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EventThe first large group of French Huguenots arrive at the Cape
… was established in 1550. From the mid 1500s until the mid 1600s, Huguenots were persecuted in France for their …
BiographySusanna Helena Kok
Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in Brandfort, Free State. Her father Frederik Johannes Kok was a school principal in Brandfort, where she matriculated in…
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
… almost exclusively Dutch silver Ducatoons from the 1600s. The number of coins found in the 1970s was around …
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyStephen Zelwane Nkadimeng
Stephen Zelwane Nkadimeng was one of the founders and key leaders of Fetakgomo (an organisation of migrant workers and peasantsof Sekhukhuneland). On the last…
BiographyDenis Mayer
Denis Mayer was born in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
Jan van Riebeeck was sent to the Cape to establish a station at which ships of the United Dutch Chartered East Indian Company could obtain fresh vegetables and…
EventSheikh Yusuf, regarded as the founder of the Islamic faith in the Cape, dies at Zandvliet (Macassar)
… In the late 1600s many Muslim men of wealth and influence were banished …
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
PlaceMolenvliet House, Molenvliet Street, Mowbray
… which was once part of the historic Coornhoop farm in the 1600s, is to make way for a 12-unit residential development. …
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… However, Dutch traders took over the role. From the 1600s the Dutch dominated the West african and Atlantic Slave …
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
PlaceAngola
… why the Kingdom of Kongo came apart so rapidly in the mid-1600s. The pressures of the slave trade and its constant … [xci] . The Lunda States In the late…
Afrikaner
… from the Dutch language spoken by early settlers in the 1600s. However, modern Afrikaans is in fact an accumulation …
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
In 1917 ordinary workers and rank and file soldiers overthrew the Tsarist autocracy that had been in power in Russia since the late 1400s. This became known as…
BiographyKing Faku ka Ngqungqushe
King Faku ka Ngqungqushe was born around 1780 at the Qawukeni Great Palace near a small town called Lusikisiki in the Mpondoland region, which is in the north…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… crossed the Limpopo River into South Africa during the 1600s. This implies that they came into the country at about … time as the white settlers. According…
PlaceRwanda
… last group were identified as the Tutsi people after the 1600s [xxi] . These migrations arose in slow and steady waves … of the Palace of the Mwami of Rwanda…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
Early years The history of the South African Defence Force (SADF) can be traced to the 1660s. When Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape in 1652, he had with…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
Introduction Pretoria is located in the north east of South Africa, to the north of Gauteng, and 60 Kilometres away from the north east of Johannesburg [i] …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
Great Zimbabwe When Mapungubwe was abandoned, it was to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and economic power in the area shifted to…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, with a nation-wide State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the…
PlaceWestern Cape Province
In 1993, the Cape Province was divided into three smaller provinces. One of them is the Western Cape. The Western Cape was the first place in the country where…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… on the coast. [4] Many of the towns in Sierra Leone in the 1600s were fortified using a technique of living hedges and …
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
EventA Dutch ship, the Rosenberg, carrying Huguenots, leaves for the Cape from the Netherlands
The French Huguenots were refugees in the Netherlands fleeing religious persecution brought about by the ascendancy of Catholicism in France. The Edict of…
The Atlantic slave trade
Causes and results of slavery A main cause of the trade was the colonies that European countries were starting to develop. In America, for instance, which was…
PlaceChad
Chad is the fifth largest country in Africa[i]. Chad is estimated to be one of the areas for where the human species originated[ii]. The area which is now…
Gallery
This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from 1900…