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EventBambatha Rebellion
… tenants on White farms or in reserves created by the colonial government. The tax was instituted to force Blacks … Bambatha Rebellion marked the end of…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… cartoon images of European politicians overseeing colonial holdings with maps of newly independent nations led … It’s easy to overlook the narrative…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history , being a day of commemoration and celebration of the … on 20 June 1950. This May Day rally…
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
… in an attempt to gain popular consent for their aggressive colonial and imperial policies and to distract attention from … of world War One’. Avalaible at…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… lectured at several universities on African literature, history and political science. He was an assistant professor …
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… Côte D’Ivoire is a nation with vast resources and a long history of being a thriving African society, yet its … while afterwards they have been reflective on…
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 … of Information and Broadcasting…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… disarmed at the outset. Judging from a document like the Diary of the Rev. Owen, who preached the foreign doctrines … but rule as we do in India." India”…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… that we are active participants in the making of African history here in Angola at this time. The heroic anti-colonial struggles of the peoples of Africa for…
Work and education
… Province. © Omar Badsha The biggest challenge the first post-apartheid government was faced with, was the …
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… music and teaching diplomas and took up a teaching post in Alice. In 1947, Matshikiza moved to Johannesburg … Publications, Matshikiza moved to Zambia. He…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… domain archival and other documents that relate to the history of the SACP and other left formations; promote new … in South Africa and internationally…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… many figures who would go on to become key players in the post-independence government. It was described in Rhodesian … its strength from a fascination with…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… laws set the scene for segregation and apartheid, and the history of 20th century South Africa is the history of the conflict between whites and the various…
PlaceRehoboth
… to retain a degree of autonomy in exchange for recognising Colonial Rule. Relations between Rehoboth and Germany … out at Rehoboth. This revolt collapsed,…
EventTanzania gains independence
… East Africa was seen as an opportunity for German colonial expansion and by the late nineteenth century, an … had become known as German East Africa. German…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… New Hall, have recently appointed me to a newly-created post in Cambridge, a Fellowship in Inter-ethnic Relations. In … racism is interpreted in…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… Xhosa territory. On 10 May Governor D'Urban extended the colonial boundary of the Cape to the western bank of the … arrangements did not meet with the…
VIII - The Pathologists
… and one hour. The evidence that follows concerns the post-mortem and is given by those who participated. Three … testified to the primary injury sustained in…
PlaceGreyville Racecourse and Convention Centre, Durban
… The History of Greyville dates as far back as 1844, when it … Hotels of Durban's Golden Mile. Greyville Racecourse made History in 1996 when it became the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… the wedding of his friend, Hardutt Singh's, sister, the Colonial Office in the Port of Spain declares him a … immigrant and detain him on instructions from…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… on the meaning that one attaches to their place in history and their role in the making of history. Black … of the commanding heights of the economy, for…
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
… of the South African racist regime. "Few events in the history of the South African struggle in the past sixty years … of forces favouring the peoples…
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
… of the South African racist regime. "Few events in the history of the South African struggle in the past sixty years … of forces favouring the peoples…
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 February 1938. De Post Huys, Main Road, Muizenberg. This building was … by the Dutch East India Company as a military…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… based on extensive interviews with Kuzwayo as well as the diary she wrote while under police protection, copies of …
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… more difficult to resolve. The source of tension was the post-June 1976 aftermath which resulted in the largest influx of political prisoners in the history…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… among the coast tribes. It is not part of this history to look into the forces responsible for the rise of … Ngqika. "I promised I would present their case…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… (and confidentially) to Buxton: "At present the Colonial Government does nothing as to relations with the … an amicable tone and assured his lordship that …
BiographySimon Nkoli
… become one of the longest running trials in South African history spanning 240 days in court. It would be two years …