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A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
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Mar 21, 2011

A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s

Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape ...

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Mar 21, 2011

Conquest: 1600s-1800s

"They strongly insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centu...

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The Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
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Mar 21, 2011

The Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910

By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been achieved. Other than a small,...

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Mar 21, 2011

Control: 1910 - 1948

Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Na...

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Mar 21, 2011

From Segregation to Apartheid

The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly ...

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Treks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s
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Mar 21, 2011

Treks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s

Land is a very important commodity. It is used for farming, which provides food, providing living space and can also be ...

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Convict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
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Mar 21, 2011

Convict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony

Early Convict Stations in the Cape Colony

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The History of Education: 1658 to present
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Mar 21, 2011

The History of Education: 1658 to present

± 1000 BCE (Pre-colonial) Late Stone Age people (San/Tsam//Xam) teach their children how to hunt and gather food, skin...

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Mar 21, 2011

Amersfoort Legacy: A history through pictures

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Mar 21, 2011

Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497

Vasco da Gama carried out 2 expeditions between 1497 and 1502. This feature focuses on the first, as it was during this ...

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Pre-colonial history of Southern Africa
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Mar 21, 2011

Pre-colonial history of Southern Africa

South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old ho...

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Mar 21, 2011

References and further reading pertaining to SACTU

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The development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
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Mar 21, 2011

The development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004

1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the e...

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A History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
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Mar 21, 2011

A History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005

1824 The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824. 1877 ...

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A History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
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Mar 21, 2011

A History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003

1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kin...

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