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… was also a very important feature of Iron Age society. The Iron Age women were skilled potters. Pots were used for … Division of labour Women were responsible for most of the agricultural labour like planting the fields, and harvesting the crops. They would also gather …

… Many of the essays in the Bonani Africa 2010 Exhibition that straddle the twin worlds of social comment and the exploration of the …

… Before the June 16 student uprising, the Soweto Students' Representative Council (SSRC) was formed. This organisation led the march that the police fired on and came to be known as the famous Soweto …

… The NCAW was established in 1933 by a group of women in … social conditions for Africans. It apparently absorbed the Bantu Women's League (BWL) and Charlotte Maxeke , who had headed the BWL, became the first president of the NCAW. It was not a …

… Brief political context on the formation and history of the SACC ... read on 5 July 1995 statement to a workshop on The role of the Church and the 'Healing of Memories' at the …

… Background On 1 April 1997, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) was … established with a membership of around 515 000, becoming the second largest federation after the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The …

… veteran: Sheila Weinberg Obituary by Raymond Suttner in The Mail and Guardian, 19-25 November 2004, p.36 Sheila … Weinberg has suddenly died. She has been 'around' in the liberation struggle for decades. Growing up with politics, the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg, politics always …

… Photo-documentary Exhibition and Land dispossession history The text and gallery of images within this feature are concerned with the crucial issue of land rights in South Africa. They are … a rural people's Photo-documentary Exhibition convened by the Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), the …

… of Port Elizabeth. It was a community organisation with the aim of promoting and assisting artists through workshops … was formed during a time of extreme repression and under the State of Emergency. Imvaba resisted the Apartheid regime through visual arts and creative …

… # 1956 Women Marchers is an initiative of the  Albertina and Walter Sisulu Foundation and South African History Online to gather the names and stories of the 20.000 women who marched under the banner of the …

… Southern Africa experienced transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries. This was the period that became known as the ‘mfecane’. This topic includes research that helps us to …

… The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition is a … secondary school teachers and learners in Grades 8 to 11. The aim of the competition is to increase the interest in history and to …

… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a 'political miracle' and the subsequent installation of South Africa's first …

… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS -  May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a 'political miracle' and the subsequent installation of South Africa's first …

… The biographical essays are selected from students in a South … history survey course that sought to put Africans back at the center of their history and highlight African agency. … only an overview of apartheid, students undertook to read the biography of an apartheid resister. After getting …

… The relationship between our Constitution and other laws The Constitution is a law passed by Parliament and it is the highest law in the land. All other laws must follow it. …

… " Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the Black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause …

… ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection … Kitchen and Randolph Vigne . Emery also suffered through the significant effects of apartheid in South Africa in the 1960s, including censorship on political writing. Emery’s …

… The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic …

… The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was founded in 1973. It organised in the passenger transport, goods transport, stevedores, motor … security sectors. It was formed as a direct response to the Transvaal-based PUTCO bus company workers’ strike of June …

… For the student Discussion Questions Who was the founder of the Mali Empire? Which city was considered a centre of …

… Thembinkosi Goniwe and Riason Naidoo has awarded the following photographers with a prize of R20 000.00 Chris … , Sabelo Mlangeni, Men only , Jabulani Patrick Dhlamini, The twins , Alexia Webster, Rosendal High There are many essays in the Bonani Africa 2010 Exhibition that straddles the twin …

… The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South … History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences …

… The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism like Capitalism and African Nationalism profoundly shaped the history of the country, and continues to influence the political, …

… The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South … History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences …

… he emerged top of his class. Whether he is documenting the opening of parliament or the night train to Khayelitsha, the inevitable awkwardness that comes from having a foreigner …

… 1936 Hermanus Loots is born in the Kat River area of the Eastern Cape (19 July). [i] 1954 Matriculated from John … in East London, Eastern Cape. 1961 Is recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) military wing Umkhonto we …

… When we talk about ancient times, we usually talk about the period before Christ and before the fall of Rome in the year 476. Archaeologist Somebody who studies ancient …

… features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. The French Revolution: On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in Paris. This marked the beginning of …

… wealthy from diamond mining, set his ambitions north of the Limpopo and tricked Lobengula, the King of the Ndebele into handing over his land. Ndebele thought he …