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ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… high school in the centre of Cape Town. Read more on the history of Cape Town . … Aartsma, H (2008). ‘ Early history of the Cape Colony, South Africa ’ from…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… had become the longest and most costly in South African history. After the strike, Anglo American Platinum, Amplats, …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… African achievement. The Africanist revival of African history that centred around themes such as African …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… project to build a comprehensive social and political history of this African community. Origins: South Africans of …
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… ANC is ready to write the next chapter in our country’s history. A chapter of new hope in the fight to eradicate … renewal – the New Dawn is upon us. The ANC…
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… The African Political Organisation has throughout its history been truly South African. Its sphere as regards … is necessary for me to make a little…
PlacePaarl Boys Hoerskool (High School)
… of Paarl Mountain , surrounded by culture and the rich History of the Drakenstein Valley, lies the home of the: … the physical, the emotional and the…
Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… get into the ANC organization and get into the different branches so that we can get hold of the leadership in those branches. Mr Justice de Wet: just a…
PlaceCarletonville
… archaeological site is that it provides a record of social history and evidence for one kind of extreme strategic … as an additional source from which a more…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools … Thereafter, Tiro was briefly…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… the Jewish people of today, we have to be aware of the history of the Holocaust which so profoundly affected them. … racial or religious discrimination. What…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Mohale Dam, Kingdomof Lesotho, 16 March 2004
… Honourable Members of the Lesotho Parliament and all branches of government, Your Excellencies, Ministers, High …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… for liberation and majority rule. Mapungubwe [link to History classroom lesson] The Mapungubwe hill site, situated … early complex African culture, and…
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe joins together three periods in our history: the first, the period of wars of resistance waged by … Germany. In no other part of the…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe joins together three periods in our history: the first, the period of wars of resistance waged by … Germany. In no other part of the…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… individual or group bears blame. This reflects university history, structural differences, and the ways that race still … of African art at Harvard…
PlaceSierra Leone
… The country then became a single entity with a shared history, culture and language called: 'Krio' which evoked out … nation on April 27, 1961 . This was…
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
… the Central Committee with the task of preparing a short history of our Party, Fifty Fighting Years, which was … to our struggle will forever be inscribed in…
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… The history of modern times is the history of nationalism. Nationalism has been tested in the …
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… host a man who has made such a significant impact on world history. Since the first stirrings of democracy in South … Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa, to…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… research efforts: Much research has been done on the history of the Lamont-Hussey Observatory. Dr. Patrick Seitzer … from SAAO in Cape Town and the members…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… movement of recent years. A good starting point in the history of South African documentary photography is 1950s. … gave life to the campaigns and people who…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent history people in the country still remember. Close to 3,000 … of important turning points in its…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… place at the end of one of the most momentous weeks in the history of our country. The events of the past week have changed the course of history of our…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… are not new or something born in recent years. The whole history of the African people since Union is studded with our … insult to injury, extended them, for…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… Epistles may be deeply engraved in South African cultural history, and perhaps even celebrated throughout the African … "This story hasn't been told because…
PlaceWindermere
… with the winter rains and which entered their homes. Oral history accounts tell of this flooding as one of the many … showed that 90% were forced to move to…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
… and friends. This is an important day in the political history of our country. It is a day which should give comfort … wish. To us as a democratic movement,…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
… policy, comparative education, educational change, public history and popular culture include four books, four edited … Currently a fellow in the History…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… The multi-ethnic suburb has a fascinating and turbulent history. “Fordsburg was always a working class suburb,” Rich in History and bearing the scars of its…