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ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… functioning credit markets of the medieval Islamic world. 19 The most lasting consequence of the pilgrimage was …
Zulu Community
Late nineteenth century postcard of Zulu Warriors. Note the Europeans in the background. Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… South African Indian Congress (SAIC). Daphne MacLachlan (19 years old) who worked as domestic worker in Greepoint …
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… there had been constant debate around the issue. 4 In 1958-1959, in an opposition journal of the time, Africa South , … was a deliberate fiction promoted to…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Image source In 1959, the Soviet space program took another step forward with …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… click here . << ANC Timeline 1930-1939 ANC Timeline 1950-1959 >> …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… or symbolised women’s role in the arts. Makeba, who in 1959 had starred in the anti-apartheid documentary Come Back …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… Mehta, Pandit Kunzru and Dr. Jivray Gandhi. Wednesday, 19 March Met Nehru: on Wednesday, 19 March, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who explained the altitude … in…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… had just gone up from 5 shillings to 9 shillings a month. 19 Although the town council maintained it had to raise new … while studying in Moscow. Minutes,…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… to the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act No. 46 of 1959, black people were classified into ethnic groups for …
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… Open Golf Championship (after winning the Dutch Open in 1959 and 1960). He was not allowed inside the clubhouse where …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
Chairperson, Your Excellency President Castro; Your Excellencies the Ministers; Your Excellencies Ambassadors; Distinguished Guests; Comrades and friends:…
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
Chairperson, Your Excellency President Castro; Your Excellencies the Ministers; Your Excellencies Ambassadors; Distinguished Guests; Comrades and friends:…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
… also led to various cultural and artistic revolutions. [19] Role of Women: In Indian society men usually had the … Dorling Kindersley Limited, Great Britain,…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… of MK and SACP. Eleanor was detained on August 19, 1963 in Durban under the suspicion of aiding her future … [relived]” her escape “as though it…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… “to show the white man that he was equal to him.” By age 19, he had not only published a collection of poetry, A Black …
Chronology
… day of protest in Transvaal; police intervention (19 dead, 30 injured) May 14 , Conference of representatives …
I - Introduction
… or unlikely, or went contrary to known facts. In a year, 19 detainees died: in the next six months, four more. Yet …
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… Mahomed, A. Ismail and T. V. Rajagopal Pillay. It is dated 19 August 1927. Source: Pachai Collection. It is within your …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
100 000 BC Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In the Sahara Desert region, the people develop the use…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… 1983–2000 1983 - 4 meetings 1984 - 9 meetings 1985 - 19 meetings 1986 - 27 meetings 1987 - 23 meetings 1988 - 32 … took place on 21–24 February 1988; 21–24…
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker On 19 September 1937 a violent collision rocked Vereeniging's … months by natives on Europeans (Rheinallt…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… Imagine, for example, if the Separate Universities Act (1959) had not been passed and a steady flow of Africans had …
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… in Britain and with them was active in the Labour Party. 1959: Married Ellen Rygaardt, his former student at William … take us home by car in such dangerous…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… visited Mr. Goldberg on three occasions during the past 19 years. 5. I should at this point say something about Mr. … and has, through his studies and…
South African and World leaders
… of the duties handled by the Prime Minister's wife. In 1959 she was chosen as the leader of the political party she …
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
The date, December 16, holds a special significance in South African history. On this day in 1838, the Voortrekkers fought a battle for survival against…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
The need for a controlled labour force: Indentured Labourers There is an indentured labour gallery on the SAHO site, webteam please select an image from there…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… NEW DELHI: 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a … 'Countries was convened in New Delhi from April 19 to 21, 1985 to evaluate the…