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ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… 1906 11 September, A mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg in connection with the agitation at present going on in the…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… The arrival of Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts, with the latter taking up the role of Supreme Commander of British … over British forces. Several British…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins … Town where he was…
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… Here is a brief summary, but you can read more in the section in Grade 7 Human Evolution. Darwinism Today the theory of evolution is a well supported,…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The anti-trader sentiments evident in the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… Introduction South Africa, called by some people the 'Rainbow Nation', a title that captures its diversity and … September is since 1994 officially heritage…
PlaceHout Bay East and West Forts
… Found on opposite sides of the Bay entrance, on the mountain. Origanally built to protect the Bay entrance! … was yet to be formed. (Today known as Heritage…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg … strike in which I took a leading part was in 1936, in Cape…
PlaceHoughton, a Johannesburg Suburb
… Suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. In fact, one of the most famous residents of Houghton was Nelson Mandela, who … value, to Johannesburg. One of these…
PlaceRiverside
… an eccentric trader who settled in Griqualand East in the 1860s and made his home at Riverside. A notorious miser whose mode of dress was more suited to the…
Links & Partnerships
… All of the below links are to websites that SAHO recommends (and … Centre for Popular Memory, University of the Western Cape Department of Manuscripts and…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… TB in 1988, Nelson's health had been good. At a time when the Press reported that he had cancer, he wrote to Winnie: … foot. 25 November 1979 On 9/5 1 saw an…
EventVerney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
… Verney Lovett Cameron entered the British navy in 1857, taking part in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868 and in the suppression of the … in Africa. Claiming to…
PlaceGrabouw
… as Oude Brug, had been built in 1811. However in 1849 the position of its Postmaster fell vacant and was not filled for the next eight years. In 1852 a new…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… links throughout Southern Africa and an understanding of the social linkages between struggles particularly in … without trial. In 1961 George was elected to…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… in Trompsburg, Orange Free State. He matriculated from the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Jongenskool in Paarl in 1956, obtained a BA in languages at the University of the…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… indentured Indians and as 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came as a result of a triangular pact among three … traders: we please the poorest class…
ArchivePeace in Namibia
… 20th May. Issued by Black Sash. List of speakers. City of Cape Town stamp dated 23/5/2984 authorising poster. …
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… as a marine and portrait painter. In 1848, he moved to the Eastern Cape , from where he took three journeys into the interior, one of which was past the…
Graveside tribute to Robert Shell by Joline Young, 3 February 2015
… I could speak about all the things that you already know about Robert: That he was a brilliant man, that his was the biggest contribution to Cape slave…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging 1910 … 1985 November,…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… musician Gerard Sekoto (80) died in Paris. Often cited as the pioneer of urban black art and social realism, Sekoto … matter, and he painted urban images of…
ArchiveCelebration of a Soviet National Day and Red Army Victories
… black and red lettering. Notice of a meeting at City Hall Cape Town, on Saturday, November 6th. Artwork of a hammer and …
PlaceBlenheim House, 4 Baird Street, Uitenhage
… This imposing dwelling with its notable Cape Dutch features was erected in 1815 as a single storey …
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … By the time sunset arrived, Rick had persuaded me to join the Working…
Chapter 2
… Forunners We have already said that the All African Convention should be viewed as one further … Union (ICU) was born. A strike for increased wages at the…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… The settlement was founded in 1884 by Scottish railwayman James Douglas Logan , who recognised the area’s potential as a stop along the expanding railway ……
PlaceNgcobo
… On 1 November 1859, a day known in the Christian calender as All Saints Day, Chief Fubu of the amaQwathi met with Archdeacon Waters and the Rev John … area…
PlaceNapier
… The road to Napier takes you through never ending fields of wheat and barley, where the endangered Blue Crane can often be seen gathered together … Napier…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… On 8 July 1895 the Delagoa Bay railway line was officially opened by Paul … Its link to Pretoria was completed on 20 October 1894.The railway line was…