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Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 9 February 2023 Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula,…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 21 May 2004 (After National Elections)
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the first joint sitting of the third democratic Parliament, Cape Town 21 May 2004 (Embargoed:…
EventSongwriter, film producer and actor Joe Mafela dies
On 18 March 2017, legendary actor Joe Mafela passed away on his way home from Soweto, after he was involved in a car accident in Johannesburg. According to…
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
Nkrumah wanted to industrialize Ghana within a generation, and everything was on course until the Americans and their British cousins used some disgruntled and…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Joint Sitting of Parliament 3 February 2006 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Madame…
PlaceSidwadweni Village, Queenstown-Eastern Cape
Sidwadweni is a little village with about a 150 people for its population, in the Eastern Cape which has produced a Celebrity! Mthatha - Hundreds of people…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
Introduction Documents In Volume 2 Document 1 Letter from Negro Bureau to Eastern Secretariat, 1931 Document 2 Letter from J. Gumede to International…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
The Leadership of Cosatu, the ANC, and SANCO, Comrades and friends This Workers Day takes place in the year when we celebrate sixty years since the adoption…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in…
PlacePacaltsdorp
(prior to 1910)The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in 1813 as a station of the London Missionary Society (LMS). In 1818, its name was changed to…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
The Façade Finally Falls For the longest time, the national office bearers of Cosatu insisted that they have a firm grip on the federation. After the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006
Programme Directors, Tumi Makgabo and Marcus Ziegler, Your Excellency, President of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter, Your Excellency, UN Secretary General, Kofi…
PlaceDurban Convention and Exhibition Centres
The International Convention Centre Durban (DICC) is one of the most advanced conference facilities in the World. Key factors in the design of this state-of…
PlaceInxuba Yethemba Local Municipality, Eastern Cape
The Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality is a Category B Municipality situated in the Chris Hani District in the Eastern Cape Province. It is approximately 240…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
From: A Crime Against Humanity, edited by Max Coleman THE MANY FACES OF APARTHEID REPRESSION Repressive regimes abound in the historical record but few can…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut (AHI – in English the Afrikaans Commercial Institute) was formed during WWII to create Afrikaner businesses and represent their…
PlaceCacadu District Municipality
Cacadu (Formerly Lady Frere) is a small town in Chris Hani District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town was renamed to Cacadu…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
Kommetjie was established in 1902 when a consortium of Cape Town businessmen purchased the farm Kommetjie from its owner, J Albertyn, and developed it as a…
PlaceVredefort Dome, Free State Province
The Vredefort Dome is the oldest and largest Meteorite Impact Site (Astrobleme) in the World. Formed an estimated 2000 Million Years ago when a gigantic…
PlaceCarmel, George
In 1721 the farm Langverwacht was allocated to Jean le Roux, a Huguenot settler. After a post office was opened on the site during the latter half of 1905, it…
ArticleHow to undertake research?
South African History Online (SAHO) believes in empowering learners, educators, researchers, and independent web users with the tools they need to investigate…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
In January 1912, Pixley Seme, Alfred Mangena, Richard Msimang and George Montsio called for a convention of Africans to form the South African Native National…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
The Star reports that Bophuthatswana's administration has decided not to publish the findings of Mr Justice E.A.T. Smith, one-man commission of inquiry into…
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
The Village of Cookhouse was located on the Farm; 'Roodewal', near a River crossing. It probably derived its name from a small stone structure, over the Great…
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
Indians Can¹t Flywill screen for the first time on 1 February, at 19H30. The 48-minute television documentary tells the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year…
21. Pariah constables pollute Hindus
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Some 29 people submitted the following complaint…
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai There were many estates on which working…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
1908 Scientists suggest that yet unnamed Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first transmitted, from one chimpanzee to one human, as early as 1908 in the…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
From the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du PlessisThis project has been beset throughout by many difficulties,…