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Grade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
Article
May 27, 2011

Grade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution

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

Grade 6 - Term 4: Medicine through time
Article
May 27, 2011

Grade 6 - Term 4: Medicine through time

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

Grade 6 - Term 1: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
Article
May 27, 2011

Grade 6 - Term 1: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe

This topic describes the history of the southern African kingdoms of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe with a spe...

Grade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
Article
May 27, 2011

Grade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa

Who are the hunter gatherers of Southern Africa? You may be under the impression that there are no more hunter gatherer...

Grade 4 - Term 1: Local History
Article
May 26, 2011

Grade 4 - Term 1: Local History

People learn and are influenced by the places and the people around them. In a country like South Africa, which has a ri...

Grade 4 - Term 2: Learning from leaders
Article
May 25, 2011

Grade 4 - Term 2: Learning from leaders

This topic looks at what makes a good or great leader, and how we can learn from them. The CAPS curriculum emphasizes&nb...

Grade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time
Article
Mar 22, 2011

Grade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time

This topic examines transport, in all its forms, namely; land, water and air. It looks at the earliest to the most moder...

Grade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
Article
Sep 21, 2017

Grade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town

How to find out about the present or the history of a local area? When investigating our past, we need to look at vari...

Grade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
Article
Jan 19, 2012

Grade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa

 

Grade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
Article
Mar 04, 2015

Grade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade

CONTENT West Africa before the European slave trade A map depicting the three most well-known West African Kingdoms. ...

Article
Nov 14, 2017

Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline

1902 A Coloured people’s political organisation, African People’s Organisation (APO), previously known as the African P...

Grade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
Article
May 29, 2011

Grade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948

For this complex period to be studied, the Sharpeville massacre, Soweto uprising and the release of Nelson Mandela and u...

Grade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
Article
Nov 16, 2017

Grade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980

What was the nature of the civil society resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ...

Grade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
Article
Jun 01, 2011

Grade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s

It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a mu...

Grade 12 - The Cold War
Article
Jan 20, 2015

Grade 12 - The Cold War