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May 29, 2011

Colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (under construction)

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May 29, 2011

Zulu and the British (under construction)

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May 28, 2011

Systems of democracy: the American Revolution (under construction)

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May 28, 2011

Contact, conflict and dispossession: frontiers in America in the nineteenth century (under construction)

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May 28, 2011

Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century

The situation in the Eastern Cape in the early late 18th and early 19th century (approximately1780 - 1850) was as follow...

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Africa and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
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May 28, 2011

Africa and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries

San hunter-gatherers The word ‘San’ means ‘people different from ourselves’. The San, who were hunter-gatherers, were t...

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European trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
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May 28, 2011

European trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries

Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into ...

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May 28, 2011

West Africa and trans-Saharan trade: salt, gold, slaves and ancient trade routes, centres of learning, historical reporting - ninth to sixteenth centuries (under construction)

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May 28, 2011

Indian Ocean and East Africa: Arab trade, Swahili coastal communities, and links with Great Zimbabwe - ninth to sixteenth centuries (under construction)

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May 28, 2011

The Earth Charter (under construction)

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May 28, 2011

The Children’s Charter

Children’s rights and responsibilities In any society, it is very important that children are protected and cared for...

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National symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
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May 28, 2011

National symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem

National Symbols since 1994In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African....

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May 28, 2011

What is democracy? (under construction)

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Indigenous medicine and traditional healing
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May 28, 2011

Indigenous medicine and traditional healing

Isangomas and inyangas are the two main types of indigenous or traditional healers in South Africa. Isangomas Isang...

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May 28, 2011

Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction)

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