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ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… 1880-1882 Gydouw Pass Tulbagh 1866-1867 Howison's Poort Albany 1856-1859 Katberg Stockenstrom 1862-1878 Lichtenburg …
PlaceNtabankulu Municipality
… and skirmishes between the Khoisan , Xhosa , and European settlers . Its history is intertwined with the broader …
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… Society (EANHS)]. The group consisted mainly of colonial settlers and naturalists who needed a place to keep and … Society (EANHS)]. The group consisted…
PlaceoThongathi, previously Tongaat
… developed around 1848–1850 when land was granted to settlers for sugar cultivation. Derived from the Zulu word …
PlaceMangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State
… " Place of Cheetahs " . Legend has it that when the first settlers arrived, they were stunned by the vast plains, that … "place of Cheetahs" . Legend has it…
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
… Trek, there were other equally compelling reasons for the settlers to leave the Cape Colony. Further reading list: A …
ArticleXhosa
… Nine Frontier Wars followed between the Xhosa and European settlers, and these wars dominated 19th century South African …
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… at the time showed the two populations, both slaves and settlers to be roughly equal to about 6000 each. 1767 …
PlaceSterkfontein Caves, Krugersdorp (within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site)
… This led to a period of boom for the Witwatersrand: Settlers moved in, construction increased and Farms were …
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… facilitate the expansion Northwards of the original Dutch settlers’ descendants- the Boer Voortrekkers, from the 1830's … Ph.D. University of Indiana.|Umar,R…
PlaceNoordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula
… doubt that it goes back to the time of the earliest white settlers some time after Jan van Riebeck arrived in the Cape … was sold to Jacobus Hurter for less…
PlacePrince Albert
… including influences from the early Khoisan People , Dutch Settlers , and British Colonialists . This diverse History is … bread on open fires long before…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
… the Natal Indian Congress and the Colonial-born and Indian Settlers Association. Before Sir Raza Ali left the country he … the Natal Indian Congress and the…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… 5.9% Toponyms 0.3% Unknown 9.25% Facetious Names The settlers’ facetious spirit found its fullest expression in … names such as Solomon and Moses were never…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… farmers moved South around the same time as the early settlers from Europe moved North and East. Recent research … part of the country centuries before the…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… R250,000 was crippling. Under strain, Gandar retired. On Settlers Day, September 4 1967, Vorster gave a speech to a …
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… and white occupation. Behind the Fish River, the 1820 Settlers were established in the Zuurveld in an attempt to … in British Kaffraria and their lands given…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… to the way in which she was seen and treated by the settlers. Portrait of Dutch ships in Table Bay South Africa … to take a turn for the worse. By March 1657…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… Bay. 1717 The VOC decides that future grants of land to settlers at the Cape should no longer be done on a freehold … that its non-indigenous population…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Nine Frontier Wars followed between the Xhosa and European settlers, and these wars dominated 19th century South African …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… with effect from 1 July. 13 March, The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) is formed at a meeting in …
PlaceKwaNojoli, formerly Somerset East
… owes much of its early years to the British military and settlers as well as the Afrikaners who were farming the area …
PlaceZorgvliet Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
… to make temporary homes, and much encouragement. The settlers, thrown back on their own ingenuity, courage and …
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… . In the late 15th Century the Portuguese sent out settlers to the island's to grow sugar. This included many …
PlaceiSimangaliso Wetland Park, former Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park
… Gama and his crew are said to have been the first European settlers on the coastline when they landed here in December …
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… people through the domination of their land by illegal settlers who steal and occupy the high ground is real and …
PlaceUmlazi
… of Umlazi (or Mlazi) dates back to 1845 when British settlers forcibly occupied what was then Natal (now KwaZulu …
PlaceHeilbron, Free State
… River, and which gave rise to the settlement. Boer Settlers and local tribes fought bitterly over the area in … commemorates a particularly bloody battle…
PlaceGreat Fish River, Eastern Cape
… Fish valley formed a battle zone between mostly British Settlers moving East from the Cape and Tribal Settlements to …
PlaceThembuland
… to prevent the dispossession of the Thembu by aggressive settlers, however in the ensuing political upheavals, the law … a blind eye to white incursions…