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PlaceMali
Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian regions. Mali is bounded on the north by Algeria, on the east by Niger and…
PlaceCentral African Republic
Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and quartz tools that are at least 8,000 years old. About 2,500 years ago local…
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… top International Convention Centre in Africa for the last 15 years . (Not Cape Town , Not Jozi .) Unesco was looking …
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… numerous deaths United Nation is formed in San Francisco 15-21 October, Fifth Pan-African Congress, held in … Mixed-race marriages declared illegal in South…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… deaths. United Nation is formed in San Francisco. October 15-21, Fifth Pan-African Congress, held in Manchester, … Mixed-race marriages declared illegal in…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… in to three classes based on the Estate System. [15] According to the Estate System, people’s status and … [15] Author Unknown, “France Before the…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… proposals was the state’s assault on human rights since 1950, which had exacerbated the racial tensions in the … the thousands of delegates present at the …
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
Racism in Isolation South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established…
PlaceOviston Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape
… of Bloemfontein . The Dam is more than 100 km long and 15 km wide with a surface Area of about 360 km and a Storage …
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
How does a person place himself in the current South African discourse when he is young, white and male? As someone who ticks all three boxes, this is a…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through example as a political leader,grassroots…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 7 - 'White South Africa.' Two … South Africa's Radical Tradition: 1907…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
… from all. This is the message and the call Ever since 1950, June 26 has become a special day in the calendar of the …
Appendix - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 The Freedom Charter Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on June 26, 1955 We, the…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… was born in Oakdale, Western Cape on the 19 September 1950, the second child of five siblings. He grew up in …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… of the ICU, keeps a section alive in East London until 1950. A. W. G. Champion is banned from Durban. A. W. G. …
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
The Significance of Indian Opinion by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie Department of History, University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
Elizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole MorganAbstractElizabeth Davenport has been an integral part of the Black Sash movement from…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
South Africa's racial policy and the UNOSouth Africa and apartheid was placed on the agenda of the United Nations for the first time in 1946 by India regarding…
Insurrections: The Storming
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
This article was written by Devon Wall and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Customary Law in South Africa: …
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… Nzimande, appointed an independent assessor, last year 15 June 2010, to investigate severe council and executive … that security guards woke him up at about…
ArticleTransport on land
… 12 and a half hours to 1and a half hours. Ford sold over 15 million cars from 1908 to 1927. The first cars were all …
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… a short chain connecting the two. He had been serving 8/15 years when he had escaped, a sentence with a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 15 years, typically…
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
Music is not a zero sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s struggle for a national…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 4 - 19 by Carol Hermer
… the township. Accordingly, only the events from September 15 are dated with any exactness. Maria's Diary, September 6 - … be blackmailed into giving one man,…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… I need to mention is Martin Mabiletsa. Like Arthur, in the 1950’s, he and his wife Deborah had been members of the MDC. … which in terms of the Suppression…