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BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… home, with his father often relating the political history of Port Elizabeth during the turbulent 1950s and …
BiographyPaul Alberts
… of the War Museum. Paul Alberts wrote a chapter on the history of combat photography. Alberts compiled and edited an …
BiographyDavid Hemson
… years in Britain, Hemson moved to Tanzania where he taught history. Hemson was part of a group of activists, along with …
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… initiator of a major "advancement" in the visual arts in colonial South Africa, is today largely forgotten by the … it is now possible to take a more…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… and decent housing. I think we will all agree that the history of Brickfields is a story still to be told, because … the dream of a non-racial community died…
South African and World leaders
… South African leaders South Africa has a long and very rich history. Many different cultures and communities live side by … the ANC Youth League where…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… now called South Africa. Although the sources of African history became relatively more abundant in the nineteenth century, its history has been the subject…
Liberation
… Conference in 1994.) The challenge to undo centuries of colonial and apartheid dispossession, repression, segregation … farm evictions, rural poverty and the…
ArticleWomens Rights
… not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as equal citizens. South African women -under the…
Pedi
… sorghum, pumpkins and legumes, which were cultivated by women on fields allocated to them when they married. Women hoed and weeded; did pottery and built and…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the ‘ colonial ’ language of the White Afrikaner oppressor. Indeed, Afrikaans has a violent and racist…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… Legislature. He served on the Association against Women and Child Abuse and the Etwatwa Community Trust. He … [Accessed 21 October 2011]|Seekings, J (2000),…
BiographyJames Kantor
… He usually represented the wife and, at a time when women were second-class citizens at best, he invariably won …
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… would rise up in support of the Boers after Afrikaner women and children were confined in concentration camps. When … TRH Davenport, The Afrikaner Bond: The…
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… The Legion recruited both black and white servicemen and women on the front and at home.Hodgson went through some …
BiographyDawood Seedat
… activism as a member of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW); NIC, Natal Peace Council, Civil Liberties …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… in Kliptown in 1955 to adopt the Freedom Charter and the women’s anti pass march in 1956 expressed women’s abhorrence … marked one of the most important…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… in the colony. The Law stipulated that a minimum number of women in every ship load and ships often waited for days … in accordance with the Natal Act No.14…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… and Wesleayan community and on Sundays one can see the women of each denomination wearing their church uniforms with … tourists a township experience and…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of the liberation forces in South Africa. Nothing in the history of the liberation movement in South Africa quite … 25 and 26 June 1955 were workers,…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… who know as intimately what it means to suffer under colonial domination and imperialist plunder. It is fortunate … compromise nor peaceful coexistence. The…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… representing a rapid process of demolition of a colonial system, was characterised by a breathless succession … the hardest task that has faced any people in…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… W. C. Holden was one of the early writers on South African history to publish a book that used the theory of empty land … Much of the idea of the 'vacant…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… lay out government legislation which is meant to protect women’s rights, arguing that the legislation itself is … Moreover, the legal system places…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… South African History Online believes that history is made every day and to that effect we have compiled … 17 2013 Algeria ANC enforced a 50% representation…
Archive25 Years of Freedom and Democracy: Success , Challenges and Solutions
… a South African rainbow nation. For the first time in our history, we have a black South African springbok captain …
EventCôte d’Ivoire gains independence from France
… The more recent pre-colonial history of CÁ´te d’Ivoire can be traced to the 17th … scramble for Africa, this system was replaced by French colonial rule in…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… it had on historical events. At the time of their rule, colonial forces were at work fragmenting Xhosa society for … of leadership juxtapositioned with the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… against the 1913 Land Act, the formation of the Bantu Women’s League and the formation and growth of working class … (Morris: 2004) Lillian Ngoyi , future…
PlaceDelmas
… weekend getaways, or want to experience similar. Delmas History By Tulani J Ngwenya Delmas is a small farming town … Nkangala under the Victor Khanye Local…