Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women Johannesburg, 17 April 1954. The Charter ...
The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW or FSAW) was launched on 17 April 1954 in Johannesburg as the first attemp...
The South African Students Movement (SASM) an organisation of mainly high school students was formed to represent studen...
Since the early 1990s, June 16, now known as Youth Day, has been remembered, commemorated, and memorialised as public hi...
Introduction The battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in South...
16 November 2023, marks the 163rd anniversary of the arrival in South Africa of indentured labourers from India. From th...
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He wa...
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, who has died, was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous glo...
This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership proj...
The year 1658 marks the beginning of the slave trade at the Cape colony. During the first four years of the Dutch East ...
In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, ...
The SS Clan Stuart was blown ashore in 1914 between Glencairn and Simon's Town, along Cape Town’s west coast. The SS in ...
The Arniston was built on the River Thames, England in 1794. It was a three-decked and three-masted British East Indiam...
The Johanna, or Joanna, was a British East Indiaman vessel sailing from Kent, England, to Surat, India, under the comman...
May Day celebrated on 1 May annually, is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history, being a day of ...
In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, an...
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 ...
‘Strijdom, you have tampered with the women, You have struck a rock.' So runs the song composed to mark this ...
It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as eq...
This article was written by Ashley Schumacher and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership ...
According to the EFF’s publication ‘The Coming Revolution’, Julius Malema had earned the title of Commander-in Chie...
This is a semi-urgent application for final interdictory relief against the respondents (Economic Freedom Fighters, ...
The International Socialist League (ISL) was formed in September 1915. It was created by a progressive faction of the So...
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The...
The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The role played...
PAC Presidents from 1959 - present President Period Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe 19...
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