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ArchiveSpeech by Pallo Jordan on the Occasion of the 3rd Annual Oliver Reginald Tambo Memorial Lecture, University of Fort Hare, 5 October 2017
ArchiveUniversally Comprehensible, Arrogantly Local by Wiebke Keim
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
A packed courtroom clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of a window in John…
ArchiveList of Members of the Satyagraha Movement
The chapter was taken from the book Pioneers of the Satyagraha, Indian South Africans Defy Racist Laws, 1907 - 1914 by E.S. Reddy and Kalpana Hiralal
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
Two different current Narratives refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd…
ArchiveStaffrider, Vol. I No. I March 1978
Audio - An Evening with FW de Klerk – the Full Event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
It’s 28 years ago that FW became leader of the National Party and he won against Barend du Plessis. Has Barend du Plessis got a home on Lake Geneva? Not that…
Mafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture
ArchiveCollected Poems by Mafika Pascal Gwala edited by Mandla Langa and Ari Sitas
ArchiveStaffrider Presents: South Africa Through the Lens - Social Documentary Photography
History Access Honours, Master’s and PhD Scholarships
ArchiveFull Frame - South African Documentary Photography Vol. 1 No. 1 June 1990
Archive“Lions and Jackals“ Peace Parks in Southern Africa and their Effects on the local Population - An Analysis based on the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park by Robert Konrad
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
Unit 731. Sound familiar? Probably not. Until recently, I didn’t know what they were. Or what they did. Unit 731 was a Japanese military unit responsible for…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
Simon van der Stel, arguably the first coloured Governor of the Cape, was a farming development visionary, who simply from a position of strength declared the…
PlaceFirst & Second River Temple's
The First River Temple, built the banks of the Umbilo River, near Bayhead Durban, in 1875. This is the first Hindu Temple that was built in Africa. It was…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
Strike a woman, strike a rock, as we all know. Yet some rocks who have also played crucial roles in making Cape Town the city it is today are so often…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
A new book reveals how ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize tried to manipulate President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser into dropping the charges against him. …
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
The presidential contender says he saw Jacob Zuma as an older brother and treated Khwezi as he would a daughter. Presidential contender and ANC treasurer…
Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017
Cape Town - ANC treasurer general, Zweli Mkhize, says the ANC leadership should have been consulted on President Jacob Zuma's cabinet reshuffle on Thursday…
Roseberry Sonto interviewed by David Bailey, Cape Town, 2007
Rose Sonto describes student organizing in his high school in Malteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 1969, well before the Soweto Uprising of 1976. The main…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
This paper is an attempt to work out what seems to me to be some of the implications of the concept "Black Power". It covers a vide range of problems, and is…
Public Screening: I Am Not Your Negro
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…