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ArticleXhosa
… His descendants expanded the kingdom by settling in new territory and bringing people living there under the control … Town. As the years passed, they sought…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… 1994 South Africa transitions to democracy and transfers territory (Walvis Bay enclave and 12 islands of the Namibian …
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… Bantustans made-up only 13% of South Africa in terms of territory , they were Venda, Bophuthatswana, Transkei and …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… duty of the SADF was to defend and protect South African territory, there were times when this merged with that of the …
ArticleThe Johanna
… in turn gave the company the power to colonise whichever territory it desired and enslaved the indigenous people to …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… His descendants expanded the kingdom by settling in new territory in the Eastern Cape region and bringing people … Town. As the years passed, they sought to…
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… Christians and extending the frontiers of Islam. As their territory grew, religious zeal became less important. What …
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… occupation in 1806. After this British seizure of the territory, many of the Dutch settlers (the boers) trekked … eighteenth century the Cape settlers were…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… what is today Turkey. When the Turks conquered this territory, it meant that the Europeans could not travel … from modern northern Ecuador to central Chile…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… Governor Leutwein, who had been away from the colonial territory to fight Bondelswarts in the south, finally … all Nama lands, apart from Berseba and the…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… people consistently resisted the dispossession of their territory. During the 17th, 18th and most of the 19th century …
EPILOGUE
… sovereign authority is exercised over the whole of its territory; (b) that the Constitution will be the supreme law …
ArticleThe Basotho
… current borders of Lesotho were established. Most of their territory was lost, specifically fertile farming area west of …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… law in which one state forcibly acquires another states territory. [14] Kristallnacht - An event where violent, …
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… and UNITA forces continued to try to take over as much territory as they could in order to secure political … secured the Caleque and Ruacana dams, 30km…
ArticleTswana
… and British officials had seized almost all Tswana territory, dividing it among the Cape Colony, Afrikaner … South Africa and Botswana. Efforts to…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New Imperialism period, between the … Timeline: 1885 King Leopold II formally…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… inhabited these regions desperately fought to defend their territory. In the end however, the superior weapons and … By the 1860s, European occupation of…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… of the Vaal River, on the western edges of Fokeng-Kwena territory. From 1750 onwards, intensifying trade and more … ties to San peoples who lived just west…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… Mozambique. The fact that it chrashed over South African territory raised some questions about the possibilities of … Kamuzu Banda, of setting up a base for…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… the border by Ronel Segal into the then British controlled territory of Bechunaland. He was followed by Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… monopoly: it gave the VOC the power to colonise whichever territory it desired and enslaving the indigenous people …
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… ready labour pool. The Khoikhoi attempted to regain their territory by again attacking the Dutch in 1659 and 1673, but …
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
The year 1896 signifies an important moment in African history. In that year, on 1 March 1896, a historic battle between invading Italian forces and a strong…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… and economic needs. The Xhosa occupied the region of territory that is today mostly understood as the Eastern Cape … to his own enclosure, every Chief had…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… Town , and eventually declared their ownership of the Cape territory in 1672. As a result of colonisation, the Dutch … Cape from the Dutch in 1806, and…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… This could be anything from 15 to 40 people. The band's territory is called the n!ore, which is the place that the …
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… situated just outside Phokeng, falling in South African territory, became a focal point of struggle activity ( see … of Phokeng. While the mission fell into…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… all over the land beyond the original Dutch-controlled territory. Most of the land into which they moved is in the …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… policy of segregation with the Xhosas excluded from the territory of the Colony and in 1811-1812 Governor Cradock was … the Ndlambe and other Xhosa beyond…