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EventThe first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out
On 27 March 1914, Belgian doctor Albert Hustin conducted the first non-direct transfusion, using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. Initially, blood…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
Quoted in Luckhardt, K. & Wall, B. (1980). Organize or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, New York: International Publishers, p…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
1840s John Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha becomes the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda. 1871 22 February, John Langalibalele Dube is…
ArticleAreas indentured Indians came from
Finding the area ones ancestors came from is a daunting task. To assist the searcher, the table below has been created. The table distinguishes between the…
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
Media and Social Movements Network Rondebosh, the suburb below the University of Cape Town which is below the Cecil John Rhodes Memorial which is below the…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson Gomas died on the morning of Wednesday 25 April 1979 two weeks…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
The South African Students Movement (SASM) an organisation of mainly high school students was formed to represent students, articulate grievances and foster…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
This article was written by Alexandra Larkin and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract This essay sheds…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
On 27 October 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
Mobilise the world for sanctions against Apartheid We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
Mobilise the world for sanctions against apartheid! We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
A Suburb of Johannesburg about 5 km East of City Hall, South of Observatory Ridge and North of Kensington Ridge. Takes its name from the Farm purchased in…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
INTRODUCTION In examining the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) since its establishment in 1961, a number of distinct phases are discernible. Originally a…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This…
PlaceBotshabelo
Missionaries Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner started work in the north eastern part of the South African Republic in 1860. There were unsuccessful…
EventGerman Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swakopmund, South West Africa
The scorched earth campaign conducted by Germany against the Herero people in South West Africa (now known as Namibia) is considered among the first genocides…
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on 1 April 1875 in Greenwich, England. Both his parents were actors. He started his career at the age of eleven working…
PlacePretoria Art Museum
The Pretoria City Council started a permanent collection of paintings from artists such as the German Baroque painter Joachim von Sandrart (1606 – 1688), the…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
There is a saying that goes: “Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.” I am what I am because I was inspired, motivated and mentored by Juda…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
Helen Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st birthday and is…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort Hare SRC to…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
Kommetjie was established in 1902 when a consortium of Cape Town businessmen purchased the farm Kommetjie from its owner, J Albertyn, and developed it as a…
PlacePella
In the mid-1880s a huge Cathedral was built in the Bushmanland desert oasis of Pella by French Missionaries who at first had absolutely no idea what they were…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
Ray Alexander Simons nee Alexandrowich arrives in South Africa from Latvia where she was born on 12 January 1913. After her arrival in the country she realized…
EventMercenaries from South Africa led by Colonel “Mad Mike” Hoare, attempt an unsuccessful coup in Seychelles
The armed mercenaries entered the Seychelles disguised as a beer-drinking tourist party, "The Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers." Hoare's objective was to return…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Southern Matabeleland. At the age of ten, Nkobi followed his father who was a migrant…
PlaceMohodi
The area of Mohodi ga Manthatha or Mohodi in short was a settlement in the former homeland of Lebowa about 75 km north-west of Pietersburg (now Polokwane). The…
PlaceVryburg, Bophirima Region
Vryburg lies on the N14, due West of the Towns of Klerksdorp and Orkney - as in 'Orkney Snork Nie' (Orkney doesn't snore) the popular Afrikaans toilet humour…
America, Spanish conquest
All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave TradeThe content below has been modified…