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Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference Prague, 26 May 1992
… of international funders when they first set up during the 1980s. They are now working against a difficult economic …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… Market id demolished to make space for a new freeway. 1980s The Ooka brothers take over the Shiraz Cinema from the …
PlaceWindyridge House, 24 Newington Road, Port Elizabeth
This is one of the best examples of Victorian Architecture in Port Elizabeth, and is typical of its Town and Houses Built, during the 1880s.
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe is the highest honour awarded by the ANC to those who have made an outstanding contribution and sacrifice to the liberation struggle…
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg on 18 March 1936. de Klerk grew up in a political family. He later studied law and practiced as a lawyer in…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men, Noimbithi Johnson Lubisi 28, Petrus Tsepo Mashigo 20, and Naphtali Manani…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a…
EventBram Fischer is released from prison on health grounds
Abram “Bram” Fischer was a lawyer, chairman of the South African Communist Party and an anti-Apartheid activist. He joined the SACP, a close ally of the…
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
Twenty-five years ago, on 19 April 1980, high school and tertiary students in the African, Coloured and Indian areas of the Western Cape embarked on a class…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apartheid. We hope that our work will…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
The South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo ja Toivo…
ArchiveMemorandum: a study in political heresy
Unauthored memorandum on the history of the Peoples Struggles and strategy and the tactics of the National Liberation Movement and the South African Communist…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Bibliography
From the book: Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education Bibliography Caton-Thompson, Gertrude. Mixed…
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 31 Carstens Street, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
The construction of this double-storey House dates from the 1880s, probably at the behest of CG Prince. It has a number of fine Victorian and art-nouveau…
EventGana Makabeni dies
Gana Makabeni, trade union leader and member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s, died in the Western…
ArticleSilverton Siege
On 25 January 1980 three MK Cadres – Stephen Mafoko, Humphrey Makhubo and Wilfred Madela – were allegedly on their way to carry out a planned MK sabotage…
Grassroots
Grassroots was started in 1980 as the first of a series of community newspapers designed to give a voice to the 'voiceless' and oppressed peoples of South…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
"South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last weekend, will…
PlaceJubileum Building
On President Brand Street Bloemfontein, is the Jubileum building. It was built in the late 1920s by boys from a local orphanage to provide a venue for reading…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
Contents Economic Development and the Expansion of the African Working Class The Quiescence of Political Organisation in the 1930s Mass Spontaneity and the…
ArchiveNUSAS in the 70s. Official opening address at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, July 1970
Official opening address by Mrs Fatima Meer at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Camp Jonathan, Eston, Natal, July 1970…
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
Strike a woman, strike a rock, as we all know. Yet some rocks who have also played crucial roles in making Cape Town the city it is today are so often…
PlaceVictorian terrace House complex, Grove Road and Albert Road, Mowbray
These 9 dwellings form part of a unique Street Block that dates from the 1880s, and consisted of two terraced rows, of identical late-Victorian Double-storey,…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… – Namibia and South Africa. It was chiefly in the early 1980s that concerted attempts to start a dialogue between … The rapid increase of these meetings from…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world…
ArchiveConformity and conflict: Afrikaner nationalist politics in South Africa
Thesis sumitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Oxford University. This thesis includes chapters on the…
PlaceSpringbok Park, Hatfield, Pretoria
The Park was formerly known as Grosvenor Square and was conceived in 1905 when the Suburb of Hatfield was laid out. Development only commenced in the 1930s and…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in Kroonstad, Free State (the former Orange Free State). Lekota is commonly known…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
1928 December 26, Derrick John McBride, Robert McBride's father, is born in his parent's home in Rockey Street, Johannesburg. He is the darkest complexioned…