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ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
The largest North-Sotho language group in South Africa are the Bapedi group, who arrived in the northern province around the 1650s, and became powerful after…
Mandela: Message to India
South African History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 [On the occasion of an India-South Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the post…
ArticleThe Battle - Andries Pretorius and his men advance
After the fall of Port Natal Port Natal Andries Pretorius arrived from Graaff-Reinet. On 25 November 1838 Pretorius took over leadership as Commandant-General…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and EnvironsThe Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West…
ArticleBlack Sash
The Women's Defence of the Constitution LeagueIn 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly English-speaking formed an organization…
Learning about local history through pictures
In this lesson we will investigate the history of different local areas and local events using these different sources.Let’s see if you can guess which local…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
The shards of South Africa’s fragmented history share a common thread throughout; at the core is a struggle for equality and visibility. Over the course of the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… be walking around with my head bare but if they arrive I cover my head and put something round my waist. It makes them …
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and the British clashed intermittently for…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
From voyages of trade and discovery to colonisation: This section of the grade 10 curriculum was developed in 2009. While much of the content is still…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… and when he is taken by surprise. Make sure you are behind cover when the hand grenade explodes. Black Powder Black …
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… on a cold damp prison floor with a single blanket as cover. For Gomas these hardships were beginning to take their …
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… fares but because our wages are so low that they do not cover the cost of our most urgent needs. At this rally, …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… considered by the TRC Amnesty Committee. This process will cover the requests for pardon of those people convicted for …
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
The 1960s witnessed the banning of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to the banning, both parties were forced…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re…
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
Trouble in Natal - 20 00 Women rioted in Cato Manor over living conditions and government beerhalls and passes for women. Photo by Drum photographer © Baileys…
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
This catalogue and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising artists and the "advancement of art" in…
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (the GRA, the Fellowship of True Afrikaners) was launched in Paarl, Western Cape on 14 August 1875. The society was…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
Africans resisted colonial rule from the outset, trying to hold on to their land, but were not strong enough to defend themselves against European conquest…
ArticleIndian South Africans
From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa The feature on Indian South Africans forms part of our…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
Please note that this information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… ideological policies ‘on the ground'(1991: 252-253). Under cover of a State of Emergency declared in June 1986 and …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
Legal instruments through legislation, resolutions, proclamations and ordinances played a key role in legitimizing systematic land dispossession and…
PlaceSchoenstatt Retreat and Conference Centre, Cape Town
Schoenstatt’s Founder was a priest, Father Joseph Kentenich was born in 1885, near Cologne in Germany. In 1912, he was appointed Spiritual Director in the…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… Pareto, Georges Sorel and Benedetto Croce. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics, including Italian history and …
EventSA signs investment incentive agreement with the USA
The signing of the investment incentive agreement between South Africa and the US in 1993 ensured that the two countries would develop cordial relations. Since…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
Historical Context to Paul Kruger 1825 Paul Kruger is born to Casper Jan Hendrik Kruger and Elsie Francina Steyn 1835 Paul Kruger's father situated…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ attempts at…