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ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… Becker, Namibian Women’s Movement 1980 to 1992: From Anti-colonial Resistance to Reconstruction (Frankfurt: IKO, 1995), … 2014), 76. ↵ [3] Marion Wallace …
ArchiveSpeech at the Unveiling of the Samora Machel Memorial, Mbuzini, Tuesday 19 January 1999
… was struggling to be born amidst the death throes of the colonial and apartheid order. And we grieved with all who … with similar efforts throughout our…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… much discussion in the Volksraad of the ZAR, regarding the establishment of a University. These plans were interrupted … treasure of South Africa . "To…
PlaceTouwsrivier
… https://www.karoo-southafrica.com/koup/touws-river/history-of-touws-river/ …
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… The building was designed in 1889, two years after the establishment of the town of Boksburg by Sytze Wierda, the …
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… people in support of our big political objectives - the establishment of non-racial democracy based on the United …
EventSouth African Library Week is held from 22 - 27 March 2010 to make people aware of the value of libraries
… South African Library Week was chosen to coincide with the establishment of the National Library of South Africa on 20 …
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… constitution in 1993, Buthelezi had been calling for the establishment of a federal state with much power given to …
Debating Lineages of Socialism in Africa Webinars
… South African History Online, the Wits History Workshop, the Department of History at the University of the Free State, the Department …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… Our freedom is also giving impetus to the recovery of our history. Recent excavations, together with earlier work, are freeing our understanding of the past…
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… the excellent beadwork artifacts made by its women. The history of KwaMsiza has its roots in the ZAR-Ndzundza War of … and the livery of our national…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… has been seen by some as a turning point in South African history. Kgosana agreed to disperse the protestors in if a … march is seen by many as a turning…
Public dialogue: Cultural Erasure & Memory Reclamation
… youth come together to reflect on the lasting impacts of colonial erasure and the power of memory, language, and …
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… mine for gold. [vii] On Friday, 1st March they went to the Colonial Office (accompanied by Maund as interpreter) where … October 1893, 13 December 1893. ↵ …
Address on the Occasion of the Torch Handing Over Ceremony, “From Rio to Johannesburg” , 25 June 2002 Rio De Janeiro
… regard to a variety of matters, including freedom from colonial and white minority domination, the environment and … of the world in this historic city to…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… Indian passive resistance of 1946-48 was a landmark in the history of the South African liberation struggle. It was the … Pandit, was not easy. Much of the…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… a naÁ¯ve NAD official named Prinsloo, called for the establishment of “thousands of school committees”, and … than the few paragraphs I can provide in this…
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General Pretoria, 18 August 1998
… been enriched by the ethos of co-operative governance. The establishment of a forum that brings together the chief … consulted with the Cabinet about the…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… 'Buffer strips', which separated these residential Areas. Establishment of Manenberg, an apartheid styled township … by the 1976 riots and agreed that…
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
… settled in these Villages after the War of 1850, by the colonial authorities. The starvation and hardship caused by … place here over the years, and the…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… black dispossession - it is impossible to discuss the history of women's suffrage in South Africa without becoming … group took first place, proving a major…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… because they still had access to land. In later years the colonial frontier expanded and the Zulu’s were forcefully …
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… enthusiastic demands for political independence from colonial powers that swept across much of the African … Total Nigeria ”“ The History of Nigeria (Online)…
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… settlers flooded into the area. The Ovaherero chafed under colonial rule and on 11 January 1904 they rose in rebellion. … Klausdierks The Colonial Period…
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… He subsequently fled the colony, but three of the colonial troops were killed in a clash on the Bushman's River … of South African Biography , v.2, Pretoria:…
EventDutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed
… by the States-General of the Netherlands to carry out colonial activities in Asia. With its headquarters in …
ArticleThe San
… through the Stone Age, and it is tempting to say that the history of the later Stone Age is the history of the San. This can only be done at a very broad ……
PlaceClarens, Eastern Free State
… This became a Village and was named Clarens after the History that President Paul Kruger was in voluntary exile for … of Clarens. The uniquely shaped rock…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… moved to Lenasia from Fordsburg and other areas. The establishment of Extension 2 cemented the idea of an Indian … Indian Township of Lenasia. It is NOT only…
Grade 7 Archive
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid …