SAHO global search
27,858 records
PlacePinetown and its Museum
… commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine , Governor of Natal (1873-75). At the heart of the town and just off the main road lies the Pinetown … the…
Introduction
… The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the war effort, and hundreds of members,…
PlaceSeychelles
… can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were first settled on by the French, leading a small party of Whites,…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa … Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan Centre of Jewish Studies and Research,…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a … a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the history…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights … United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is the transfer of…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… The roots of White women's suffrage in South Africa began with the founding of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1899. The goal of this…
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… History of Cato Manor Cato Manor was established in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) and is situated 5km west of the Durban city centre. The Township was known…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' … and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… trial which since last year, has been the focal point of world attention. The judge in the trial has done his … been put away by the evildoers. The…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… as a factor in the South African situation we are accused of a departure from Marxism. We are told that it is necessary to point always to the economic basis…
Cable to the United Nations, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, November 25, 1948
… on sixteen November that Mr. Rathebe told meeting of Johannesburg Joint Council Europeans and Africans that … This was apropos Polish delegate's anticipation…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National … its campaign to mount a mass action against the passing of…
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
… Last night you committed yourself to the intensification of the struggle. Would you care to comment? (A) There is no … those statements. I have committed…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Congress (1977), ANC Speaks: Documents and statements of the African National Congress 1955-1976. Alexander, Neville (1986), "Aspects of Non-Collaboration…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… Visually it is very satisfying. It may not be a great work of art, but it is certainly a fine Memorial, beautifully … Scottish in the First World War,…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… Maxwele’s radical protest through a political performance of throwing human excrement at the statue of Cecil John Rhodes situated on Rugby Road of the campus…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd Anglo Boer War’ (or just shortened to ‘The Boer War’) is one…
PlaceSudan
… There is evidence of human habitation which dates back tens of thousands of Years. From the end of the 4th millennium BCE, Nubia (now … There is evidence of…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of eight articles which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book The Unity of India …
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during the second Anglo Boer War (1989-1902). He received the local rank of…
PlaceMaphikela House
… black leaders gathered here and forged the foundations of what would eventually become the ruling party of the country. The house was built in 1926 and was ……
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… the British military authorities imported a large number of horses from Argentina. Unfortunately their fodder was … carried Bubonic plague and, between 1901…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… slaves. This country was the world’s largest producer of sugar, but the rise of Brazilian competition and the poor quality of São Tomé’s product, virtually…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… Diepkloof covers an Area of approximately 2,50218 square kilometres and houses a Population of approximately 104 098 persons (2001 Census). It is located on…
PlaceSt Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban
… Jolivet purchased a plot in Clairwood for the erection of a mission church for "C reole ". A larger building was … and additions in 1932-33 and 1944. In…
PlaceSierra Leone
… - Sierra Leone's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. One of the shining stars awarded this status is the Gola-Tiwai Complex, part of the Great Gola Landscape…