November 1999
… your morning.I'm sorry that I cannot be with you in person but I'm happy that this satellite technology has … as a Knowledge Bank. The digital revolution,…
BiographyLionel Rusty Bernstein
… Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein was born on 20th of March in 1920 Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) of European Jewish … brought up by relatives. He was educated…