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ArticleMafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017
… Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both … issues. The lecture series is in line…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… Cetshwayo's ruled the Zulu nation at a time when British colonial penetration of the South African hinterland was gaining momentum. Successive British…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… does not benefit their communities. More so, there is a history of disciplines treating and depicting amaXhosa … as an exotic other and ahistorical – largely…
Griqua
… Introduction The arrival of the Boers and the colonial masters to the area known as Griqualand West, denied … causes of tension was between wanting to be…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… Secretaries of Natal Indian Congress forwarded petition to Colonial Secretary against Immigration Law Amendment Bill. … have devoted to the continuance of…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… steps. You should pay attention to the process of the establishment of the Pan African Parliament and work to … by big business, which advocated the views of…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… separate development for the Non-White peoples through the establishment of Bantu Authorities, Urban Bantu Councils, … subscribe to this programme to work…
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
… most organised and decisive student protest in the history of the Western Cape. At its zenith the boycott of … cheap black labour. The students' anti-teacher…
PlaceTransvaal Province
The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed from 1910 to 1994. It's now part of the…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… Congress organisation was intact, the campaign led to the establishment of numerous local COP committees which drew in … was that it attempted to do what was…
EventHerero people defeat German Forces
… battle marked Herero resistance against expanding German colonial rule and land grab. The Herero people are pastoral people who store cattle as wealth. Since…
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… in 1679, the Castle of Good Hope is the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa and one of the most … trees, Arderne Gardens is an overlooked…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… Why consider the history of a hundred-year old law? Surely the Marikana … nor did it transform the countryside. It followed a long history of colonial…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… host a man who has made such a significant impact on world history. Since the first stirrings of democracy in South … Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa, to…
PlaceSabie Sands Game Reserve
… For this one has to have a closer look at the Reserve's History. Many of the land surface of what now is the Sabi … providing a steady supply of water. Then…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… peak in the late nineteenth century. In South Africa, the colonial period began with the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in … Model: This was essentially the…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the 47th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Honouring of Luthuli Detachment and Conferment of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein
… December 16, 1961 marked a historic turning point in the history of our struggle for freedom. This was after many … embarked on revolutionary armed…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… Republiek (ZAR) is established. 1853 16 November, Establishment of the first Volksraad. MW Pretorius purchases … City Hall is inaugurated by Sir Johannes…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… gets its first telephone exchange. 23 August, the establishment of the Lowveld Farmers Association begins with … 65 000 cases of citrus are being exported…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… Particular care is needed when considering a country whose history is framed by society’s attachment of axiomatic … refreshing analysis that recognises the…
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… was in South Africa inthe 1940's, came to the attention of colonial authorities as one of the rising stars of Rhodesia's … African nationalist movements…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2014 submissions
… has thoroughly enjoyed deeply learning about South African history. Project: The 1956 Women’s March Reid Arnold Reid … University. He plays for the SMU…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… energetically" annually on 1 May "for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of … elections of 1994. South Africa's mining…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… to "demonstrate energetically" on 1 May "for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of … elections in 1994. South Africa's…
PlaceCuylerville
… Thomas WAKEFORD. Settler Handbook Content: No. 33 on the Colonial Department list, led by John Bailie of 7 Manchester … War Claims Commission. Bailie was…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Mali and Nigeria. Much of what we know about the early history of West Africa comes from medieval accounts written … a new momentum in the Ghana Empire and…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… a Gold Conference was held in October 1919. Prior to its establishment South African commercial banks issued banknotes … a Select Committee of the Parliament…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… public by tracing it within the country’s publication history. Publication history includes texts that were published, the presses that … [34] Henning Melber…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… at the RDM until 1980. Sam Haskins book, Silver Images: A history of photography in South Africa , by Dr A. Bensusan , is published by Howard Timmins. Silver…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… issues of the position of Western educated elites in the colonial structure and their impact in ‘imagining’, following … Benedict Anderson [2] , nationhood…