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Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South Africa has a long and rich scholarly tradition on the labour…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… as a library, before being converted into Durban’s biggest history museum. It boasts two floors of exhibition space depicting aspects of the region’s early…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… the war. The objective of promoting self government for colonial peoples must be actively pursued by powers having … European aggression and conquest has…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… the war. The objective of promoting self government for colonial peoples must be actively pursued by powers having … European aggression and conquest has…
Address by H.E. Ms. Baleka Mbete, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Africa-Indian Ocean (AFI) Region Aviation Conference, Kwazulu-Natal, 24 November 2008
… We should remember that the objective of ICAO since its establishment in 1994 has been to improve safety in … event. The 2010 FIFA World Cup is a major…
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew In … country and when the oppressed peoples of India…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… our own radicals who wanted our struggle to be part of the colonial struggle and who were striving within the Indian and … and it is the duty of historians…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… deny she played an even bigger part in the South African history. During her time in exile she became very outspoken … at the same time he admits “unlike…
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
… for example, was such a well put together piece of our history struggling with funding? Surely the government would … in funding directors who want to expand…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… and costumes in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed … in 1960 and 1961. The air was redolent…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… leaving scores of people dead. References: South African History Online (2011). ‘Bophuthatswana’from South African History Online [online]. Available at www…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… References: Boddy-Evans A., 2011. ‘This Day in African History: 14 September’from African History [online] Available at www.africanhistory.about.com …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… we Sizwe our people were now better equipped to grasp history into their own hands. Born of the people, combatants … are a proud record of a risen people…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… we Sizwe our people were now better equipped to grasp history into their own hands. Born of the people, … are a proud record of a risen people making…
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… turned out to be the longest and costliest strike in the history of the mining industry. The strike was also costly … Click here to read more about the South…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… Lawyers.[iv] Significantly, he was involved in the establishment of South Africa’s democracy and formed part of …
ArchiveAppendix 5.1 The First Anniversary of the Declaration of the State of Palestine by Denis Goldberg
… of the Palestinian people will be achieved through the establishment of the Palestine National State. We look …
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… possessed its own playing Fields and a Permanent Boarding Establishment. The Preparatory School was located in a … http://www.sggs.co.za/About/History …
PlaceStation Building, Point Road, Durban
… number of reasons. Not only did it play a key role in the Establishment of a City and its various Industries, but it …
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… responsible for the construction of 11 other mosques, the establishment of 13 Madrassas and the laying out of a number …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 95th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2007
… a number of important historic milestones in the history of our movement and in the struggle of our people for … progress already made in undoing the…
Statement by the ANC on the Invasion of Angola by South African Troops by O. R. Tambo, 31 October 1975
… transformation calculated to ensure the eradication of all colonial legacies. The ANC calls on the OAU, the African …
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… Unlike Zaire, however, the name Congo has origins in the colonial period, when Europeans identified the river with the …
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… within a new political context. This museum shows a history experienced by the residents, a reality portrayed without criticism or bias, and reflects the…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… as Vietnam and Algeria. 1 What is surprising is that the history of youth in South Africa, particularly those from the … Africa is an interesting case study…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both … issues. The lecture series is in line…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… 'no middle road to freedom’ by Goolam Vahed Department of History University of KwaZulu-Natal - [email protected] One … (1916-1976). The signposts that…
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
… semiotics, social organisation and conflict, responses to colonial conquest and apartheid hegemony, the effects of the … byways of the South African…
EventThe first issue of the weekly periodical ‘TIME’ appeared on news stands
… On this day in history, the first issue of the weekly periodical TIME … languages. It is one of the most popular magazines in history, with readership…