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The Dutch and the Khoisan
… from their contracts with the VOC by taking up plots of land and by entering into a burgher militia. The first 12 … erupted. This occurred as a result of the…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… hierarchy, but the homestead now followed the land's lines of contour, an arrangement which made better use … male children began to marry, they could not be…
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
… were a time of great upheaval. There were many wars about land which caused thousands of people to flee to other parts … Bosiu by attracting people who had…
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… law passed by Parliament and it is the highest law in the land. All other laws must follow it. Other laws can be …
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… on 19 June 1913 the Union government passed the Natives’ Land Act that prohibited black people from owning or renting land outside special areas called…
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… indictment against capitalism [was] filling up from every land and every clime; and the roll of honour of proletarian …
ArticleMaritime history and heritage: shipwrecks
… that are better preserved than they would have been on land because of the low oxygen levels, and resulting low …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion … first, the Khoikhoi and later the…
ArticlePoverty and development
… women were forced into the rural areas to live off the land, without opportunities and choices allowing them to …
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… revenues from the colonies. These changes included taking land from African people and giving it to the growing number … with a growing number of settlers,…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… people. The most important law passed was the Natives’ Land Act of 1913. This law reserved 93% (revised to 87% in 1936) of the land in South Africa for…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… human history. A place where humans settled and used the land in a way that represents their culture can also be a … earth's history. This can be in fossils,…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… Black communities on the Transvaal Highveld occupying land in what was considered “White South Africa”. Included … Mogopa, who, on the eve of the…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… expense of black South Africans (in terms of franchise and land). It resulted in the consolidation of white rule, and … paved the way for a system of racial…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… fragmenting Xhosa society for the purposes of acquiring land and making labourers out of the people. As such, the … This political system is geared towards…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… society in which Black people were disposed of their land and confined into Native reserves and forced to work in …
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… became more powerful in terms of population size and land ownership. The San lost their dominance. 1652 … were forced out of their homes and had to…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… African interior saw many African farmers forced off their land and turned into farm labourers on white-owned … in their African colonies, providing them…
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… and murder. On 6 June, 1960, at Nguza Kop in Pondo-land, the police fired on a number of insurgents and eleven …
ArticleThe Nile river and its influence on settlement
… as a communication and trade route across a vast and harsh land. Also, its annual flooding renewed farmlands that would … life of agriculturalists. ‘We are…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… well as good water resources. They believed that all the land belonged to the community. They hunted using arrows … food Status position Indigenous the first…
Key terms and definitions Grade 12 topic 4
… punishment for defying a law or rule Territory an area of land under the authority of a ruler or state Underground …
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… to capital, electricity, better technology and irrigated land to grow high-value nutritious foods and climate change. … has more than half of the world’s…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… and office jobs, and they had access to own the productive land and other means of productions. The other apartheid … self-providing groups and their economy…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising that is also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt. It occurred during a period of economic depression…
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… and meat for VOC ships. When the company allocated land to company employees in 1652 and 1657 with various …
References and links: Transport through time
… Smart learning for All, (2014), ‘ Modes of Transport (Land, Water and Air) ’, (Video file), 27 December, [online], …
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… the indigenous population was dispossessed of their land and died in very large numbers. The interpretation of … they would all soon die out. Apart from loss…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… wild. The irresistible allure of the ancestral spirit-land compelled him to snatch a boat, brave the froth and … as an air-slicing pestle, he was not re…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… policy were made as early as 1913 (Ibid., 71). The Natives Land Act (1913) and the Native (Urban Areas) Act (1923) … of these “reserves,” Africans were no…