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ArticleXhosa
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
ArticleThe San
The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also known as 'Bushmen', a term…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
1861 Sefako Mapogo Makgatho is born at Ga Mphahlele, Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province). 1870 The death of the King of the Baostho…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the Dutch East India Company to establish an Indian trading empire in…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as foreign nationals, were hosted by the Botswana…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
Glossary of Ndebele building terms APOKORWAN - Eaves overhang AMAKAPA - Roof AMAKAPA IBALELO - Timber roof rafter AMAOBA - Enclosed room located in the…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
Contents Nelspruit the Segregated city Homelands as Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until the demise of apartheid, Nelspruit remained a small…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
Background The establishment of the Teachers’ League of South Africa (TLSA) emerged out of increasing racial segregation in the Cape. While segregation had…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion from…
ArchiveBeware : Any guy could be a spy
Word 'Beware' in red. Black and white image of a man's face with glasses. Red bubble over right eye with words 'Any guy could be a spy' in white letters.
ArchiveThe call of Islam : We stand by the Palestinians
Notice of a meeting at Hanover Park Civic, on Friday 22nd January 1988. Issued by Call of Islam. Image of scales. Image of a woman with a scarf over her head.
ArchiveInternational conscientious objectors day co
Pink, brown and blue poster. Notice of a concert at Wits Student Union Arcade, on Friday 12th May. List of entertainers. Blue artwork of a dove flying over…
ArchiveReduce military spending: build the health system
Treatment Action Campaign poster. Black, white, red, grey and pink poster. Photograph of a fighter jet in side a circle with a cross over it. Also artwork of…
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
Introduction Part A: The unfolding of total strategy 1948 - 1989 1. The many faces of apartheid repression 2. The legal veneer 3. The…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
Location: back to this day in history search archive South Africa received a mandate from the League of Nations over South West Africa (SWA) on 17 December…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
The Suez Canal was opened in 1869. As the easiest link to both the Mediterranean and the Indian Oceans, the canal was of great strategic importance. Situated…
EventWorld War I begins
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
Paramount Chief of the Mpondomise, Mhlonthlo, lured Hamilton Hope, the third resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, and his staff to Sulenkama where…
Document 35 - “New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott: Xuma’s Address to African Congress”, The Guardian, 18 December 1947
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 35 - "New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott:…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Moothen had the following letter written to the…
Sita - Memoirs of Sita Gandhi by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
… dealing with Sita specifically are reproduced. The letters cover a period of almost two decades from Sita’s birth to a …
ArchiveThe abolishing of the Group Areas Act: A political milestone
Statement regarding the abolishing of an Act that displaced approximately 630 000 people and reserved over 84% of the country's land for white people should be…
ArchiveOne person: one vote
Meeting of Association of Democratic Journalists at Dorothy Susskind Auditorium at John Moffat Building on Saturday May 13th 1989. Black and white poster with…
ArchiveDemocracy?: our leaders are jailed!: 80% of us cannot vote!
Black and white poster. Issued by the MDM. Artwork of a magnifying glass over a hand with words 'white parliament' holding three mice with initials DP, NP and…
ArchiveThousands flock to United Democratic Front launch
Thousands of people and about 400 organisations from all over the country came to the lauch of UDF and messages of supports from all organisations nationwide…
ArchiveAn African woman: unite in a common ideal: the total liberation of Africa
Cream, orange and black poster. Title in three languages. Artwork of women, holding guns, over a map of Africa. Pan-African Women's Organisation, Luanda,…
Hamba Kahle Comrade Anton
White poster with red lettering. Black and white photograph of Comrade Anton with two children. Solidarity with Namibia. Artwork of a triangle containing a…
ArchiveCharge Reinecke!!!
White poster with blue lettering. Double blue border. Blue ANC Logo and Blue COSATU Logo. Blue and white photo of Reinecke. Image of a feather over the…
ArchiveWorking on the mines is no picnic!
During the first six months of this year, more than 100 000 miners have taken strike action over wages, bad and unsafe working conditions and the harassment of…