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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… the continent, he calls for a reassessment of the imposed colonial story of South African history: Black living has …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…