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Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… 1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… the Batavian Republic from British invasion in the early 1800s and the Battle of Muizenberg in 1795. They also played …
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
… lived in the east of Pretoria in the late 1700s or early 1800s. [vi] A second theory argues that the name stems from …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… mainly executed through forced prison labour. By the late 1800s, the idea of imprisonment shifted with the aim to …
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… 27 February 1917. [1] Russia before the Revolution By the 1800s a number of countries in Western Europe had already …
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… the Waterfront and Green Point. In the 1700 and 1800s, the authorities used this extensive area as a burial …
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… Molokwane, Kaditshwene and Dithakong, which in the early 1800s housed 10 000 people or more. Early travelers to South …
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As…
The Atlantic slave trade
… was an economic, not a humanitarian, act. By the early 1800s the new captains of industry in England favoured …
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… the part of the Boer republics in particular. By the mid-1800s, the British had essentially given up control of the …
Afrikaner
… came from British English-speaking ministers in the early 1800s, and the Swiss reformer John Calvin (1509–1564) who was … in the work Bayaan-ud-djyn written…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
1500-1800 This period is marked by the advent and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central and East Africa. On the Southern African…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
The Mfecane (a Zulu word which translates to “the crushing”) or Difiqane (a Sotho word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… in Kaditshwene made metal goods. In the early parts of the 1800s, there was much conflict among the peoples of southern …
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
The Boer Republics, and the Basotho kingdom (a case study) Moshoeshoe moves to Thaba Bosiu The 1820s and 1830s were a time of great upheaval. There were many…
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
This section looks at the rise of the Basotho kingdom in the 19th Century. The people involved in this were the Basotho, the Boers and the British. Of these,…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… the national railway line reached Bloemfontein in the late 1800s, it brought with it unwanted elements of society …
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
The Empty or Vacant Land Theory is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to land. Today…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
1870s-1880s Discovery of a reliable water source. "To the present generation Currie's Fountain is but a name which marks the recreation grounds below Botanic…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… to East and Central Africa. It came to an end in mid-1800s and for a short while, had some links with the Great …
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… significance for the working class dates back to the 1800s. On 7 October 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades …
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
Nelspruit lies in the Lowveld, in the valley of the Crocodile River just below the great eastern escarpment of the Transvaal. Long before it acquired a…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
Britain takes control of the Cape Once revolutionary armies of France invaded Holland in 1795, the British feared that the French would take control of the…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… also pushed for residential segregation by the end of the 1800s. For instance, after the outbreak of small pox in 1882 …
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
The reign of Mzilikazi Under the leadership of Mzilikazi, the people who came to be called the Ndebele in Zimbabwe (originally of the Khumalo clan) broke away…
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
Where is Great Zimbabwe? The Great Zimbabwe ruins date from the Iron Age and lie between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers in the Limpopo Province east of the…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… but small uprisings of slaves took place in the early 1800s, when the Cape was under British rule. Slavery was …
ArticleZulu
… history was the arrival of Europeans in Natal. By the late 1800s, British troops had invaded Zulu territory and divided …