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The ANC, MK and the turn to violence by Paul S. Landau, 1960 - 1962, Johannesburg, South Africa
Death in Black and White: Suicide, Statistics, and Race in Natal, 1880-1916 by Julie Parle
”Wind of Change”: A speech made to the South Africa Parliament on 3 February 1960 by Harold Macmillan
Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war by André Wessels
Document 94 - “The United Front in South Africa: A Reply to S. B.”, South African Worker, 13 June 1936
Let Us Rally - Issued by the All-African Convention Executive Secretary: 797 Location, Queenstown, December 1956
Léopold Sédar Senghor poet, teacher, and statesman, first president of Senegal (1960-1980), and a major pro
Ernest George Bock, SA cricket player in one test match (1935/1936), is born in Kimberley.
Desmond Tutu - Extracts from the letter to Prime Minister John Vorster dated May 6th 1976
Click to read Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Letter from Dr. A. B. Xuma, President-General of ANC to the Chairman of General Assembly, 9 January 1946
The Automobile Association of SA (AA) takes over the Royal Automobile Club (RAC), founded in 1901.
Minutes: Vergadering van die AG-Werkgroep op 22 Augustus 1986, Kantoor van die Administrateur-Generaal, Windhoek
Minutes, written in Afrikaans, of a meeting of the AG-Workgroup held in Windhoek.
Nicolaas Marais Hoogenhout, founder of the “Afrikaanse Taalgenootskap” in 1905, principal of the Pretoria Normaalkollege, 1925-
A large-scale work and school stay-away takes place to commemorate the Sharpeville shootings in 1960.
ArchiveReport of the Information and Propaganda Sub-committee of the General Executive of the Black Sash for the year 1956 to 1957
Report of the Information and Propaganda Sub-committee of the General Executive of the Black Sash for the year May 1956 to April 1957, discussing: Multi-racial…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
Mr. Chairman, Esteemed Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Ministers and fellow delegates, Comrades leaders of the liberation movements, Ladies…
BiographyAthol Edwin Thorne
Athol Thorne was born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family soon moved to Durban where he attended school and university. His parents were…
BiographyChief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
Justice Arthur Chaskalson was born in Johannesburg on 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954…
BiographyChris McGregor
Christopher McGregor was born on 24 December 1936 in Somerset West in the Western Cape. He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern…
BiographySadie Forman
A fierce non-sectarian and advocate for racial equality and women’s rights, Sadie Forman (nee Kreel) was born in 1929. Her father, Bunim Idel Krill, a Yiddish…
BiographyNatvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia
Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia was born on 28 March 1924 at Coedmore Road, Bellair, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Natoo Babenia’s political activism…
BiographyGille De Vlieg
Gille de Vlieg was born Gillian Ruth Hemson in Plymouth, England in 1940 during a Nazi bombing raid on the city. After losing their home in a later bombing…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was born on 27 January 1949. She received her secondary education at Amanzimtoti Training College until 1967 and began her tertiary…
BiographyLesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of…
BiographyManonmoney "Ama" Naidoo
Manonmony Pillay was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 30 November 1908. Her family was originally from the Thanjavur district in India and her…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
This timeline is NOT complete. Any omissions are unintentional as this timeline is a work in progress that will be added to over time. Please click on the…
BiographyJohn Beaver "J.B" Marks
John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). His father was a railway worker and his mother, a…
BiographyTlou Theophilus Cholo
Tlou Theophilus Cholo was born in 1926 at Kgakana Village, Polokwane. A son to a trade unionist, his father worked in Johannesburg where he was an active…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
John Jacques William Aitchison was born to Harold Aitchison and Phyllis Jacques, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… rugby for the Western Province and formed part of the 1906 Paul Roos Springbok team that toured through Britain and …