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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… committee member of the SACP, MK Chief of Staff and post apartheid’s first Minister of Housing is born in … (SAFNETU) is formed. April, James La Guma is…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… plus the Hulett House at Kearsney, the store at Thring's Post and Mr. Duke's house in Stanger, were heavily fortified … the Europeans from Greytown down…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… The brighter day did not rise. The darkest night of colonial oppression and exploitation continued to envelop … the gallows. As had happened elsewhere…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… Military History Journal Vol 10 No 1 - June 1995 (incorporating Museum … one has only to turn back the pages of early South African history, for since those…
PlaceTolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
It was in South Africa that Gandhi developed, between 1910 and 1913, his Satyagraha philosophy of passive resistance, and it was on Tolstoy Farm that he and…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
The term “poor whites” was coined during the 19th century, as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land.[1] This…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… Witwatersrand (WITS), and later appointed to a teaching post in the Marico district of the North West Province (then …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… In 1993, an American Fulbright post-graduate, Amy Elizabeth Biehl (who was 26 years old), … South African History Online , ‘St. James Church Massacre’ , …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… to 1960, she worked as a journalist for the Golden City Post and Drum magazine. At the beginning of 1960, she joined …
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… Ladysmith was established in 1850 and served as a staging-post for fortune hunters on their way to the gold fields in … wife of Sir Harry Smith. It became a…
EventZambian journalist, Fred M'membe is born
… founded the country's first independent newspaper, Zambia Post. As the only independent newspaper in Zambia, Zambia Post constantly clashed with the…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… Its construction followed an ordinance passed by the Colonial Administration to regulate the storage of volatile … of the strategic importance Graaff-Reinet…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… as a hundred years. The black race pharaohs in Egyptian history were actually Nubian or Sudanese kings. The two … East Africa. This information was useful…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… Prehistory of the Region Pre-history of Southern Africa Africans who worked with copper … pottery characterised early Fokeng settlements ( see pre-history of…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… raped and murdered on 24 August 2019 by Luyanda Botha, a post office worker. [1] Her body, which had been stored in a Clarenreich post office safe…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… organised to protest on campus. RMF was a catalyst for post-aparthed student politics and decolonial/ transformative …
33. Restrictive legislation against Indians not warranted, 1897
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … from Durban sent a petition to Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial…
Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983
… as a conscious and active part of the anti-racist and anti-colonial democratic movement of South Africa. One of the …
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… encamped, and then renamed in honour of the then-Colonial Secretary of the Cape, Colonel Hampden Willis. But …
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… by the treatment of Afrikaners by the British colonial government and attempted to challenge this injustice … Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, p. 504 South…
Kingdoms of southern Africa: Thulamela
… questions are still unanswered because there is no written history from the inhabitants of the kingdom, and because its oral history seems to have…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… to distinguish analytically between them. In South African history a number of groups with varying cultures have come … school the child is given a picture…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… left its mark on twentieth-century South African history. This is about the only non controversial statement … fashion, as the automatic outcome of South…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… name Pieterson to pass off as “Coloureds.” Under apartheid colonial regime Coloureds were treated a little better than … that were involved is neither here…
IX - The Doctors
… ordered. In the report to the pathologist conducting the post mortem, you gave the reason as follows: 'The detainee … lack of co-operation. Kentridge You…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… set up with representatives of the planters joining the Colonial Secretary, Reverend Stott and the Protector. £ … Indians in Natal was limited to standard…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… (2011) Bibliography Anon, 2011. Letta Mbulu. South African History Online. Available at: … 20, 2016]. Anon, 2011. Hugh Masekela. South African History Online…
PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
… North Eastern Cape has been a pivotal point in Afrikaner: History; Culture and Religion. Many Towns in South Africa are …
PlaceOak-Villa Cottage, Baviaanskloof Road
… The two front steps are still original and an old hitching post stands in front of the building. The later addition at …
PlaceNiewoudtville
… 1901 Boer forces entered the village and ransacked its post office, inflicting extensive damage to its …