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ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the male Xhosa initiation, which is referred…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… poll, he followed his conscience and resigned. The head of the University gave him a choice: either he accepts the … or he leaves the university. He was…
ArticleWorld War I
… This feature commemorates the outbreak of the First World War. This major historical event became … from previous wars, in Europe, is the scale and brutality…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were being tailed by … police. They hold 25 civilians hostage…
The National Anthem
… Words This is the official version of the national anthem, combining Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem / The Call of South Africa Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save the … Goals was introduced in September 2000 …
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist settlers landed…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC … Worker and Azania Frontline as publications…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in nearby … the attack was aimed at undermining the…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom came to South Africa as children with their parents,…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly … formed an organization called The…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Within a decade, irregularities in the employment of Indians had increased to such an extent that that the … in 1885, to investigate the conditions and…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its … Indian Congress (SAIC). There was a general…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… Organisation (SASO) was formed in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to break…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… the meeting ends in failure. February, The decision of the Natal Indian Association (NIA) executive to cooperate … with the Lawrence Committee in…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… racial segregation in South Africa began with the arrival of the Dutch and English colonisers. Following its victory … and Coloured) population with an…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work towards a peaceful solution to the problem of…
America, Spanish conquest
… Spain. (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them.) On his second voyage, … colonists fought among themselves and…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his … The assassination…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African … to confine them to the nominally self-governing…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… Indians were officially recognised as a permanent part of the South African population and the Department of Indian Affairs was established with a White…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… 1971 Closure of The Classic , by Nat Nakasa , editor. Publication of ‘ Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’ , Oswald Mtshali’s first book of poetry, …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… 1893 Alfred Bitini Xuma is born, the seventh child born of Abraham and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... … they went to Holland, and they added: 'It…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… time Pass documents were used to restrict the movement of non-European South Africans was in the early 1800’s. … to carry Passes since 1709. Farmers at the…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… it called the ‘Cold War’ ? The reason lay in the threat of new and even deadlier weapons of nuclear technology that prevented outright open warfare. … by…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the … operate underground, some were banned or endorsed out of Cape Town while others were…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… comes into being. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), establishes a station at the Cape of Good Hope, at the…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… The first formal settlement of the Algoa Bay region took place in 1776 when a number of farms were allocated to local Dutch graziers. In 1799 the … at…