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ArchiveJune 12 Movement
… June 12th marked a historic moment in the history of Black students. The University of the Western Cape …
Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter - June 26 1955-June 26 2005
… Researcher : Rita Potenza. Photos from Bailie’s African History Archives, Wits Archive, Mayibuye Centre, Sowetan, …
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… On this day in history, Jan Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, …
EventSelassie becomes emperor
… to read about his burial Click here to read more about the history of Ethiopia …
EventDevastating storm hits Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape
… On this day in history, at least 22 people were killed and 4000 left …
EventPresident Mandela reshuffles Cabinet Ministers
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… in April 1994. There is little doubt that coming from a history of a racially divided society, people voted for their …
ArticleMapungubwe
… the academic value of the site and contacted the head history department at the University of Pretoria, Professor …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… for this topic Ancient : Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. Bureaucracy : … Online South African History Online (2014),…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… its name to the South African Rugby Union (SARU). The history of the Rugby World Cup dates back to the 1980s with …
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… north eastern end of the vast complex. (Bailey's African History Archives) A number of student leaders at the …
ArticleAfrapix
… Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary …
ArticleThe Homelands
… White South Africa. Segregation took place throughout the history of South Africa during the Apartheid era. Segregation … Kwa-Zulu. Berkeley: University of…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
… should be changed to ‘Tshwane’. Because of South Africa’s history of Apartheid and the racism embedded in the country’s …
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… to influence his propagandistic theories at schools he had history books rewritten to put him in favourable light and to …
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… organisations. This ushered in a new period in the history of the ANC and of the UDF . As the ANC moved back …
ArticleReferencing Resources for Historical Research
… engaging with historical content. South African History Online (SAHO) encourages all users – especially … the Oxford footnote style of referencing, often…
PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
… of South Africa's deciduous fruit . The Town is rich in History with many Historical Buildings to tell its story, … The farm holds a significant family,…
EventThe first Gay Marriage in South Africa
… On this day in South African history, Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls became the first same …
Umsebenzi
… African communists are included as are articles on Party history, trade unionism and workers' rights. Resistance …
ArchiveThe Government of divided communities
… economic development. The lecture focuses on the political history in communities as well as the variedness in which …
Culture in the New South Africa by Robert Kriger and Abebe Zegeye
… volume is a fist step in rewriting the cultural history of the country, towards a more unified Cultural and …
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… Nations and Apartheid Chronology. Sources: South African History Online …
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
PlaceCabo Verde
… and African fishermen has only been related through oral history, and remains a part of the mythological stories of … Verdean Americans, 1870-1940’ in…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah
… social opponents. Click here to read our past This week In History's entry on another assassination attempt on Nkrumah. …
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… For an excellent background history of this complaint by E. S. Reddy, and how it was …
EventChristian Institute declared an affected organisation
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… internal ANC disciplinary charges. Source: South African History Online …
EventMadalitso Muthiya becomes the first Zambian to play in the prestigious US Open Golf tournament
… 2005 Muthiya turned professional and a year later he made history when he became the first black African to qualify to …