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ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1971 Statement by OR Tambo to the People of South Africa on the 10th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe . 16 December 1971 1972 " Speech by … at the Opening…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… My Background When I look back at those activities of 1980, I think of it as the time when I got introduced to … related my first landing in South Africa was…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
… In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant … surge starting in January and continuing into the state of disaster…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… Stocks in Port Alfred, South Africa, on 16 February 1927 of British 1820 settlers. The family of her father Gerald Stocks hailed originally from South West ……
From Segregation to Apartheid
… achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under … headmen had finally become "salaried…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had stripped black residents of their legally … to…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… took place from 16 – 20 December 2007 at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane. This conference was remarkable as it … through its implications for…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… proved to be a corrupt politician: although long accused of maladministration, accepting bribes and other … a probe, and Botha was forced to appoint a…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… The Transvaal , is one of the former Province of South Africa. It occupied the North … while the Vaal River marked its boundary with Orange Free State…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics … Society put up the cost of the…
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… and the biggest and most representative organization of Africans. For many years we have addressed protest, … make them. Frankly, we are by no means…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… The economic activity of children African children living in Sophiatown were particularly vulnerable to the harshness of urban life. Schooling was not…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the organisation had been active … Zihlangu, Mildred Lesia and Dora…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… and coloured areas moved towards forming a combined force of organisations, but in 1981, civic organisations in Nyanga, … settlements formed their own…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… archives service in South Africa houses and preserves the state records and other documents that have been collected since the arrival of white settlers…
Local Government
… When disaffected groups of Dutch farmers from the Cape reached the Trans-Gariep … on the Witwatersrand continued to flow directly into State coffers. The ZAR…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… Black People were detained in separate camps, the issue of Black Concentration Camps is dealt with in another … and Winburg. 25 February, A former member of…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… authorities were indispensable in the application of the provisions in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of … ‘Shakan system’, based on the Zulu model of a…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… Following the wave of independence which swept the African continent in the … on the part of REC member states to relinquish control of state sovereignty to…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… ● Federation of South African Women The Defiance Campaign of 1952 would … issues of gender inequality that were driven by the state against women of colour…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… Contents Introduction The concept of segregation Discriminatory legislation up to 1924 … enforced separation of racial groups in a community … the state of…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… 1908 23 April, Abram (Bram) Fischer is born in Orange Free State to an auspicious family that includes Abraham Fischer, Brams grandfather, who was State…
National Land Committee
… Programme should address the racially based dispossession of all forms of land rights that occurred after 1913. … resources, skills, experiences and…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… economic impoverishment, and exclusion from citizenship of Africans. Part one examines the historical roots of … in the area that later became known as the…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… By the beginning of the twentieth century a number of political organisations … African War when the possibility of a white minority state was first…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of ……
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… in Transvaal (now Limpopo province). 1870 The death of the King of the Baostho Moshoeshoe I. 1878 Sekhukhuni at … the Afrikaaner Republics of the Transvaal…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The months of legal argument on the indictment were over at last and … in this huge conspiracy against the slate…
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
… Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa." Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto … Soweto and all Black townships are…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… the young Paul Kruger becomes witness to the battle of Vegkop against Mzilikazi. 1838 Paul Kruger's parents cross … A clash between Viljoen's people's army…