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EventEmily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
Emily Hobhouse addressed public meetings in Britain about the conditions of the Concentration camps during the South African War. These campaigns were aimed at…
ArchiveAddress at 46664 Concert, by Nelson Mandela, 27 June 2008, London United Kingdom
Friends, 20 years ago London hosted a historic concert which called for our freedom. Your voices carried across the water to inspire us in our prison cells far…
PlaceBotanical Gardens, Pretoria
Founded in 1946, this is the home of the South African National Botanical Institute. Thus it serves as a recreational space and also as a scientific research…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
Winnie Mandela, wife of the then imprisoned African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela ends her thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack…
EventA British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to probe racial discrimination in sport
In May 1962 Dennis Brutus, Secretary of the South African Sports Association, wrote to Otto Mayer, the then Chancellor of the International Olympic Committee …
EventThe DG for Transport, Mr. A.B. Eksteen, outlines plans for a marine line along the SA coast
On 24 September 1980 the Director General of Transport, Mr. A.B. Eksteen outlined plans for a marine line along the South African coast, similar to the United…
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
Rev. Robert Selby Taylor was born in the United Kingdom in 1909. His parents later sent him to New Zealand in the hope of broadening his experience. Taylor…
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
Catherina Charlotte Kotzenberg was born in De Aar on 13 January 1910. She started writing books at the age of thirty and chose to write under the pseudonym,…
PlaceBrandvlei, Karoo
Abiekwakop is a Hillock 50 km North of Brandvlei, in the Kenhardt District. A Khoikhoi name derived for the bushes they used, to make digging apparatus. …
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
In May, 1960, the Union of South Africa will be 50 years old. The Government is preparing to celebrate this jubilee with great enthusiasm, but most South…
Duties as Minister of the Interior, Resettlement, Township Administration, Inkatha and KwaZulu politics
Oral interview with Dr F T Mdlalose, KwaZulu Minister of the Interior at his offices in Ulundi. Please note that the times are for guidance only and may not be…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 12) A Charge of Treason When detectives invaded the Congress of the People on 26…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
On 14 March, 1994, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) management committee decided on a new administration for Bophuthatswana. The decision followed a…
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in Ethiopia, the world celebrated the day as famine anniversary. The day was used to…
EventNelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to serve his five-year sentence
27 May, 2013 marked for 50th anniversary of Nelson Mandela arriving on Robben Island as prisoner. On 5 August they were stopped and arrested just outside the…
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
On 28 May1991, Ethiopians People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) captured the capital of Ethiopia,Addis Ababa. The EPRDF was led by the Meles Zinawi,…
EventNaguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo, Egypt. He knew from a very young age that he wanted to be a writer. He began writing at the age of eleven and at 17 he…
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a poet and writer who later became president of Senegal. He was educated in Paris where he got acquainted with Aimé Césaire. After…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
South African History Online believes that history is made every day and to that effect we have compiled what we feel are the key historical events of 2013. We…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
One pound a day for the factory worker who today cannot buy what he makes. One pound a day for the miner who earns his phthisis and goes home broken and to die…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath In the early months of 1960 the PAC leadership launched…
ArchiveUDF Campaign Manual - Section B: "How We Are Struggling - The Methods"
Section B Table of Contents (Page 24)TopicPageOrganisation and campaigns25Campaign planner and map28Anti-election strategy30Signature campaign35How to approach…
EventEthiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
On 28 May1991, Ethiopians People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) captured the capital of Ethiopia,Addis Ababa. The EPRDF was led by the Meles Zinawi,…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana's incorporation following major unrest
On 14 March, 1994, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) management committee decided on a new administration for Bophuthatswana. The decision followed a…
The National Arts Festival
In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They established…
ArticlePan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
Dr. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] "The T.A.R.C…
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
Due to the almost total absence of water, there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and…
EventNames of 303 banned people are published
A government notice published on 6 November 1964 gave the names of 303 persons on whom banning notices under the General Laws Amendment Act of 1963 (the so…