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Control: 1910 - 1948
… less independent in relation to their participation in the colonial cash economy. The result was that thousands of … people and free-slaves proletarianised…
A new class struggle
… a sophisticated and active menace to their position in Colonial society, competing for space, place, trade and … "solutions" to their common problems and…
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… in the concentration camps, writes to Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary. He requests that such inquiries should be … Sir Montagu Ommaney, the permanent…
America, Spanish conquest
… populations were enslaved, abused and killed. In 1542, colonial laws were introduced to protect the Amerindians. In … and for many, traumatic, periods in…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… of community among our practising artists across former colonial and provincial divisions, and that it demanded the …
ArticleThe Mendi Decoration of Bravery
… traditionally conferred to adorn brave warriors during colonial wars. 3. The green emerald - the core from which the …
ArticleThe Khoisan
… cattle and land raids came to a head in 1868, when the colonial government created a special magisterial district. … the Korana 'raid' leaders and handed…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… Natal is prohibited with effect from 1 July. 13 March, The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) is … October, Albert Christopher, Ruben…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… depictions of Shaka by British traders were not the only colonial written records, but there were also colonial administrators in Nata l who portrayed Shaka…
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
… comprises historical artworks dating from South Africa’s colonial past. How can we today view a collection that offers glimpses of our past through a…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Introduction
… Wayne Dooling, focuses on the development in the Cape of a colonial slave society, one of the models identified in … and European, the chapter turns to the…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… beliefs. The first Indians arrived during the Dutch colonial era, as slaves, in 1684. A conservative calculation … that the indentured Indians were to work…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… the eastern seaboard offered many advantages to the Cape's colonial government. It was an ideal landing place for …
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… South Africa's history is closely tied to European colonial and economic expansion since the 1400s. This growth …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… the continent, he calls for a reassessment of the imposed colonial story of South African history: Black living has …
EventGerman Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swakopmund, South West Africa
… was initially successful to such an extent that the colonial Germans urgently requested reinforcements in order … Africa, where he served as commander of the…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… and did not try to control land in the interior. As the colonial trade became more competitive, trading stations grew … of settlement. Colonies of settlement…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… of the Zulu kingdom 1879 -1896 In the 1870s settler and colonial determination to bring Blacks under firm political … These societies attempted to resist the…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… a mass meeting is organised mainly by leaders of the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA). July … representatives of the Natal Indian…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… P.S Aiyar a Tamil journalist began a Tamil-English weekly Colonial Indian News. Aiyar's ventures reflected the … as this too lasted for just a few years…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… in customary law can be seen with the 1652 arrival of colonial settlers and their administrations, during the era … the development of law in South Africa…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… 1884, the German State declared South-West Africa a German colonial territory. The Germans began to take more and more … weakened, the Germans became ever…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… identities, languages and ethnic bonds. During the colonial times, the Dutch East Indian introduced racial … the reproduction of social and economic life…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… Chiefs proved they were willing to be co-opted by the colonial rulers at the expense of their subjects. The … ended in chaos and police officials were…
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… suffered some of the harshest experiences of modern colonial history - first at the hands of the Germany then from South Africa. This German colonial…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
POLITICAL HARASSMENT FAROUK ASVAT was banned by the South African regime between 1973 and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… in order to undo the oppression which resulted from colonial domination. They also advocate for free education, …
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… 1914 1919 The British government passes the Rowlatt Act in colonial India, indefinitely extending the use of 'emergency …
EventCôte d’Ivoire gains independence from France
… The more recent pre-colonial history of CÁ´te d’Ivoire can be traced to the 17th … scramble for Africa, this system was replaced by French colonial rule in…