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ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apartheid. We hope that our work will…
Solitary confinement
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner That was terrible. I spent a year in solitary confinement. I stayed there for…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
1993 The Guptas arrive in SA. 1994 The Guptas establish Sahara Computers. The Guptas fund Essop Pahad’s publication, The Thinker. 2002 Jacob…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations…
ArchiveExhibition : let it be done before dawn
Yellow poster with black lettering and artwork. Notice of Community Arts Project at C.A.P. Chapel Street, Woodstock on 1st to 9th December 1989. Artwork of a…
ArchiveMannetjie Didnt They Tell You? Cadets maak m
Red background with lettering in white and gold and imge of a man working in a mine and other mine workers. Words on poster: Mannetjie Didn't They Tell You?…
ArchiveCome to the fair
End apartheid poster. Yellow poster with black background advertising Open Day on Tuesdy 31st May at St. Georges Church, Parktown, by the 5 Freedoms Forum…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… do not believe that black consciousness was placed on the map in 1976. I think that the small group that went to …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
Starting with major scientific breakthroughs during the 1930’s, countries have developed weapons that are based on nuclear energy. The use of nuclear weapons…
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
On 13 September 1960, during the trial of David Beresford Pratt, two psychiatrists gave evidence about his mental condition. The case was heard at the Supreme…
ArchiveRestrictions: A different kind of prison
Half yellow and half green poster with black lettering. Black artwork of a man inside a prison door. Acronyms SCAG and BSIC. Notice of Arcade Meeting on…
BiographySylvia Neame
Sylvia Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and Graham, as well as a twin…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
Dambisa Moyo is a well renowned global economist. Born in Zambia she was exposed to the harsh economic realities that Africa faces early in her life. At…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 Walter returns from his…
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the most hazardous professions, this despite the enormous amounts invested in it and the resulting wealth…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… Millennium Partnership for the African Recovery Programme (MAP) is a plan of a global partnership in which Africa takes …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
Beerhalls have always been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
Looking at the series of large color photographs called “In the Time of AIDS” by the South African David Goldblatt, you may wonder why they are so titled. They…
ArchiveWhose Reality Mr. Botha?
A2 red and black on white, litho; maps of SA with bars; text: Whose reality Mr Botha? thousands of innocent people detained; hundreds of innocent people…
PlaceArthur Newton's- Rock Seat in the Comrades Marathon
This Area has a Plaque of Comrades Marathon achiever Arthur Newton. This is aslo the resting place of many other brave runner's during the race! Arthur, the …
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
[Dr. Jadwat is from Natal; probably from Isipingo and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… place In the outside world because without that we cannot map out the policy for South Africa. Two Camps We must take …
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country Eleanor Evans…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
1994 27 April,South Africa's interim constitution which was adopted in November 1993 came into effect on 27th April 1994 to administer South Africa’s first…
The oldest forms of human communication
Some of the oldest forms of human communication include talking or making sounds, drawing or painting, dancing, acting, and using symbols. From sounds and…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
In September 1993, the South African legislature approved the setting up of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council (TEC) to manage South Africa’s…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
How do we find out about the past? For recent events where there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events earlier than this,…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…