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EventSouth African swimmer, Penny Heyns, wins a gold Medal at Atlanta Olympics
… Heyns was part of Team South Africa in Atlanta. She made history by winning both the 100m and 200m events at the games. She remains the only woman in the…
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… South Africa, the last country in Africa to get rid of colonial shackles, attained democratic rule under the … from the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, the…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… was published on the cusp of this key moment in the history of anti-apartheid solidarity in Britain. While … longer one of its marvellous possessions, older…
Tsonga
… with the Pedi dialect. Little is known of their early history. Some Tsonga think they came from the north in remote …
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
… we recall this epic event in South African working class history. Hull, Lewis and Long who went to the gallows singing …
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… emerged. Source: Nasson, B. (ed). Turning Points in History: Book 1: Ancient Civilisations and Global Trade. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Hani , 10 April 1993. Online: http:www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1993/sp930410.html Alexander, N. An Ordinary … Rodney and Christopher Saunders…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… by South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) Oral History Programme. Interview with Frances Baard by T. Lodge, … vol. 3 'From Protest to Challenge')…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… "Irish House", the Museum portrays much of the past History of the region. The Polokwane Museum is a fascinating … Photographic Museum. While here you can…
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from … Westport: Greenwood). http://www.anc.org.za…
EventPresident Paul Kruger authorises the construction of the railway line to Delagoa bay
… World railways of the nineteenth century: a pictorial history in Victorian. [Online]. Available at: … [Accessed 25 May, 2010] Important dates in South…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… Ari Sitas, “Badsha could do in one picture what a dozen history workshop papers couldn’t in terms of the detail that captured the texture of life and the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education
… "This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior … 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and…
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… study of the role of foreign capital in South African and colonial development, and her introduction to the Unity …
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… has since been given over to the National Cultural History Museum. It was declared a National Monument under old … Offices Building, Old Supreme Court, and…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… IS ALSO MORE INFORMATION IN FURTHER READING.) June 16th in history is dominated by the Soweto Uprising (1976), a … country in the months that followed. About…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… Town (UCT). Part of this endeavour involved exploring the history of student/community organizer/liberation icon … was that these ‘subsets‘ of humanity share…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… our country, and thus bring to a close the long period of colonial and white minority rule in our country. It is a … need anybody to inform them about their…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … and Thambi Naidoo, wrote from prison to the Transvaal Colonial…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… to be defeated. In South Africa the whites maintain their colonial rule over the black population, or the majority. The … population are worsening; the…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… of African patriots who were not prepared to endure colonial subjugation. In South Africa, as we know, at the … time when Inkosi Luthuli was born, our armed…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… to be defeated. In South Africa the whites maintain their colonial rule over the black population, or the majority. The … population are worsening; the…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… it to Castro's historical speech at his own trial - "HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME". My Basotho clients complained that … taught and later went into the civil…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… In 1883, the farm with its buildings was acquired by the colonial government who, for a time, used it as a … In 1883 the farm with its buildings was acquired…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… the harsh life experienced by Black South Africans under colonial rule. Linda sold his rights of the song Mbube to …
PlacePeddie
… Mr WM Edge as its first Civil Commissioner. During the colonial era local agriculture was largely in the hands of …
42nd African National Congress Conference: Resolutions, 20 December, 1953
… this Act. 9. Conference confirms its solidarity with other colonial peoples in their struggle against imperialism, for …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… he published his only and much acclaimed book Blame Me on History, which was in many ways similar to Can Themba's short … for Sophiatown (destroyed in the…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… all over it”, claimed Mda. Therefore, there is no proper history of the youth movement of the ANC without mentioning … National Union of African Youth. And…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… The Bureau sought to organise support and solidarity with colonial independence and labour struggles. Its leaders … inhuman. 3. He must not join non-white…