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New Year message from ANC President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela to the people of South Africa
… New Year message from ANC President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela …
E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers …
Statement on the departure for New York to attend the special commemorative meeting of the UN General Assembly
… Statement on the departure for New York to attend the special commemorative meeting of the …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution
… Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… Site, known as the ‘Cradle of Humankind’. Recently, a new find from the Cradle has made world headlines. Lee Berger … remains of a juvenile male and adult…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… relatives of mankind inhabited the area at the time. The age of the fossils are estimated to be 2.6 to 2.8 million … became pastoralists (Khoikhoi). They…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… the Greater Johannesburg region until the Late Iron Age. Then, beginning in the 15th century, BaFokeng dominated … About 1800 years ago, Bantu-speaking…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… migration into urban areas precipitated the formation of new political and cultural associations. In Cape Town, the … reference books (passes) for all…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… and the ways we can find out about them. The term ‘Iron Age’ is a convenient label for this period, as people made … work parties during the ploughing season…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… for refusing to disclose his sources Apr 5- Torch and New Age banned. (Merrett:44-45) Apr- Editor of Africa South, … country Apr 11- Myrna Blumberg, a…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… grows and broadens as more archaeologists find answeres to new questions. Evidence of human settlement in Southern … off, were used for cutting. Evidence of…
ArticlePoverty and development
… (especially the mother). Almost 40% of children under the age of 7 years live only with their mother, while many live … only men can own property. Polygamy…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… sent to live in the rural village of Elsburg. 1926 At the age of seven Abrahams mother retrieves him from Elsburg and … the school. 1938 Abrahams moves to…
ArticleThe San
… and lived. Hundreds of thousands of generations of Stone Age hunter-gatherers populated the South African landscape … lifestyle that saw so many generations…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… one of the 39 of Sub-Saharan African writers under the age of 40 by Hay Festival Africa. As a journalist she has … Republica, Open Society, Sunday Times,…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… reached its most restrictive form, music had taken on a new role for the persecuted South Africans. Freedom songs … township of South Africa, on August 19,…
Prehistory of the Nelspruit area
… Nelspruit is the capital of a region with important Iron Age remains. Stonewalled settlements scattered along the … some 1000 years earlier. Construction…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… of South Africans all over the world. Rising sun - the new dawn emerging from Africa. Mapungubwe hill - forms the … sustaining properties of fire, employed…
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… weakened hunter-gatherer social cohesion 215 CE Iron Age farmerssettled in the summer rainfall regions. They … 2000 …
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… boxer Ezekiel ‘King Kong’ Dhlamini. It helped create a new set of opportunities for Black South Africans in the arts and has taken South African theatre to…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… Africa. The first people in Mapungubwe were early Iron Age settlers. They lived there from about 1000 AD to 1300 AD, … of South Africans all over the world…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… of Texas. Teaches literature at the University of New York until 1983. 1974 Starts writing fiction, and … and South African English literature 1990 Publishes…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… and India with a South African United Front delegation. In New Delhi, he holds discussions with Nehru. Nehru assures … March, Dadoo takes over the Chair of…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… to say which theory is correct because we find out new things about our own development and ancestors every day … studied ancient sites and tried to…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… Fanon, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyere and Kwame Nkrumah, a new framework of student thinking emerged. In South Africa, … became known in South Africa as the…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) at the age of 14. 1958 At the age 16 Thabo Mbeki has a baby boy out … from Thabo. January 4, Thabo Mbeki's…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… that - are inappropriate for a person of that child's age; or place at risk the child's well-being, education, … measures to extend testing and counselling…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
… making money. Settler: A person who goes to live in a new country or region. Slavery: Slavery refers to the state …
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… rumoured copper potential. 1687 : Van der Stel declares new land available for Freeburgher settlement in the Upper … 24 June 1712 : Van der Stel falls ill…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… scholars believe Dumile was decidedly ambiguous as to his age and birth year in order to protect himself against … Nations Plaza, City without Walls Gallery…