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65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… Coloured people, throughout the course of South African history, have been regarded as neither white nor black, and … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999), Southern…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… on the meaning that one attaches to their place in history and their role in the making of history. Black Consciousness has properly identified the … to…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent history people in the country still remember. Close to 3,000 … of important turning points in its…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… balanced Africans. The speaker touched on South African history to focus the attention of the audience upon the … American writer Thompson: "The…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
… policy, comparative education, educational change, public history and popular culture include four books, four edited … Currently a fellow in the History…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… "progressive" capitalists were on the point of ousting the NP government and taking to the path of concessions. The … George Santayana wrote: "Those who do…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… This is part due to the fact that of all the events in the history of Indians in South Africa it is probably the best … and Christopher Saunders (ed) Readers…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… The multi-ethnic suburb has a fascinating and turbulent history. “Fordsburg was always a working class suburb,” Rich in History and bearing the scars of its…
PlaceCairo, Capital City of Egypt
… Cities! On the Nile River, Cairo is famous for its own history, preserved in the fabulous medieval Islamic city and … was built on a hill by the caliph- …
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… combination, form a mosaic of a large slab of a people's history of South Africa. The 200th anniversary of the birth … the lifespan being celebrated. I don't…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… immersed in the stream of time. As day succeeds day and history bears us onward over its cataracts of change, we … epochs. One may believe that a momentous…
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… The African Political Organisation has throughout its history been truly South African. Its sphere as regards … is necessary for me to make a little…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… the land. For an unpacking of this mystification of the history of exploration. The First Expedition The Portuguese … Prehistory to the year 2000 ,…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… with new forms of cultural representation and a rewritten history. …
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… high school in the centre of Cape Town. Read more on the history of Cape Town . … Aartsma, H (2008). ‘ Early history of the Cape Colony, South Africa ’ from…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… had become the longest and most costly in South African history. After the strike, Anglo American Platinum, Amplats, …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… African achievement. The Africanist revival of African history that centred around themes such as African …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… project to build a comprehensive social and political history of this African community. Origins: South Africans of …
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract The history of the African working class is symbiotic with …
The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
… end of the 1970s. Grace Davie is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. She … the author of Poverty Knowledge in…
PlaceMiddleburg, Eastern Cape
… the old section. It dates back to the Anglo-Boer War . The History of Grootfontein dates back to 1781 when a certain … in South Africa, it has a proud…
PlaceComrades Marathon- 'House' or Museum
… in Pietermaritzburg's architectural landscape. Explore the History of the Comrades Marathon from 1921 when 34 runners … by those passionate about recording…
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
… was relatively unknown to historians of ancient history until his tomb was discovered in the twentieth … could all be used to provide greater insight into…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools … Thereafter, Tiro was briefly…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… the Jewish people of today, we have to be aware of the history of the Holocaust which so profoundly affected them. … racial or religious discrimination. What…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… for liberation and majority rule. Mapungubwe [link to History classroom lesson] The Mapungubwe hill site, situated … early complex African culture, and…
PlacePrince Albert
… in South Africa! (This Pass starts just outside Town.) HISTORY Founded in 1762, Prince Albert's History is deeply rooted in South African Heritage . The Town…
PlaceWorcester, Western Cape
… Kilometers North-East of Cape Town. This town has a rich History covering a time when the Region was inhabited by … Breede River Valley , the Worcester…
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe joins together three periods in our history: the first, the period of wars of resistance waged by … Germany. In no other part of the…