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ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… and further educating one another on the country’s history, dictatorial leadership and the imperialist forces at … became simultaneously a celebration of…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events, from … Sharpeville Massacre 1960. Two grief…
EventBritain returns the Cape to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle
… Janssens, sponsored development and reforms. In short the colonial history of the Cape of Good Hope from its first occupation in … to the year 2000,…
ArticleTswana
… were also organized into age-sets, or groups of men or women who were close in age. Each age-set had specific … for warfare and herding, depending on age-set…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… isolated people that were considered unwanted elements in colonial society. Among the first inhabitants were political … Among the political prisoners on…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… He gradually saw a link between this tragedy in European history and his own life under apartheid. A significant …
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth, National Cultural History and Open-Air Museum, Pretoria, National Museum, …
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… epic poetry, didactic Christian essays and Church history. As one of the earliest collections of the oral …
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
… not photograph any of the turning points in South African history, such as the 1973 Durban strikes or the June …
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… was an organization that became a gateway for liberal women to oppose government policies, against the Black South … to men, and when the government tried to…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the twentieth anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union, 01 July 1974
… the people of Tanzania along the road of independence from colonial domination. The proud banner of independence was … difficulties imposed on the Tanzanian…
Message on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union by O. R. Tambo, July 1974
… the people of Tanzania along the road of independence from colonial domination. The proud banner of independence was … difficulties imposed on the Tanzanian…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… but “concluded that the time was not right for women to participate in politics” (Limb, 2010: 78). As the … to the hut tax which was imposed on the Zulu by…
America, Spanish conquest
… populations were enslaved, abused and killed. In 1542, colonial laws were introduced to protect the Amerindians. In … most significant and for many,…
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria’s communist movement. Meticulously …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Algeria and France, Claude Bourdet. Tangier Diary: A Post-Colonial Interlude, Paul Bowles. The Fact of African History(II) Islam in West Africa, Thomas…
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… Zimbabwe's pre-colonial history is synonymous with the ruins of Great …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… by Gandhi as one of the most important figures in the history of passive resistance and probably, with A.M. … was attained between Gandhi and General Smuts,…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… Congress of Democrats, the Federation of South African Women , the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the … of Africans, Indians, coloureds and…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… for Curating the Archive, will be part of South Africa History Online's film festival programme later this month. … a post-apartheid society. The film…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … For the serious researcher investigating any aspect of the…
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… hunting wild animals and gathering berries and roots. The women usually gathered food while the men hunted. Source: … emerged. Source: Nasson, B. (ed)…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… was formed when the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) … members of the NIC resigned and formed a body…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Baard and Barbie Schreiner The Federation of South African Women's Papers, University of the Witwatersrand Historical … by South African Institute for Race…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… intervention was designed to move the economy rapidly from colonial extractive industries, rubber and tin, to an … and not judgments, except where judgments…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
… a New Asia-Africa Partnership', we reflect briefly on the history of the colonial mentality, which drove colonialists to act in highly … leaders,…
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… The history of the institution dates back in 1910 when a Museum … in Nairobi by the then East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society [currently the East…
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… has subsequently been published; The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa by Robert Ross. This book provides a … of a liberal constitution for the Cape…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not begin with the passing of … Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the expansion of Dutch…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… health care provided to poor white families. Even though women were originally banned from living on the dam’s … Vuren, Lani. “Buchuberg: Built on the Backs…