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| A-0124778 | article | Pass Laws in South Africa | 19 Mar 2018 | – |
| P-0124599 | place | Iziko Museum's, Cape Town | 16 Jan 2018 | ✓ |
| A-0124488 | article | How Unique was Slavery at the Cape? | 28 Nov 2017 | – |
| A-0124487 | article | Louis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808 | 28 Nov 2017 | – |
| A-0124437 | article | The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign | 15 Nov 2017 | – |
| A-0124358 | article | The Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods | 26 Oct 2017 | ✓ |
| B-0124151 | biography | Navanethem (Navi) Pillay | 1941 | ✓ |
| B-0123560 | biography | Juda Ngwenya | 2016 | – |
| A-0123439 | article | Settler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism | 2 Jun 2017 | – |
| A-0123409 | article | The Afrikaner Bond | 26 May 2017 | – |
| A-0123407 | article | The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut | 26 May 2017 | – |
| B-0123406 | biography | Nicholaas Frederic de Waal | – | ✓ |
| B-0123405 | biography | Joseph Chamberlain | 1836-1914 | – |
| A-0123395 | article | The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond | 25 May 2017 | – |
| A-0123393 | article | A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group | 25 May 2017 | – |
ArticlePass Laws in South Africa
The Pass Laws was a system used to control the movement of Black, Indian and Coloured people in South Africa. The pass said which areas a…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
Iziko is an isiXhosa word meaning “hearth.” A hearth is the traditional centre of the home where families would get together to share their…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
The first slaves arrived at the Cape in 1658, despite Jan van Riebeeck's several prior attempts at requesting slaves for the settlement…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
On 28 October 1917 more than 400 market gardeners from the Springfield Flats (Tintown) area in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal) drowned…
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ…
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism like Capitalism and African Nationalism profoundly shaped the history of the country, and continues to…
The Afrikaner Bond
The Origins of the Afrikaner Bond The Afrikaner Bond, an Afrikaner political organisation that was effectively the first political party…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut (AHI – in English the Afrikaans Commercial Institute) was formed during WWII to create Afrikaner businesses…
BiographyNicholaas Frederic de Waal
Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied law. He travelled to…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman, a colonial administrator and politician who went from being a radical, almost socialist liberal…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
In the 1870s a series of farming associations emerged in the Cape, both in the west and in the east. While both English and Afrikaner…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
Volkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, and one of the three biggest Afrikaner monopolies. It was…