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ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
First published by Spotlight.Africa Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of hands. True, life was far easier, calmer and less frightening and…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
TODAY marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of black consciousness leader, Bantu Stephen Biko. Arrested a healthy man on August 18 1977, he died three…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
The following is an interview with Mr. Champion conducted in 1964 by Mr. Stanley Trapido, Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford. S…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The agitation by anti-Asiatic vigilante groups…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, is the 3rd largest hospital in the world, occupying around 173 acres (0.70 km 2), with approximately 3 200 beds and about…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein SA Image source More than a century after 48 000 people…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Significantly, the National Party, which was…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg prior to…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need western values be to accepted as citizens…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not begin with the passing of the Native Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the expansion…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
My paper is about two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
It is not easy to write about prison. When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the walls. Now I have been outside the prison…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
Issued by the Provisional Committee of the ANC Youth League in March 1944. PREAMBLE WHEREAS Africanism must be promoted i.e. Africans must struggle for …
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The months of legal argument on the indictment were over at last and thirty "high traitors" pleaded not guilty to…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Exactly eight months ago to the day, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, Heads of State and…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
June 12, 1964 was the day for sentencing in the Rivonia Trial in Pretoria. The prosecution wanted the maximum sentence – and we expected it: death. But in a…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
Fellow South African citizens, I am here today to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you of my generation:…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaUp to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the discovery of…
ArticleTuberculosis
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, occurs all over the world and is one of the most infectious diseases, causing more deaths than HIV/AIDS and Malaria [1] [2]…
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
Background Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional Court in 2011 to compel former president Jacob Zuma to establish a commission of inquiry into…
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
Q: How did we get a place called Grahamstown? A: Before there was a town, the place was called Egume by the local people. Then the British came and named it…
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman In July 1993, the date for South Africa's first non…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
South African History Online Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas 23 August 2008 Fatima Meer's career at Natal University spanned…
28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Dealers' Licenses Act, passed by the Natal…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades, Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa C.M.C. Ndamse is a distinguished educationist and former lecturer at the University of…
Address at the Opening of Parliament, National Assembly, Cape Town, 25 June 1999
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces and Deputy Chairperson, Premiers of our Provinces, Distinguished…