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Colonial history of Nelspruit
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Mar 29, 2011

Colonial history of Nelspruit

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Mar 29, 2011

Prehistory of the Nelspruit area

Prehistory of the Nelspruit area Prehistory of Southern Africa Lying just below the escarpment, Nelspruit is the...

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Mar 29, 2011

Nelspruit

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

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Mar 29, 2011

Role players in Rustenburg History

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Mar 29, 2011

Community histories of Rustenburg

Afrikaans Community (1838-1899) The First White Inhabitants It is documented that the first pioneers from the East...

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Mar 29, 2011

The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg

Resistance to apartheid Umzabalazo - The Freedom Struggle in South Africa Conditions in Rustenburg point to deprivatio...

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Mar 29, 2011

Rustenburg the Segregated city

Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, an...

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Mar 29, 2011

Colonial history of Rustenburg

Origins of colonial settlement It is thought that Andries Hendrik Potgieter was one of the first Voortrekkers to sett...

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Mar 29, 2011

Prehistory of the Rustenburg area

Prehistory of the Region Pre-history of Southern Africa Africans who worked with copper and iron inhabited the area be...

Place
Mar 29, 2011

Rustenburg

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

Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
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Mar 28, 2011

Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today

Openining address by Prof. Phillip Bonner: "Fragmentation and Cohesion In The Anc, The First 70 Years". Delegates ...

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Mar 28, 2011

Polokwane

Polokwane is the capital city of Limpopo

Article
Mar 24, 2011

Afrikaner

From European to "Africaander” The modern Afrikaner is descended mainly from Western Europeans who settled on the sou...

Ndebele
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Mar 24, 2011

Ndebele

The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni re...

The San
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Mar 24, 2011

The San

The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San...

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