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ArticleCradle of Humankind
The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and EnvironsThe Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… wanted to develop into a sandstone quarry. It was only in 1906/7 that Black residential areas were expanded, and in …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charges of…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the …
ArticleZulu
… The last Zulu uprising, led by Chief Bambatha in 1906, was a response to harsh and unjust laws and …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… boarders and offer more variety in their classes. From 1906 to 1916 were the growing years. This was a period of …
Mission Stations - M
MAASDORP, Stockenstrom, Cape: UC. Believed to have acted as an outstation only. MABAALSTAD, also known as EMMAUS, Transvaal: HM 1868 MABETSHA, Ngqeleni,…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… and opened its railway link to Pretoria on 28 December 1906. A severe drought in the area saw the failure of maize …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
Indentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa By Brij Maharaj 15 Nov 2023 Dr Brij Maharaj is an academic…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… South African photography is labeled pictorialism in 1906 when the International Photographic exhibition came to …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
Historical Context to Chief Luthuli Chronology While Chief Luthuli himself preferred another spelling and signed his name without an 'h', his surname is…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… on the war were written in Afrikaans or Dutch between 1906 and 1931. And Die Burger editorialised that a veil had …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
The TIC (Transvaal Indian congress) was first called the TBIA (Transvaal British Indian Association) which was founded in 1903. The organization was later…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
A. The Mineral Revolution ↵ In this section we will briefly discuss the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand and the Gold Rush. We will also discuss how…
ArticleKey sites
Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These included Simon’s Cafe, Goodwill Lounge, owned and run by Pompie Naidoo who brought…
The War
The flag of the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State On 9 October 1899 the SAR issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October the war was…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
Background The establishment of the Teachers’ League of South Africa (TLSA) emerged out of increasing racial segregation in the Cape. While segregation had…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
The Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure of 1930 The (Amendment) Bill is introduced by Minister of Interior as a result of recommendations of Select Committee…
Zulu Community
… zones (also relevant here see ‘Beer Culture’ below). In 1906 a poll tax of £1 per head, known as the head tax, was …
Outbreak of bubonic plague
The outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Cape Town appears to have given a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of preventative and…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
Legal instruments through legislation, resolutions, proclamations and ordinances played a key role in legitimizing systematic land dispossession and…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… participated that day - both British and Afrikaners. In 1906-1907 South Africa fielded its first national rugby team …
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
The indigenous inhabitants of Australia The continent of Australia was settled about 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement, most of the inhabitants of…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
Awards Archbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid,…
List of deaths in detention
Detaining and imprisoning those who went against the Apartheid state was one of the many weapons that the government used to quell resistance. As detention was…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
From 10 to 31 October 2011, South Africa will be conducting its third census since the advent of democracy in 1994. Undertaking a census is a massive exercise…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…