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Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… to all South Africans who care deeply about their history, and take a keen interest in the diverse and … story that either re-wrote or else virtually erased…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 4 - … shown itself in China and which must…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… forging of a united, non-racial assault on the Apartheid colonial regime. The colonial apartheid regime responded to … formation of the United Democratic…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… forces, this book is a contribution to their courageous history by a woman who is herself a part of that history. “a history of struggle told from it's heart…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… and it stands tall as a testimony to the constructive history of South Africa. The thatched roof revolves to allow … popular tourist spot for young and old,…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… was a South African trade union whose short but intense history was shaped by many forces, both in the general … the ANC/SACP aligned Kganare camp • …
The National Anthem
… note that the sheet music is in .pdf format (245 KB). History A proclamation issued by the (then) State President …
ArticleRock Art
… possible (Lewis-Williams, D. 1981). Ethnology and oral history has been used to obtain information about "Bushman" …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… seen some of the most turbulent events in South African history, the first signs that the apartheid regime would not …
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… between 1750 and 1850. Change is the driving force in history. Without change there would be no progress. As a …
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… [i] Wright, E. (ed.). 2015. Oxford dictionary of world history. United Kingdom: oxford Press. page 536 ↵ [ii] …
Formation and launch of the UDF
… 1983 the UDF leadership sought unions support. ( For more history on the UDF, click on the hyperlink above. ) Growing …
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… that, instead of being themselves subjects and creators of history as they have been led to believe, they have in reality, to a great extent, been objects of…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… cartoon images of European politicians overseeing colonial holdings with maps of newly independent nations led … It’s easy to overlook the narrative…
PlaceKopanong Local Municipality, Free Sate
The Kopanong Local Municipality is a Category B Municipality situated within the Xhariep District of the Free State Province. It is the largest of the three…
Appeal by Oliver Tambo to the people of the world on the 75th anniversary of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987
… of the oppressive and evil system of white minority colonial domination and its replacement by a new democratic …
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… 1994. Apartheid grew out of racial segregation under Dutch colonial rule and took shape under the National Party, which …
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… array and fusion of international-class, ultra-modern and colonial-style accommodation that lines Durban’s beachfront. … . Boston: American Board.|Baumann,…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… Port. However, by the beginning of the 20th Century, the History of removals and marginalisation had begun! The first …
PlaceKwaxolo Cave Adventures, South Coast
… shelters for indigenous San communities , with the history of these people echoed in the rock paintings evident … must be inclusive of all communities, and…
PlaceHotazel
… one of the world’s largest manganese reserves. The modern history of the town began in 1915, when a team of land … vehicles’ frames and their battery…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… survive in Southern Africa, the one above at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo and the other in the Museum Africa … deteriorated and in 1964 it was sent…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… 24 May 2012) Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day In African History’, from About Africa History, [online], available at www.afriacanhistory.about.com …
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… World Cup finals. References: Resha R. (1957), 'Sporting History is Made' from New Age, 14 March 1957 (Available at … 'Football in South Africa - timeline'…
EventDr. Rhoodie is arrested
… The information scandal: africacrime-mystery.co.za History: south-african-hotels.com South African History Online: sahistory.org …
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… where she is said to have developed a profound interest in history. Campbell was well known for her private collection … to write their family stories, in…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… in South Africa. Click here to read our This Day in History entry: Major political organisations sign the … here to read the resolution. References: South…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… is primairly a collection of portraits it is also a 'history-in-the-round' of the last sixty years, as seen from a … on the same events creates a three…
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… of the Eastern Cape province. Stutterheim has a rich history that makes for fascinating reading. From the Xhosa … any African literature and fiction for…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… Visitors who wish to explore South Africa’s politics and history, may opt for a number of organised social, historic … tours. These tours take you back in…