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… for Curating the Archive, will be part of South Africa History Online's film festival programme later this month. … On 17 April 2008, SAHO marked the 350th…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… from the book, From Protest to Challenge, A Documentary History of South African Politics. The Launch of MK and the … Morogoro Conference (1969) ushered in a…
PlaceKleinzee, Northern Cape
Kleinzee is easy to find. Take the N7 from Cape Town, travel for about 560 km and then veer left at Springbok, following the course of the Skaap River, which…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… and died in very large numbers. The interpretation of this history in Australia is disputed and debated in what they call the 'History Wars', with…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… granted. Many past difficulties are now mere footnotes of history. There can be no equivocation that the majority of … for the needs of the disabled is…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
… granted. Many past difficulties are now mere footnotes of history. There can be no equivocation that the majority of … for the needs of the disabled is…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal … article in the New Age in London. …
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… men whose names and deeds have enriched the pages of human history, men whom future generations will regard as having … State? These, and others which are…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… was a decade which became a turning point in South African history. Popular protest by masses of ordinary South Africans …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 104th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… the following anniversaries: One hundred years since the establishment of Fort Hare University: now a historic … society. As South Africans, we continue to…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… leadership of the people of Zambia this rare moment in the history of their Party and country - a moment made the more … on Angolan soil. The question may…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… the war. The objective of promoting self government for colonial peoples must be actively pursued by powers having … European aggression and conquest has…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil war was raged between two major … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern…
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… much like the rest of the African continent, was ruled by colonial powers that left a legacy of ethnic and class … at www.independent.co.uk [Accessed:19…
PlacePearston, Eastern Cape-Karoo
… of a Church. Although the Pear tree was significant in the history of Pearston it was not named after the tree but … https://www.karoo-southafrica.com…
EventRocklands Community Hall declared a heritage site
… site was attended by various role-players in the UDF’s history, namely, Allan Boesak, Mohammed Valli Moosa and …
Address to the Biennial Meeting of the Association for The Development of Education in Africa (Adea), Johannesburg, 6 December 1999
… task at hand is magnified when we consider the legacy of colonial education, the long-term effects of the domination … the incorporation of the African…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… workers. To induce the coolies into second terms, the colonial government of Natal promised grants of land on … to work on the sugar plantations. However,…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… The brighter day did not rise. The darkest night of colonial oppression and exploitation continued to envelop … the gallows. As had happened elsewhere…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… Oppressed people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham … bitter struggles against the white…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… Coloured voters to a separate voters’ roll prompted the establishment of the Franchise Action Council, leading later … was path-breaking action which “would…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… Its construction followed an ordinance passed by the Colonial Administration to regulate the storage of volatile … of the strategic importance Graaff-Reinet…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… as a hundred years. The black race pharaohs in Egyptian history were actually Nubian or Sudanese kings. The two … East Africa. This information was useful…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… Prehistory of the Region Pre-history of Southern Africa Africans who worked with copper … pottery characterised early Fokeng settlements ( see pre-history of…
33. Restrictive legislation against Indians not warranted, 1897
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … from Durban sent a petition to Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial…
Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983
… as a conscious and active part of the anti-racist and anti-colonial democratic movement of South Africa. One of the …
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… encamped, and then renamed in honour of the then-Colonial Secretary of the Cape, Colonel Hampden Willis. But …
Beyond the Apartheid University?
… 10. Re-imagining the Humanities in Post-Apartheid / Post-Colonial Higher Education. Application and process of …
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… by the treatment of Afrikaners by the British colonial government and attempted to challenge this injustice … Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, p. 504 South…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… ANC is ready to write the next chapter in our country’s history. A chapter of new hope in the fight to eradicate … retail sector to support local enterprises…