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ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
Eugenics and Genocide in Nazi Germany Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, which refers to the intentional, systematic extermination of six million…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
Regarded by the local people as the heartland of the Nama Culture, the little Town of Kuboes lies nestled between the Mountains of Ku Boesberg to the North,…
PlaceKing Edward VII High School, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
In 1902, the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War was in sight. Plans were being made to reorganize the educational facilities in the Transvaal. These had…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
10 years ago, you sent into oblivion so much energy, so much youth, so much enthusiasm, and so much love of our country. To impose your world on us, you killed…
13. Wife lays bigamy charge
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Amirtham charged her husband, Seeniwasa…
PlaceDurbanville
The site currently known as Durbanville was originally called: 'Pampoen Kraal'. On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
Jeff Butler (1992) The Englishman was earmarked as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching qualifications led him being turfed. …
PlaceMount Fletcher, Eastern Cape
Mount Fletcher is a Town in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, 69 km North-North-East of Maclear. Mount Fletcher is…
PlaceWonderboom National Airport, Tshwane
Wonderboom Airport, is located north of Pretoria, South Africa. The airport handles general aviation flights and passenger services. The Wonderboom Airport was…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
Vergelegen Wine Estate is situated in an exclusive upmarket Area of Somerset West, about 50 km East of Cape Town. The Area was named after Lord Charles…
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
NEC members Deputy Chairperson Provincial Secretary Deputy Secretary Provincial Treasurer PEC members The leadership of the Alliance partners The…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
CHENGIAH “ROGERS” RAGAVEN was an arts student at the University of Natal “Non-European” Section and became a close friend of Steve Biko. He was elected…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle in Cape Town, which he shared with Ari…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson South African history can legitimately be described as the…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
From Military Chairman to President of the Republic: After dissolving the national electoral committee, Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara organized and won a flawed…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
South Africa is trying to turn Frontline States like Zimbabwe into police stations guarding its borders, the President of the ANC, Comrade Oliver Tambo, has…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped them…
PlaceDarling, West Coast
The warm, welcoming and friendly Tourism Folk from Darling, believe that peace and quiet of the foremost importance! A calm and peaceful Retreat from the…
PlaceHamilton Primary School, Visagie Street, Pretoria
A beautiful Victorian building tucked into an avenue of majestic Jacaranda trees is the home of Hamilton School. This school in the heart of Pretoria has a…
PlacePretoria National Zoological Gardens.
Situated at 323 Boom Street, the zoo is the largest in South Africa and rated as one of the top zoos in the world and is run by the National Research…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) reinstated on 3 July 1992…
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The origins and development of Trotskyism 171 Document…
Nelson Mandela Mandela and Winnie’s studies
Introduction Nelson Mandela has a commitment to education. Both Mandelas have continued to study and to write exams throughout their imprisonment. When there…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
Dorothy Molefi is a mother who lost her child to violence. But what makes her story unique is that her child became an international icon of South Africa's…
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
Dullstroom dates back to the 1880’s and was name after its Dutch founder, Wolterus Dull, and the many Rivers found in the Area, hence the suffix- ‘stroom’,…
PlaceHoughton, a Johannesburg Suburb
Houghton is an extremely wealthy Suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. In fact, one of the most famous residents of Houghton was Nelson Mandela, who owned a…
PlacePilgrims Rest
Once a booming gold rush town in the 1870s, Pilgrim’s Rest remains frozen in time. The entire town is a national monument, with original corrugated iron…
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
“Mum, please hold my poetry book. Help me memorise my lines.” “What’s it called?” she asked. “Hiawatha.” “Oh, then just say it,” she said, her hands deep in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
My paper is about two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899…