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ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… When Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1960, after 10,053 days of incarceration, people all over the world watched the…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… born into a wealthy family in Cuba. He attended Catholic schools before pursuing a law degree at the University of Havanna, where he also began his political…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… front of a vast crowd of dancing and cheering supporters. The inauguration came just two days before his 57th birthday. The occasion was also a farewell to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. … as the dominant power in the Southern…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose … and political power. As voortrekkers moved away from the Cape Colony to escape British rule,…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in … the structure of the organisation at a meeting convened in Cape Town. The meeting…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts … (1985) Michaelis School of Fine Art –…
PlaceDan Pienaar, suburb of Bloemfontein
… upmarket suburb in Bloemfontein - regarded as one of the safest suburbs in the country! It is an excellent place to raise one’s family. … High School are…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… 2000 January, The partnership is formalized by South African National Aids … in the School of Public Health at the University of Cape Town, present at the…
ArchiveConference Programme: Five Freedoms Forum and African National Congress - The role of Whites in a changing society, June 29 - July 2, 1980,
… Conference Programme of the Five Freedoms Forum and African National Congress: The role of whites in a changing society, June 29-July 2. … Five Freedoms…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… PART 1. The white state has thrown overboard every pretence of rule … armed and trained guerrilla bands who will find ready to join the local guerrilla bands…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… Paintings and engravings on rocks in the open air and on cave walls are called rock art. There is … Museum in Johannesburg. The South African Museum in Cape…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited … Although far more detailed investigation is needed, in the Cape and Natal early converts…
Conference in pictures
… Please forward this page to other photographers by using the send to a friend tab View photographs by Jenny Altschuler from the Bonani Africa 2010 Conference…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… 1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian … protest and is regarded by Indians as a betrayal of the Cape Town Agreement. 9 August, The…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… The following article was written just before the Emergency, … of contact as eating in common cafes, sharing common schools and transport services, and…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… discriminatory legislation against black groups intact. The Immigrants Regulation Act of 1910 consolidates existing … Tolstoy Farm is closed. 14 March, In a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from … is born in Evaton. 1921 Rev. Z. R. Mahabane addresses the Cape branch of the SANNC. In his…
The worst ever recorded floods occur in Mossel Bay and surroundings as 238 mm of rain falls within 24 hours
… The worst ever recorded floods occur in Mossel Bay and … The worst ever recorded floods occur in Mossel Bay and …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… land dispossession and segregating South Africa. The Khoikhoi, San and Black Africans under the British and … and land dispossession in Southern Africa began…
Noncedo Mathibela
… Born: Ladysmith, 1981. Resides in Cape Town. Received National Diploma in Photography from Cape Peninsula University of Technology. …
ArchiveWhat does freedom mean, does it matter anyway? Opening Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Durban, 1989
… Opening Address by National President Mary Burton at the Black Sash National Conference held at Durban on 2 March … freedom mean, does it matter anyway?…
EventA resolution calling for Africans countrywide to stay at home, in protest against the Unlawful Organisations Act, is taken in Durban
… Africans countrywide would be ordered to stay at home. The resolution was taken during a rally held in Durban on 28 … reserved on application to run ‘All…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… 9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) … is born. January, Second Non-European Conference, ( Cape Town ). 3 February, Following…
ArchiveHuman Rights in Namibia: 10 Years after Security Council Resolution 435: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1988
… after Security Council Resolution 435: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 11 March 1988 … after Security Council Resolution 435: Paper…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… democratic system was endorsed by voters drawn from across the country’s racial divide in April 1994. There is little … increasing their support in other…
When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… It is obvious that when the ANC became a ruling party in 1994 we could not foresee and prepare for all the challenges the organisation would face in terms of…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… expeditions between 1497 and 1502. This feature focuses on the first, as it was during this expedition that Vasco da … Khoikhoi threw spears, wounding Da…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… David Goldblatt's photographs have borne witness since the late 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of his pictures are in a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao of India New Delhi, 25 January 1995
… and Gentlemen. May I express my heartfelt appreciation at the very warm and moving welcome which the Government of India has extended to us as…