20th Century South Africa

 

In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1924-1946 by ESSOP PAHAD D. Phil Thesis, Universi...

The South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) was formed in 1953 at a Coloured People's Convention in Cape To...

The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominant...

1994 27 April,South Africa's interim constitution which was adopted in November 1993 came into effect on 27th April 1...

 

Socialism is a political and economic ideology aiming to create a society where all members distribute resources and wea...

1936 Hermanus Loots is born in the Kat River area of the Eastern Cape (19 July).[i] 1954 Matriculated from John...

Introduction The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the self-governing British coloni...

European missionaries to southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played a strangely ambiguous role...

Indian South Africans timeline 1900-1909 1900 The East London Mayor's Minute for 1899-1900 states that 1,000 refug...

Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colo...

Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of Sou...

May Day celebrated on 1 May annually, is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history, being a day of ...

Mandela and MK The late 1950s saw the first hints of an armed struggle occurring in certain parts of South Africa. Va...

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

 

In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, an...

Claire Albin Claire Albin is a sophomore at Southern Methodist University originally from Shreveport, Louisiana....

Black Consciousness Movement South African Students Movement The South African Student Organisation (SASO) The Black ...

Awards 1960s  1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 ...

When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and employers were shocked, a...

‘Strijdom, you have tampered with the women, You have struck a rock.'  So runs the song composed to mark this ...

This article was written by Ashley Schumacher and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership ...

It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as eq...

The International Socialist League (ISL) was formed in September 1915. It was created by a progressive faction of the So...

The Sweet Workers’ Union (SWU) originated as an offshoot of the short-lived Women Workers’ Union, founded by Fanny Klene...

The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africa...

The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Wal...

Most people credit the abolition of apartheid to many organisations and leaders, such as the African National Congress a...

 

 

This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership...

The UDF was an umbrella organization that was founded to unify the hundreds of Anti-Apartheid movement occurring in the ...

Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography Collective A...

The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Th...