SAHO global search
32,550 records
Learning about history through writing
… try to guess which event we are going to look at? Here are the clues: 1. It was a sport event. 2. It happened in 1995. 3. South Africa won a trophy. 4. The…
Christianity
… a loving God created everything. Christians believe that the son of God Jesus Christ, came to earth to guide his … say that God combines three persons in one…
Luli
… Deep Level Mining Only twenty years after the first mine was started at Langlaagte, gold had become the most important industry in South Africa, bringing…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… by historians. Although Lenin can be fondly referred to as the father of Soviet Russia, he is often accused of setting the scene for Stalin's campaigns of…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… The first National Consultative Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 May 1969. The conference has become known as the …
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… The passive resistance movement in South Africa is seen as, largely, led by M K Gandhi and the Indian Congresses campaigns. However, this form of ……
Buddhism
… or have any content suggestions please click on one of the 'interact' menu options on the right. Buddhist monks dress in orange rhobes. Source: sundaytimes…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… “The time comes in the life of a nation when there remain only two choices … Nelson Mandela’s original handwritten journal and notes in the National Archives…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… “Just Transition” has become the buzz term used to explain the socioeconomic need to address the jobs and communities built around fossil fuel industries, ……
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… Morgam Moodliar and Sunny Venkarathnam are detained under the Terrorism Act . After a long period of solitary … charged on 16 June 1971 with conspiracy to…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… examination is published. He failed Latin. June, Passed the London Matriculation examination on his second attempt. Later in the year, he met two…
ArticleSharpeville
… On 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South … at police stations nearest their homes, and demand that the police arrest them…
South African Labour history
… There are different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining industry has often been told as the…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popular in the Nguni ethnic group (Zulu). It…
Journals
… Background and History The South African Association of Art Historians launched a journal in 1987. Accredited by the Department of Education and Training,…
ArticleCommunism in Russia 1900 to 1940
… and Stalin? Background and Focus In this topic, as well as the next , the rise of the two economic systems that dominated the 20th century: …
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… at Wells Theological College. 1939 Huddleston joins the Anglican Order of the Community of Resurrection at Mirfield in West Yorkshire. 1939-1941 Huddleston…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until … and gathering could still…
Petros Mulaudzi of Nthabalala village
… fuel, food, crafts, implements, crops, livestock etc. The skills used to access and create these elements have been … elders to youth. But much of this is…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… 1952 The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid Regime , which in the following years inspires the…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of … playwrights and poets is recognized as providing the most…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1971 Statement by OR Tambo to the People of South Africa on the 10th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe . 16 December 1971 1972 " Speech by Oliver Tambo on the…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… Until the coming of democracy, Nelspruit was a small town that … to metropolitan areas of South Africa. Before this, the town was a point through which…
Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)
… The Institute for Industrial Education (IIE) was founded in … information and skills for effective trade union activity. The IIE registered as a…
Gallery
… This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from … 1900…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South Africa in the mid to late 20th century. During this…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line…
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… NUSAS students set up the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF) in 1972. They worked closely with Harriet Bolton of TUCSA. The aim of the GFWBF was,…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… While looking at the background information on the Russian revolution and the change to a Communist state in Russia, we have already …