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1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
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Jan 25, 2016

1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline

1859 After protracted negotiations between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, ...

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The West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
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Jan 14, 2016

The West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young

The first Kroomen to be employed by the British Navy in Simon’s Town arrived on the HMS Melville in 1838. [i] Thei...

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First Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
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Jan 13, 2016

First Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas

At first I thought that a reading and a republishing of my Traditions of Poetry in Natal2 which attempted to situate Maf...

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Learning about history through people: oral history
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Jan 11, 2016

Learning about history through people: oral history

People as historical sources People can be great sources of information. By speaking to people we can learn about the p...

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Jan 11, 2016

Learning about history through objects

Investigating the Toy box:  objects Sometimes we do not have written records or pictures to help us find out inform...

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Jan 11, 2016

Learning about history through writing

We are going to investigate an event using written SOURCES. Can you try to guess which event we are going to look at? He...

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Jan 11, 2016

Learning about local history through pictures

In this lesson we will investigate the history of different local areas and local events using these different sources.L...

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Jan 11, 2016

January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 104th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma

8 January 2016, Rustenburg, North West Comrades, compatriots, friends and invited guests, The African National Con...

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Jan 08, 2016

Eulogy for Monty Naicker by Vortex

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Jan 08, 2016

Elegy for Rick Turner by Vortex

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Women in African Literature: Writing and Representation
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Jan 08, 2016

Women in African Literature: Writing and Representation

Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a ...

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Jan 07, 2016

A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss

Indres Naidoo Born: 26 August 1936 Died: 3 January 2016 Transvaal Indian Congress, Umkhonto we Size, African National...

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Jan 04, 2016

The Voice and Gesture in South Africa’s Revolution : A Study of Worker Gatherings and Performance-Genres in Natal by Ari Sitas, 6 - 10 February 1990, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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Dec 17, 2015

Yesterday’s Poems and the Poets of Yesterday’s South Africa, and towards New Poems and Poets for the Unfinished and Continuing Struggle for a new South Africa by Saleem Badat

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Driekopseiland: Rock engravings
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Dec 11, 2015

Driekopseiland: Rock engravings

A site of knowledge: Driekopseiland South Africa has a large number of historical rock-engraving sites, where South Afr...

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