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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…
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 …
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…
Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
… Moiketsi Thibedi is a PhD candidate at the Department of History at Wits University. He holds a Master’s Degree in … Telling Our Own Stories – Bringing to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveClosing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.
… his association with the National Union. Overview of history of protests by black students against the apartheid …
June 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape …
June 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape …
ArchiveJune 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape …
Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter - June 26 1955-June 26 2005
… Researcher : Rita Potenza. Photos from Bailie’s African History Archives, Wits Archive, Mayibuye Centre, Sowetan, …
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… On this day in history, Jan Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, …
EventSelassie becomes emperor
… to read about his burial Click here to read more about the history of Ethiopia …
EventDevastating storm hits Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape
… On this day in history, at least 22 people were killed and 4000 left …
EventPresident Mandela reshuffles Cabinet Ministers
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …