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The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War by Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw
A Brief History of Factionalism and New Party Formation and Decline in South Africa by Ivor Sarakinsky and Ebrahim Fakir
Anglo-Boer War 2: British officers Ian Hamilton and Baden-Powell evacuate Rustenburg and Olifant’s Nek and occupy Commando Drif
Guinea announces that she has broken off diplomatic, commercial and cultural relations with South Africa and Portugal, and bann
Air Force Base Waterkloof is founded with two hangars, a runway and No’s 1 and 2 Fighter-bomber Squadrons and No 3 Communicatio
Book Launch: Brothers in War and Peace Abraham and Constand Viljoen and the Birth of the New South Africa
Twenty people are killed and 155 suffer injuries and burns in a collision between a train and petrol tanker near Johannesburg.
Teaching About Nelson Mandela, Apartheid and the Struggle for Freedom For Elementary, Middle and High School students and beyond
The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is publis
In Liberia, shells and gunfire rip through central Monrovia and a diplomatic enclave. US Marines shoot and kill three Liberians
In Liberia, shells and gunfire rip through central Monrovia and a diplomatic enclave. US Marines shoot and kill three Liberians
Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka (born c. 1911), politician and founder of the African Democratic Party (ADP) and also an influential and
Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka (born c. 1911), politician and founder of the African Democratic Party (ADP) and also an influential and
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
In sharp contrast to Graca Machel and his feisty second wife Winnie, Mandela's first wife was a demure country girl who kept well away from politics. Like him…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… exploitative social order where man lives off man. 2. Our Land Demand by which we certainly demand no "free right to buy the land", where the African…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… with sticks and stones. Over time Blacks, dispossessed of land and natural resources, then commodified as cheap labor, … following in the direction and…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… for agricultural workers. He supported calls for Irish land reform and Home Rule (an autonomous Irish parliament) …
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… This is shown by high unemployment, poverty, unequal land distribution and worryingly high rates of sexual …
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… It is one point that gives light to almost the whole land of Africa with its golden sands and houses of bank …
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
… From 1770, the Dutch East India Company laid claim to land on the western and southern sides of the Fish River. A … Cathedral). Once more we started, again…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
Youth P SSRC 1 back to resources > "To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the…
BiographySteven Eli Friedman
Steven Eli Friedman was born on 31 March 1953 in Johannesburg. In 1971 Friedman began studying at the University of Witwatersrand. While at University, he…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… from moving with their husbands, they remained on the land with families and Johannesburg and the surrounding areas … Natal , wealthy white South Africans…
ArchiveWhere do we stand?: APDUSA and a nation free of race hatred and oppression
APDUSA shows concern in how the Herrenvolk and the Broederbond, and particularly in the Western province, attempts to split-up the Non-Whites into various…
ArchiveReligion and oppression: the misuse of religion for social, political, and economic subjugation
This is the procedings for the Symposium for General Secretories of National Christian Councils and Church Leaders from Eastern and Southern Africa,which took…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
0n 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when two presidents from two countries were…
PlaceFranskraal and the Strandveld Museum
Situated right outside the shark cage diving centre of South Africa (Gansbaai), Franskraal is a quaint seaside village with an awesome array of things to do…
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
William Morris, one of England's foremost Socialists, poet and artist 1834-96, also had two daughters, but only one of them-May -took a keen interest in his…
PlacePolokwane Bird and Reptile Park
This reserve is home to over 280 species of birds. It was known as the Pietersburg Snake and Reptile Park. It is still however, a great attraction in the City…