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Sierra Leone becomes the 100th member of the United Nations (UN).
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… group of Zulu women working in a mielie field in th elate 1800's Source18 While the homestead system remained viable , …
BiographySimon Nkoli
… https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/pass-laws-south-africa-1800-1994) of the time made it illegal for the entire family …
PlaceAngola
… and Its Transformation in the Kingdom of Kongo: 1491-1800” in The Journal of African History, Vol. 50, No. 1 … and Its Transformation in the Kingdom of Kongo…
100 Years of the African National Congress by Neville Alexander
PlaceLodge de Goede Hoop, Stal Square, Cape Town
… but it soon proved to be inadequate for their needs and in 1800 they bought the grounds upon which the Lodge now stands. …
ArchiveThe Making of Modern Libya : State Formation, Colonization, and Resistance, 1830-1932 by Ahmida Ali Abdullatif
Herore Heroes - A Socio- Political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890 - 1923 by Jan-Bart Gewald
ArchiveIndentured Indians in Natal, 1860 - 1902: A Study Based on Ship's lists by Surendra Bhana, October 1987
ArchiveA History of Zonnebloem College 1858 TO 1870 - A Study of Church and Society by Janet K.H. Hodgson
Death in Black and White: Suicide, Statistics, and Race in Natal, 1880-1916 by Julie Parle
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
This article was written by Ben Forstate and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship Michael Guthrie Scott was born on 30 July 1907 in the village…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
Introduction Pretoria is located in the north east of South Africa, to the north of Gauteng, and 60 Kilometres away from the north east of Johannesburg [i] …
BiographyBisho Jarsa
Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never…
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
The Reverend Theo Kotze was born at the Heads in Knysna, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 19 May 1920.Kotze came from Afrikaaner stock. His father, a lawyer…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
Parts of it have been referred to as the "Imperial Ghetto" (Badsha: 2001) or the "Duchene" and "Casbah" (Hassim: 2009) or simply "town" by the many who have…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
Celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s life is an opportunity to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of his multi-faceted personality…
Parliament ends its session after 103 days and the passing of 100 bills.
Frame Brown Lung campaign: nearly 100 workers show signs of cotton dust disease
The Egyptian SS Patria sinks in the Red Sea. About 100 are killed.
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… C.R. (date unknown), The Dutch seaborne empire, 1600-1800, The History of Human Society. …
Bibliographical note and further reading
… (London, 1966); D. J. N. Denoon, South Africa Since 1800 (London, 1972); C. F. J. Muller (ed.), Five Hundred …
ArchiveLily White Rugby Football Club Images from 1900's - 1978
ArchiveWinter Rose Rugby Football Club Images from 1900 - 1986
ArchiveLabouring under the Law: Exploring the Agency of Indian Women under Indenture in Colonial Natal, 1860 – 1911
A Most Promising Weed: A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890‒1945 by Steven C. Rubert
EventKip Keino of Kenya wins the Olympic gold medal for 1,500 metres in 3 mins 34.9 secs
Kipchego “Kip” Keino was born in Kipsano, Kenya on 17 January 1940. Keino began his international running career in 1962. From early on he trained under very…