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… The first white inhabitants Between 1820 and 1826, Afrikaner … trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River and settled near a spring (fountain) in the …

… Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers … The African Mine workers strike of 1946 …

… The Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930 Indians began settling in Natal from 1860 when the first indentured workers arrived.1 They were followed from the mid-1870s by entrepreneurs from Gujarat on the west coast … The Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930 …

… This article was written by Claire Wilt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … all-girls missionary school, played a pivotal role in the education of Black South African women. Just outside of … a home and place of refuge for its students for 143 years. The school’s powerful core values shape the minds and conduct …

… ALBERTI, Ludwig. 1968. Account of the Tribal Life and Customs of the Xhosa in 1807. Translated by Dr William Fehr. Cape Town: … James Edward. 1838. An Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa ... etc. London: Henry Colburn. …

… a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era outside the country, by contributing to the advancement of Black filmmaking, and after apartheid he …

… Written by: FRANCO FRESCURA The exploitation of convict labour at the Cape during the Colonial era is closely connected with the work of John … Convict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony …

… "Without doubt it is a far more costly thing to kill the (indigenous population) than to Christianise them." … 1888) European missionaries to southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played a strangely ambiguous role in the history and affairs of the region. On the one hand they …

… For each individual photographer, there was the struggle to overcome the blind spots resulting from an internalised apartheid … had been invisible; to find ways of articulating through the medium of photography, a reality obscured by government … The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – …

… The first form of transport on land was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals Carts, wagons and coaches The bicycle The steam engine and the train The motor car Common forms of …

… Before presenting the history and impact of resistance photography we must consider the historical moment in which resistance photography in South Africa came into existence. The basis for what is commonly agreed to be a literary crisis … Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976 …

… The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, … The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression …

… 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da Gama sailed up the eastern seaboard of southern Africa, and moored overnight in the lee of a headland, which may have been the Bluff. …

…   A Distant clap of thunder: Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike A Salute by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers Published by the South African Communist Party, 1986 Introduction Over … Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike …

… conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted the charge that South African movement was engineered and controlled from India and the British Indians continually shifted their ground …

… Women at the start of the 20th century It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the …

… Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the apartheid era Homeland politics The Segregated City, … Polokwane the Segregated city …

… Explore some of the key moments and events that have helped shape the course of South African Communist Party. Follow the links for more detail. 1870 William H. Andrews (Bill), a … NASA, JUS, 919, 1/18/26, vol.13 – vol.15. Report from the Criminal Investigation Department at Potchefstroom to the …

… 1884 Otto von Bismarck chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia … under Emperor Menelik II, defeats invading Italian army in the Battle of Adwa. Lumière brothers' demonstration of …

… 1884 Otto von Bismarck chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia … under Emperor Menelik II, defeats invading Italian army in the Battle of Adwa. Lumière brothers' demonstration of …