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Article1956 Women Marchers
… # 1956 Women Marchers is an initiative of the Albertina and Walter Sisulu Foundation and South African History Online to gather the names and stories of the…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750
… Southern Africa experienced transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries. This was the period that became known as the ‘mfecane’. This topic … at this time…
ArticleSweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU)
… The Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU) was established in 1974 with the help of the Urban Training Project (UTP). Amongst its founder …
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs , this was a union of women factory workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and 1930s…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… University, She is majoring in history and biology on the Pre-Med Track. Her passion is to read and go on long, … she hopes to work with Doctors without…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… The General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF) was formed … trade union, as a consequence black workers joined the benefit fund as it functioned as a cover…
ArticleIsitwalandwe/Seaparankwe Award
… Isitwalandwe/Seaparankwe is the highest honour awarded by the people of South Africa, through the African National Congress, to …
ArticleMafika Pascal Gwala Annual Lecture
… The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South … History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal …
ArticleMafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017
… The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South … History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal …
ArticlePAC’s African Women’s Organisation
… The aim of the African Women's Organisation is to rally African women under the banner of African Nationalism and to educate women socially, …
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… January 1976, a group of people with Mosima Sexwale are taken by two cars a Fiat … Siphiwe Nyanda tells his parents about his plan to leave the country…
OSEO report on Allan Boesak
… Office of Serious Economic Offences Report The Scandinavian donors got the Johannesburg legal firm, Bell, Dewar & Hall, to …
ArticleSoweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC)
… Before the June 16 student uprising, the Soweto Students' Representative Council (SSRC) was … fired on and came to be known as the famous Soweto Revolt of…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project
… with McGill and Southern Methodist Universities. The project involved students undertaking individual … with SAHO researchers who supported this project. …
ArticleEarly civilisations
… In various parts of the world, different civilizations arose. Many of these … of these civilizations may be found in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The…
Assessment task: Fascism and Nazism
… (Deutsches Historisches Museum) Question 1: Refer to the photographs of Hitler in Source A. These photographs were used in anti-Hitler propaganda leaflets…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… The Yusuf Dadoo timeline includes the history of one the leading members of the South African communist movement. Starting at the …
Internal Security Amendment Act No 79
… This Act removed the requirement that internment be linked with states of emergency. It amended five other Security Acts and embodied the 1967 Suppression of…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… July, Billy Nair was detained following police allegations of an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) plot, code-named Operation Vula , … nine others but granted indemnity…
African Art Centre
… The African Art Centre is a non-profit organisation based in KwaZulu-Natal . Founded in 1959, it was under the leadership of Jo Thorpe for the first 30 years…
ArticleClassroom: Educational sites for learners and educators
… for use as an extra resource and as an 'activity' tool for the classroom, aimed at school kids. South African Educational Portal Welcome to the Thutong…
ArticleTimeline Interim Constitution 1991 to 1993
… 1991 On 13 November 1991, Nelson Mandela announced that the first constitutional talks would take place on 29 and 30 November at the World Trade Centre in…
ArticleContemporary South African Artists
… For the month of August 2016, in honor of women, South Africa History Online (SAHO) began … in an effort to highlight women artists who were active in the…
ArticleBonani Africa Online Exhibition 2010
… Many of the essays in the Bonani Africa 2010 Exhibition that straddle the twin worlds of social comment and the exploration of the everyday. The …
Grade 5 Archive
… features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. Provincial histories In this topic we will look at the heritage and identity of…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 4: Communication through time
… how communication has changed over time and how many forms of communication have stayed the same. We first learn about the oldest forms of communication,…
Grade 9 Archive
… features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. Human rights issues during and after World War II: When reading about the Holocaust…
Gallery
… This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from 1900…
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… In 1973, Natal women formed a federation of Black women after Fatima Meer returned from the USA, where Black American women were moved by the problems faced…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 2: Learning from leaders
… a good or great leader, and how we can learn from them. The CAPS curriculum emphasizes Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi as great leaders, focusing on…