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ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… all too clearly our powerlessness at this moment in history, with the forces of aggressive capitalism and ethnic … musicality and technical facility that…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… for those brave men and women fellow resisters of mine. History has ordained that they should be in the forefront in … democratic society. Source http://www…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… of lives particularly among Africans. In August 2012, the history repeated itself when 34 mineworkers were shot and … 1922 mineworkers strike becomes a…
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…
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…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… existence spanning over three decades. We are making history, reshaping the destiny of our country because many, … gathered here in this hall, black and…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… as a whole. As individuals we have been called upon by history to represent the collective aspirations of a people … National Congress and its allies, we…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… know anything at all about the Afrikaner people, their history and their national aspirations. Yet it is impossible … the life of the country. The Afrikaners…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… collection. This is its first online publication by SA History Online. Herein may be a found a memory of the early …
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… an incredibly important but also brutal part of Namibia’s history. Since the early 1990s, the Herero and Nama people …
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… will influence how the society develops. In South African history there has always been the fight for ownership of land …
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… aggressive and self -confident. In short the colonial history of the Cape of Good Hope from its first occupation in …
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… whatsoever’. The TRC has allowed many people tied to the history of the Silverton Siege to take first steps towards …
ArticleBlack South African literature
… Avenue (1959) and William 'Bloke' Modisane's Blame Me on History (1963). Abrahams drew for his inspiration in his …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… sent to Jamaica by the Colonial Office to write a popular history of the Island. 1956 A Wreath for Udomo is published, …
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A documentary history, Volume two 1943 – 1964. Edited by Alison Drew. Part …
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… GUIDE: Southern Africa hunter gatherers learnt from oral history/storytelling and archaeological research. 1. Have …
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… (As quoted in Feinstein, C. H, (2005), An Economic History of South Africa, p.15) The first Khoi-Dutch War …
The appointment of Judges
… http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site /thecourt/history.htm#judges s …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… in the defeat of apartheid in Namibia in 1989. Although history is meant to be 100% factual, historians often differ …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… has been largely ignored in the literature on the history of the liberation struggle. …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… force. Reference: Article written for South African History Online by Peter Alegi, 2004 …
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
… found expression for the first time in the architectural history of the sub-region at Khami, and with it were … many of which are on display in the Museum of…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… and hierarchies. We would then be tested on school history and expected to follow local custom to a T. Over the … the names of all the prefects and captains…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… in the project, and to my old comrade Omar Badsha at SA History Online, whose offer to assist with the electronic … Studies, as follows: From Maingard, …