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BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… Chocolates for My Wife by Todd Matshikiza, Blame Me on History by Bloke Modisane and Autobiography of an Unknown … Image , based on his MA thesis in which he…
BiographyEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
… work on South Africa. He has written extensively on the history of the South African liberation movement and its … and several other institutions including…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… on the Xhosa communities in Port Elizabeth. However, the history of these communities is inextricably linked to the pre-colonial history, colonial history…
BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
… Africa's Poet Laureate in March 2005. Inspired by the history of his people, especially their struggle for freedom …
BiographyAnthony Sampson
… USA. In 1973, Sampson published The Sovereign State: The History of ITT and rejoined The Observer as an American …
BiographySaleem Badat
… on difference, equity, diversity, and inclusion, a history of universities in South Africa that clarifies … Badat, S. (2018). Email to Omar Badsha, South…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… soon degenerated into raiding and warfare. In 1657 the colonial authorities started a process of allotting farms to … British by devastating the boers' farms…
BiographyJennifer Davis
… study of the role of foreign capital in South African and colonial development, and her introduction to the Unity …
BiographyDavid Livingstone
David Livingstone was born on 19 March, 1813 in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father was a committed Protestant Sunday school teacher and probably…
Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 58 …
Document 70 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 August 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 70 …
BiographyBettie du Toit
… textile workers' strike in the 1935 Du Toit and four other women were taken to the Fort Prison in Johannesburg and fined …
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
… to seek employment. As was the case with many Afrikaans women, she found a position in a clothing factory and later … Prepared by Grietjie Verhoef, professor…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
… Lastly, under Mlambo’s leadership a full department on women affairs was established and its Secretary became a …
BiographyOprah Winfrey
… to third grade. First Black African woman billionaire in history! A DNA test on the show African American Lives (2006) … Daniels' The Butler (2013)] # I'm a…
24. Muslim traders petition against Free State law of 1884
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … with the different banks and by making use of the postal…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… The issuing of passes was one of the cornerstones of the colonial and later racial capitalism in South Africa. Passes … In 1913 the first mass action by…
BiographyKlass Makhosana Mahlangu
… Seara-Robitaille and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship …
Further information on services for the late Adelaide Tambo, 07 February 2007
… in Wattville, Benoni. Issued by: African National Congress PO Box 61884 Marshalltown 2107 …
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… search of gold. The powerful Sudanese empires dominate the history of the Ivory Coast. It was from these empires that … French declared the area their…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
Contents and Contributions Contents: Comment: AW Oliphant, Stories: Going to See Mr. BV, Shimmer Chinodya; Nhamiwa's Magic Stick, Maria Munsaka; The Jungle…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entrenched. … for white occupation as from January…
ArticleContemporary South African Artists
… For the month of August 2016, in honor of women, South Africa History Online (SAHO) began collaborating with Artthrob in an effort to highlight women…
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… cleaned up the last pockets of German resistance in the Po valley at the end of the war. 753 South Africans were … p. 288.|Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five…
BiographyTheresa Solomon
… mayor the previous year. In 1975, Solomon joined the Black Women’s Organisation and became actively involved in the … South African Women for Women. (2005)…
BiographyFrances Rix Ames
… over the next thirty years. Ames later documented the two women’s story in her book, Mothering In An Apartheid Society …
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 69 …
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… film La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (The Party of the Women of Mount Chnoua) (Chronology Assia Djebar). In 1979, … in the context of Islam and in the…
Sing Me a Song of History: South African Poets and Singers in Exile, 1900–1990 by Marian De Saxe, University of Sydney (2010)
… Sing Me a Song of History: South African Poets and Singers in Exile, 1900–1990 …
BiographyFred Khumalo
… He is largely concerned with bringing South African history, particularly that which has been forgotten or … event,…insert chunks of what might be called …