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EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… African National Congress (ANC) and the government. The Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) and former IFP members …
EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… requested in March 1837 by the Cape's surveyor-general and civil engineer, Colonel C.C. Michell. It took years for the …
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 … and progressive artistic community. The…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… our article ‘ Defining culture, heritage and identity .' History of Heritage Day In KwaZulu-Natal, 24 September has … of National Heritage Day (article)…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… the hardest task that has faced any people in the colonial history of Africa - a movement entrusted by history with a glorious and noble task - the conquest…
EventThe first regular jet flight leaves London for Johannesburg
… route therefore became the first regular service flown by a jet airliner. … Wallis, F. (1952), ' Worlds First Turbojet Passenger Service ' from Geneology, …
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… and another six defendants were sentenced to community service. References: South African Institute of Race …
EventPioneer tomato farmer Bertie van Zyl is buried in Mooketsi
… farmers. Thousands of his farm workers also attended the service. Didiza said Van Zyl played a crucial role in the …
EventThe first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon
… and Peninsula Broadcasting Association started a similar service in Cape Town, on September 15, 1924. The Durban …
ArchiveNatives (Urban Areas) Act, Act No 21 of 1923
… for the registration and better control of contracts of service with natives in certain areas and the regulation of …
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… South African History Online (SAHO) is hosting an intergenerational …
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… South African war, will start here again. The town has a history steeped in bloody relations between the Afrikaners …
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… state of emergency, the objective of the Labour Research Service (LRS) was to support trade unions’ collective …
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… 1. Introduction ↵ The value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors … by recreating images and narratives of the past, history may be…
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
… despite the target set by the Department of Public Service and Administration of 30 per cent. On a more positive … the numbers of police personnel, the South…
PlaceMooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal
… the Rhode House Museum presents a wide variety of local History exhibits depicting formative activities of the Area … centre where - in addition to locally…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… Bold asserts that Fanakalo has also spread to domestic service spheres. [78] Furthermore, migrant labourers … for example, on farms, in cities, and in the…
Displacing Hierarchies: Nation and Universities in India and Africa by Amrita Pande, Faisal Garba and Ruchi Chaturvedi
… brutality. Against this backdrop, we briefly chart the pre-history of the clash between wilful states, market logics, … the British colonies regional…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… along ethnic and/or racial lines. 1932: The Native Service Contract Act. Tenants on white-owned farms now had to … and exile, - Transcribed from the video…
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… laws by delivering political speeches at a church service outside Cape Town. Their campaign came a month after … (Accessed: 10 July 2012)| South African…
EventTrade unionist, Barend Erasmus dies
… unionist, worked for the Johannesburg Municipal Transport Service (JMTS). While at the JMTS, he became involved with …
EventJan de la Fontaine becomes Governor at the Cape
… as official governor of the Cape on 8 March 1730. His service is described as "quietly efficient". Under his rule …
PlaceClumber, Eastern Cape
… site same the Nottingham party of British Settlers held a service of thanksgiving on their arrival in 1820 and built …
ArticleContemporary South African Artists
… the month of August 2016, in honor of women, South Africa History Online (SAHO) began collaborating with Artthrob in an …
Business leaders pay tribute to Mandela by staff writer, December 8 2013
… who are most in need, and of committing ourselves to be of service to the people." In depth: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela … not have achieved the gains it has…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… of our country, because at no point during its entire history has our country been in a better position to confront … the GDP is embezzled by the kaffir…
Archive”Native Union”. Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme, in October 24, 1911
… certainly be an important day in the annals of our Native history; we shall have come together to bury forever the … Peril. (6) Native Lands and Reserves. (7…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 7 - … the status citizenship, which is based…
Albert Luthuli`s message to New Age on 25th anniversary of Progressive Press, 22 March 1962
… out, not giving in on any basic question affecting the civil and political rights of any person, black or white, in …
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, was engaged in a civil war with the ZANU PF liberation movement. The move by … Davenport, T. R. H. (1991). South Africa: A…