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Cape Town, Western Province

Cape Town, Western Province

Cape Town is a modern City with high-rise office Buildings and pedestrian Malls. Although it is a major Political and Ec...

Soweto, Johannesburg

Soweto, Johannesburg

Soweto is an urban settlement or 'Township' in South Africa, South West of Johannesburg, with a population of approximat...

Gqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay

Gqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay

Port Elizabeth is now known as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an ...

Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal

Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal

Durban is South Africa’s third-largest City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World. Construction work o...

Pretoria, now known as Tshwane

Pretoria, now known as Tshwane

Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital, was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius and named for his father, An...

Robert Sobukwe

8 February 2026

Teacher, lecturer, lawyer,  Fort Hare University SRC President, secretary of the ANC branch in Standerton, founding...

Heritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?

Heritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?

18 November 2025

BackgroundHeritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are encourage...

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu

15 October 2025

Outspoken critic of apartheid, teacher, author, lecturer, Nobel Prize winner, former Archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

19 September 2025

Lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, banned person, ANC member, SACP member, MK Commander in Chief, 1956 Treason Trialist, R...

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

19 September 2025

Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist

1946 African Mineworkers Strike

1946 African Mineworkers Strike

18 September 2025

"Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the fami...

South Africa and the Olympic Games

4 September 2025

BackgroundWhat is today referred to as the “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival celebrated in honour of the Gr...

United Democratic Front (UDF)

The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was...

Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960

Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960

At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President Genera...

Liberation Struggle in South Africa

Liberation Struggle in South Africa

Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was rife in South Africa long before that date. This sp...

Polokwane

Polokwane is the capital city of Limpopo. Where the youth uprising occures in Soweto in 1976. 

Nelspruit

A quaint little town, near the Kruger National Park. Known now as Mbombela, which has a World Cup Stadium. This stadium ...

Bloemfontein, Capital City of the Free State Province

Bloemfontein, Capital City of the Free State Province

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, to English parents.

Abdullah Abdurahman

Abdullah Abdurahman

13 December 2024

Medical Doctor, Cape Muslim leader & founder of the anti-apartheid movement, African People's Organisation and human...

Stephen Bantu Biko

Stephen Bantu Biko

13 December 2024

Member of the SRC at University of Natal (Non-European section), first president of SASO, Chair of SASO Publications, Bl...

Bisho Massacre 1992

Bisho Massacre 1992

13 September 2024

At a time when the country was in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992, the Bisho Massacr...

Jan Gerard Sekoto

Jan Gerard Sekoto

13 September 2024

South African artist and musician

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo

6 September 2024

Medical doctor, banned person, political prisoner, exile,President of the Indian Social Reform Society, Chair of the Mad...

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu

Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956. He was the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father l...

John Langalibalele Dube

John Langalibalele Dube

Educator, politician, author, minister of the Congregational (American Board) Church, founder member and first president...

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

Walter Ulyate Sisulu

South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and one of the foremost influences in Sou...

James Kantor

Lawyer, political prisoner, Rivonia Trialist and exile

Indian South Africans

Indian South Africans

9 February 2024

From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa  The feature on...

Peter Sexford Magubane

Peter Sexford Magubane

19 January 2024

South African photographer, politcal detainee and banned person

Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu

Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu

27 October 2023

Albertina Sisulu 'the mother of the nation', activist and nurse, who has struggled for her whole life human rights and d...

Mandela with children, 2007

Mandela with children, 2007

Nelson Mandela enjoying his 89th birthday celebrations at the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund in Johannesburg

Nelson Mandela inauguration, 1994

Nelson Mandela inauguration, 1994

Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address, delivered on May 10, 1994 at the Union Buildings in Pretoria

Africa Day protest in Cape Town

Africa Day protest in Cape Town

On Africa Day, 1962, a group of women hold signs in protest of oppression in South Africa while other African countries ...

Rustenburg

The Rustenburg Local Municipality is a Category B municipality situated within the Bojanala Platinum District in the Nor...

Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter

Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter

As the struggle for freedom reached a new intensity in the early fifties, the ANC saw the need for a clear statement on ...

Yusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations

Yusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations

In September 2009, SAHO in partnership with University of Johannesburg, Centre for Sociological Studies, organised the p...

Youth and the National Liberation Struggle

Youth and the National Liberation Struggle

17 February 2022

The participation of young people in the liberation struggle preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the ...

South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

South African Congress of Democrats (COD)

In 1952, Whites who identified themselves with the aspirations of those who participated in the Defiance Campaign formed...

Treason Trial 1956 - 1961

Treason Trial 1956 - 1961

For some time there had always been a question in peoples' minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of th...

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