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ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… rumoured copper potential. 1687 : Van der Stel declares new land available for Freeburgher settlement in the Upper …
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… talk in the mid-1930s of disbanding the ANC and starting a new organisation that did not have the same problems with …
Bonani Africa 2010 Awards
… images they help us see and experience the world in new ways. Our aim, in the coming year, is to start planning …
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… protected themselves at all costs. The V.O.C. established new districts such as Swellendam and Graaff- Reinet in order … Frontier War, Piet Retief and three…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… diseases and midwifery. Xuma studies complex surgery at New St. Johns Hospital. 1927 April: In order to sit for his … at the annual conference of the…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… true that MK gave the ANC political advantage entering the new anti-apartheid South Africa, this view discredits all the … Available at: http://www.sahistory…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… action. Presumably, it was taken for granted that the new military unit would be under the control of certain … Mandela and Slovo worked to recruit members…
PlaceDie Nederlandse Reherformrde Kerk (Paul Kruger Church) Pretoria
… 1894 did the church board decide to gather money for a new church building. Klaas van Rijsse was hired as architect … improvement of natural lighting with…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… racist education, but also in the introduction of the new system. As we join efforts to build a new educational system in a new society, COSAS has not been…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… work parties during the ploughing season and lending new member’s calves for a year or two as agriculture (crops … their crops could grow, but sometimes they…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… The cultures of many groups blended together to form a new language and culture, called ‘Swahili’ by the Arabs. It … political titles like ‘Sultan’. They…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… these ghetto-like areas began to self-identify with their new environments in often unwholesome ways. [ix] For many it … ‘reclassified’ as ‘Coloured’. The…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… evidence. Our eyes were constantly turning to the public gallery, rapidly filling up with the friends and families who … had also been in pursuance of the…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… expansionism. 1680 Commander Simon van der Stel starts a new settlement along the Eerste River on land belonging to … 3 April, Prime Minister B.J. Vorster…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wynberg
… from the Mother Church and the first service of the new congregation took place on 20 September 1829, on the farm … for land to be granted for the…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… and leader of the National Party in the Cape Province as new Prime Minister and Party leader. His elevation to the new position was boosted by the qualities…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bloemfontein
… Resident Administrator, laid the foundation stone for a new church and, at the same time, presented a bell to the … small for Bloemfontein's needs and the…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… period of transition to civilian rule, and for the new government structure to consist of a sovereign council, a … {Accessed on 21 August 2019] [iii]…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… Africa to record the war on film. The use of film, as a new medium for propaganda, was discovered and exploited … Films Trust, a film importing and…
ArchiveLetter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011
… reasserts our humanity. In this march towards humanity, a new culture of human rights and a respect for the dignity of … moments of the exodus from the past…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… 1907 and reached its climax in 1913 with the epic march of 5,000 workers indentured on the coal mines of Natal. That … and a pair of socks and sandals ." (…
EventNOCSA announces SA participation in Olympic games
… but instead the Olympic hymn, Beethoven's Ode to Joy. A new flag under which the team would compete was also unveiled. It was agreed that both hymn and new…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… (associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and photo…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… whites were the superior race and Africans were inferior. [5] In the mid-1880s, a German Professor, Friedrich Tiedemann … late 19th century to celebrate…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… what we imagine "heritage" to be in the oft-referred to "new South Africa". There is a story to the decision to have … also in the public holidays to be…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… poetry had traditionally attracted notwithstanding the new and vital role that poetry was playing in the political … of Roy Blumenthal, Anna Varney joined…
The Arrival of the Khoisan
… arrived, bringing with them a different way of life and new ideas about the world. For the San hunter-gatherers many … depended on the state of the pasture…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… Africa. . In 2010, Jacob Zuma’s government launched the New Economic Growth Path (NGP) which aimed at creating … COSATU’s report response to the NGP titled …
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… in their hundreds. Threatened by the 'liberalism' of the new colonial administration, insecure about conflict on the … securely underneath. So the axles were…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… Kruger was appointed as a member of a commission to draft new laws in November, and a general election in March 1856 … Party in England brought hope among…