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ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… society, people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution' Serialisation of The Soul of a…
Article2016 in Review
… In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a journey it has been. At the end of the first week…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… Union Government offered to raise an infantry battalion of Cape Coloured men for service in the First World War. A strict selection process was decided upon…
ArticleKora
… a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a leader of the Gorachouqua (`-qua’ meaning ‘people of’). This leader detached himself from this group with…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… formed; these organisations precipitated the formation of the African National Congress. 1866 The first attempt to … when Mfengu chiefs unsuccessfully…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… respectively) who helped establish the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1939 First becomes a member of the Young Left Wing Book Club. 1942 After…
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… Religion is an important part of millions of people's lives across the world. Thousands of African people are converted to Christianity every day and …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… Symbols since 1994 In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. … symbols such as a national flag, an anthem…
Indian Community
… 2010 marks 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Indian indentured workers and the birth of this community in South Africa. Durban is home to the …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976, there was increasing pressure, both internal and … The riots also played an important role…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… powers carved up Africa amongst themselves. By 1914 all of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia, was under colonial … rule. Today, African countries are…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… This article was written by Sarah Rahimi and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … impact on the South African community,…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… will be conducting its third census since the advent of democracy in 1994. Undertaking a census is a massive … census is usually held every five years…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… The Landless People's Movement (LPM) was formed by leaders of various landless people of South Africa in response to evictions of farm workers and labour…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… The region of the Western Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi … for their cattle…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be … uncertainty. During 2014 the continent…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… UNO South Africa and apartheid was placed on the agenda of the United Nations for the first time in 1946 by India regarding the treatment of people of Indian…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… was born in the village Camama in the Tsomo district of the Transkei to a very large family. Circa 1926 Albertina … friend Evelyn (at the time married to…
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… settlement was reached in 1911. But in the letter of 12 September 1913 reproduced below, A.M. Cachalia, chairman of the British Indian Association, explains…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… amongst Anglo Natalians. At last, after the discussion of years and the extinction of hopes innumerable, the planters' pet project has been … so much said in…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… Publishers.|African National Congress, (1980). The Role of Women in the Struggle against apartheid, 15 July. … African Publishing Group.|Berger, I., (1992)…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… Egypt The ancient Egyptian civilisation grew for thousands of years intact because the Nile River Valley and … trade route across a huge and harsh land…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… John Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha becomes the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda. 1871 22 February, … Langalibalele Dube is born at the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… called for strength in resistance, citing the example of Patrice Lumumba of the Congo who, he told a meeting of the Queensburgh Indian Ratepayers Association…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… high security at the Pretoria High Court, with a group of alleged white supremacists accused of trying to overthrow the African National Congress (ANC) … on…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… 90th anniversary. Initially known as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the party changed its name to the … 1953, after it had been forced…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… says the evidence that HIV is the underlying cause of AIDS is ‘irrefutable’. HIV was isolated and identified as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… Please note that this information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… 1941 Born in Cape Town of British parents c. 1947-58 At school in Cape Town 1953 … school 1959 Registers for BSc Engineering at University of Cape Town 1960…