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Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… to sell not news so much as a party line.’ [1] The history of the press houses and their publications is a … and a decade later, in 1904, Hofmeyr retired…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… key player in the IUEF, appointing him deputy director, a post that gave him control of a huge fund. Williamson … my Life, by Mary Benson; The Struggle for a…
PlacePorterville
Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was inhabited by San and Khoikhoi peoples. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established a small colony on the Cape of Good…
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… Colony. The Cape Colony , started off as a small trading post run by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from the … to rest, do repairs and restock on…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… and brothers, adopt the Charter." This was a colossal colonial fraud. Fifty-seven years after this deception, there … the meeting was with the Afrikaner…
PlaceNiger
… the Tamashek language.) One of the central themes of the History of Niger is the interaction between the 'Tuareg' and … fair portion of the sedentary south…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of the liberation forces in South Africa. Nothing in the history of the liberation movement in South Africa quite … constituted the most representative…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… lieutenants have at last recognised the iniquity of the colonial and racist apartheid system and acknowledged the … but whose real and sole intention is to…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… lieutenants have at last recognised the iniquity of the colonial and racist apartheid system and acknowledged the … but whose real and sole intention is to…
Secret Ballot
… and Busy_ness men. Set during the period of post the 2014 South African elections campaigns, this …
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko’s death
… police investigation into Steve Biko's death as well as a post-mortem report submitted to the Attorney General of the … E.E and Andor, L.E, (1999), …
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… of his keen interest and deep involvement in tertiary and post-graduate studies. He was made an honorary life member of …
PlaceGwali Mission
… a tributary of the Tyumie River. Also known as Tyumie Post and Chumie Mission. James Backhouse reported in February …
EventGeneral Christiaan de Wet attacks Rooiwal railway station during the South African War
… by 1 000 men with four guns and he called upon the post to surrender within ten minutes. The British commander … the Generalship of the Boer Commanders’ ,in…
Article1956 Women Marchers
… Albertina and Walter Sisulu Foundation and South African History Online to gather the names and stories of the 20.000 …
ArticleHuman evolution
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid …
EventQueen Victoria of Britain approves Charter for Rhodes
… On this date the British Colonial Secretary addressed a dispatch that Queen Victoria …
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … of Asiatics, who had to refer the applications to the Colonial…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… Vuren, Lani. “Buchuberg: Built on the Backs of Men”, Water History, (Vol 8), (No. 2), (2009), 27. ↵ [9]Van Vuren, Lani. “Buchuberg: Built on the Backs of Men…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… for the development of a more pro-poor and egalitarian post-apartheid developmental path. I divide my argument into … to tell them what to think. They had…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… destitution of our peoples that is the heritage of colonial and imperialist domination and the continuing … the full realisation of the objectives of the ECA…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… They have even known mass graves. In their march from colonial domination to independence they have had to stop by … this graveside here today because 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)…
EventMargaret Rheeder is hung in Pretoria
… and pets. Margaret, despite the evidence gathered from post mortem results and other investigations denied to have …
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… Post the Fourth Frontier War 1811-1812, the Cape Governor, … , ( University of California Press ) pg 72| South African History Online , (2013), ‘ Chapter IV …
PlaceBotswana
… origin (collectively called “Batswana”) whose recorded History can be traced back, to the 14th Century. These … nationalism and the growing demand for…
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 …
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… She wrote major articles and books that would aid anti-colonial and anti-apartheid campaigns with the struggle … government for what it was. According to…