SAHO global search
27,910 records
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… apartheid government introduced the General Law Amendment Act, the South African Security Police, or Special Branch, … were given the authority to arrest…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… It had taken nearly two years of talks almost exclusively between the ANC and the NP to … on issues that enjoyed support by all members, they would act in…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the … campaigns against forced removals under the Group Areas Act and…
EventFifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced
… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Fifth Amendment Bill, … in Parliament. The Bill was based closely on the majority of recommendations of the…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… South African Party (SAP) won the majority number of seats in the House Assembly forming the first government of the Union of South Africa. The Union was…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… English. He said that some people wondered at the reason of the conference. A Cape Town paper had stated that to all … nothing more would be done for them…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom … government enacted laws such as the 90-day Detention Act and the…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
… seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. I am an African! I owe my being to the … and the San whose desolate souls haunt…
EventThe SABS is established
… The South African Bureau of Standard (SABS) was established in terms of Act 24 of 1945. The Act was revised on several occasions and … SABS, About , from…
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… a united front against the slave morality and mentality of these Bills, determined to voice their disapproval and to … All-African Convention met with the…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… This essay discusses my experiences and recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I … government was preparing to implement…
The Detention Weapon
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman A number of … security legislation 1963. The General…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… The triumphs of the anti-communist crusaders have been made possible only by the tacit support, cowardice and confusion of large sections of people who, at…
The turn to armed struggle
… ANC and PAC in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act . Severe state repression, the detention and banning of leading political activists, forced…
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… as a medical physician. Moroka marries Maggy, daughter of Chief Fenyani. Moroka sets up a medical practice in a … 1936 Moroka sets up a medical practice in…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… The lessons of the Zuma rape trial have a bearing on the type of future … his version of Zulu culture and masculinity, if he did not act on this “invitation”…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… February 1957 A timely article by the banned ex-Secretary of the African National Congress, now on trial for treason. … as a recognised method of struggle…
ArticleSharpeville
… be achieved by 1963. The PAC argued that if thousands of people were arrested, the country’s jails would be filled … the gathering. A small scuffle began…
ArchiveOpening Address presented at the Black Sash National Conference held at Johannesburg, 1967
… 1967, mentioning: Vorster, migrant labour, Suppression of Communism Act, Education Act, Terrorism Act, separate development, families separated …
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… and domestic service.’ Van Onselen’s two-volume history of ‘everyday life in the Witwatersrand’, a long ridge on the … that had driven so many of them off…
Yesterday’s Poems and the Poets of Yesterday’s South Africa, and towards New Poems and Poets for the Unfinished and Continuing Struggle for a new South Africa by Saleem Badat
… Yesterday’s Poems and the Poets of Yesterday’s South Africa, and towards New Poems and Poets …
Tribute by Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Statement at the meeting of the special committee on its tenth anniversary, New York, 2 April 1973
… Committee against Apartheid, Statement at the meeting of the special committee on its tenth anniversary, New York, …
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… In 1904, after the outbreak of Bubonic Plague, near present day Newtown, the African … moved to the Farm; 'Klipspruit', twelve Miles South-West of the City…
Liberation
… "We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare … world to know. We are the people who have borne the brunt of…
EventForces loyal to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba quash a coup by a handful of disgruntled military officers, arresting nine men including the captain who said an angel told him to overthrow the government
… informed his countrymen that he was dismissing the chiefs of the army and the police, and would give President … "Operation Born Again" and said he would…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… 1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need … by William Edward Durghardt Du Bois. A…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… composed to mark this historic occasion. By the middle of 1956 plans had been laid for the Pretoria march and the … meet with their leaders so they could…
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… boycott a bus, you refuse to ride on it. Campaign A series of organised activities that are all meant to achieve a … deal with difficult or dangerous…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… Philip Kgosana led a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to … in if a meeting with J B Vorster ,…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… South Africa 1899 He organizes an Indian ambulance corps of 1100 men during his service in the Boer War 1906 He … Gandhi introduces the non-violent protest…