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EventSix PAC members are sentenced for the killing of PAC leader David Sibeko
… director of foreign affairs. He was responsible for the establishment of new PAC offices in various countries, and … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… was "any systematic policy of abuse" but called for the establishment of a truth commission "to investigate all the …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… meetings were held and various telegrams were sent to the Colonial Secretary to prevent the lading of any more free …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the establishment of the African National Congress Youth League … June 1976 © Rand Daily Mail This…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… a silk merchant on the East Rand. While his duties at this establishment were merely to ensure that the silk was kept …
Grade 7 Archive
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid …
Malcolm Phafane
… subject of choice became my community. Given its rich history, Sharpeville offers picturesque scenes such that I …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… Strijdom, South Africa's Prime Minister, pleading for the establishment of a non-racial convention. 1960 16 December, … affairs. Phase 2 (after elections)…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… Khoi society was devastated by loss of grazing pastures to colonial farmers and smallpox. As a consequence they were … of the bubonic plague in Cape Town in…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… am seeking mainly to describe a current in the ideological history of modern capitalism, and am not taking a position … in that context. Indeed, this…
39. Second report of the Natal Indian Congress, 1899
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … report was published in August of 1895, one year after the…
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… base and spearhead in the struggle against imperialist, colonial and racist domination, against imperialist reaction … now embraces one-third of the world's…
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…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… strikes marked a decisive turning point, not only in the history of South African labour relations, but in the history of South African society as a whole…
Negotiations, the ANC Vision of a New South African and the Indian Community Keynote Address by the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… declare to our people and the world at large that our history of struggle, in which the Indian community played no … the issue of violence. Secondly , we…
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 …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2014
… The Nelson Mandela timeline tracks the history of the first democratically elected president of …
PlaceGeorge Division
… been covered by extensive indigenous forests, but during colonial times these were heavily depleted through …
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Fairbairn’s efforts paid off when in April 1829 the Cape Colonial government gave an undertaking to guarantee the …
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… 1894, this is one of Durban’s few remaining links with its Colonial past. It is the oldest licenced premises in the …
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… referred to as the ISL -Jhb) was a turning point in the history of the South African radical movement, firstly … of revolutionary and reformist ideologues…
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…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid … different ways of finding out what…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… its harvests were little better than "average". During the colonial era the country was still generously covered with … east of Cathcart, rose in rebellion…
PlacePearson Conservatorium and Prince Alfred’s Guard Memorial, St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
… that it receives. It was Pearson, he who suggested the establishment of the conservatory for the cultivation of …
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… animals remained. This situation was remedied by the establishment of a Mountain Zebra Park near Cradock, Eastern …
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… Police was to maintain discipline by measures like the establishment of examining piquet's at vital centres such as … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… in no way been acceptable. The commissioners recommend the establishment of an independent commission to pursue this …
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 …