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EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… IFP in the period leading to and during negotiations for a post apartheid settlement. A month before King … non, (n.d.), 'The History of Apartheid in…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… into South Africa on 27 April 1994, after the first post-apartheid elections. Along with Transkei, it became part … for the victims of Bisho massacre’ , from…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… Churchill to work as a war correspondent for The Morning Post, in which he was to cover the occurrences of the …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… residence. Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Post 1948: Institutionalising Apartheid & the Apartheid Laws …
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I'Ons (85) dies
Frederick Timpson l'Ons (85), SA painter of the early life in the Eastern Cape, died in Grahamstown. He was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15…
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… Other issues discussed at the conference included colonial boundaries, the role of the traditional and …
PlaceGoshen
… of Imperial Germany - which I am sure worried the British Colonial Office. This explains why in 1885, 5000 British …
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The … capital investment -characteristics of modern…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… and 1933. It was the worst economic disaster in American history. Farm prices fell so drastically that many farmers … Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only…
First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… to the materialistic conception, the determining factor in history is, in the final instance, the production and … he set are central drivers of the process…
PlaceAuwal Masjid, Cape Town
The Auwal Masjid, is the first and oldest Mosque built in South Africa. This is evident according to very strong oral tradition which also confirms that Imam…
PlacePringle Bay, Cape Overberg
The little seaside village of Pringle Bay is one of the towns set within the natural beauty of the Kogelberg Biosphere, the only reserve in South Africa to be…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… people in the world. We were on the wrong side of history. History had placed us on the back of the tiger of white … to the kind of tyranny and chaos that…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… that went to Africa? Some of them have presented us in history with tales of persistence, valor and extreme … from Malabar who is otherwise titled the ‘Damon…
Statement of the ANC Veterans League Inaugural National Conference, 6 December 2009
… Veterans League shall seek to restore and capture into our history, so that all future generations may know the … League seeks to position itself as the…
Speech by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande at SAHO Graduate Internship Programme launch, 30 October, 2012
… Launch SA History Online Internship Project. We have been giving lots … those involved in a largely intellectual pursuit such as History. In this…
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
… South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in 1985. South African History Online (SAHO) is marking this anniversary by: … with the Durban University of Technology …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris
… and South Africa to free themselves from racial and colonial domination, exploitation and aggression. It stands … democracies of all time should choose to go…
Victory is Within our Grasp: Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa by O. R. Tambo, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
… and South Africa to free themselves from racial and colonial domination, exploitation and aggression. It stands … democracies of all time should choose to…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… anniversary of the beginning of a defining epoch in our history, the Satyagraha campaign, initiated right here in … the ranks of the resisters. ( www.anc.org…
PlaceGrabouw
… A Post Office was opened at Palmiet River on 1 January 1846, …
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… the Director of the Egyptian Council for Human Rights, a post which he currently holds. …
EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… of the Prosecutor for Gbagbo's involvement in the 2010 post-election violence. Gbagbo had refused to relinquish … Cook, N. 2011. Cote d'Ivoire's Post…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new democratic order. The …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… to protest against the Natives' Land Act. They are met by Colonial Secretary, Rt Hon. L. Harcourt who concludes that …
PlaceSwakopmund, Namibia
… From sandboarding down towering dunes to exploring German colonial architecture, there’s something for every Historian … Swakopmund is a beach resort and an…
PlacePort Alfred
… https://portalfred.co.za/things-to-do/history/ https://www.kowiemuseum.co.za/43-air-school/ …
PlaceWestern Sahara
… mid-19th Century, although in 1476 a short-lived trading post, Santa Cruz de Mar Pequeña, was established by Diego …
Challenges facing workers and unions: The role of the ANC by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… as previous economic analysis has made clear. The enclave colonial economies and the processes of development and … the global system presently. Those…
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… blow for MK. A group of gifted young commanders from the post-1976 generation was lost. It was they who had executed … was “the longest sustained insurgency…