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Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… but are later replaced by electrically powered trams in 1906. In July 1904, control of the Tramway Company passed to … Johannesburg's Black citizens are…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
1850 The Nederduitsch Hervormde Church (Nederduitsch Reformed Church) establishes a congregation in Rustenburg. 16 November, A Hervormde congregation is…
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: Minutes of the Seventh National Executive Council Meeting held at D.O.C.C. Johannesburg, on the 17th April 1976
Minutes of the Seventh National Executive Council Meeting of the Black Peoples Convention held at D.O.C.C. Johannesburg, on 17 April 1976
BiographyPhindile Mfeti
Phindile Mfeti, a first cousin of former State President Thabo Mbeki and nephew of Govin Mbeki was born on 15 December 1946, at Nqamakwe, Eastern Cape. He was…
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
Professor Firoz Cachalia holds a BA degree, a BA (Hons) degree, an LLB and a Higher Diploma in Company Law from Witwatersrand University. Cachalia is currently…
BiographyWinston Ntshona
Wintson Ntshona was born on 6 October 1941 in Port Elizabeth. He matriculated from Newell High School where he performed in school plays with John Kani. During…
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis, the son of Thomas Leipold, a fisherman, and Jemima Davis was born in April 1867 in Jersey, Channel Islands, a British Crown…
BiographyCloete Breytenbach
Breytenbach was born in 1933 and grew up in Bonnievale in the Cape Winelands. His father was a farmer. Later the family moved to Wellington in Cape Town. As a…
BiographyEve Hall
Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her father was on a visit to…
Mary Margaret Ngalo
Mary Margaret Ngalo was born in Cradock, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province) to Tom and Leah Plaatjie. As the niece of Reverend Canon James A. Calata, who was…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 9 October 1940. She attended Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
1824 The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824. 1877 The first biography ever written…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
Document 49 - ”The Stay-Home Call: Why did it fail?”. Congress Voice, issued by Emergency Committee of the A.N.C., 2, 2, May 1960
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 49 - ”The Stay-Home Call: Why did it fail?"…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the only official area for African…
ArchiveLabourers to farm for 1996 - 1997
ArchiveEducation University 1985 - 1986
ArchiveEducation Secondary 1996 - 1999
ArchiveEconomy General 1985 - 1986
ArchiveEconomy General 1975 - 1976
ArchiveCrime Western Province 1996
ArchiveCrime Transvaal 1983 - 1986
ArchiveCrime General 1996 - 1997
ArchiveCrime General 1982 - 1986
ArchiveCrime Gauteng 1996 - 1999
ArchiveCrime Cape 1982 - 1986
ArchiveConstruction General 1996 - 1997
ArchiveConstruction General 1982 - 1986
ArchiveCommerce Labour 1982 - 1986
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