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ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… Different sections of the South African community reacted to the formation of the republic in different ways. The fact that the republic had now been…
The oldest forms of human communication
… Some of the oldest forms of human communication include talking or making sounds, … Further down the line this progressed to meeting the needs of bartering…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… The coastline of the Eastern Cape is treacherous, and several ships ran … or sunk offshore after Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498. Some of…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture making a total of 384 trips. The first ship the Truro arrived on 16 November … ship, the…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed soon after the invention of writing, however, the creation of a formal…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… The Bambatha Rebellion claimed the lives of 4000 Zulu and 30 white people and cost the colonial government £740,000. Some of the Zulu died fighting on the…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… motion. These plans culminated in the formation and launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on 20 August 1983 in a … transition By the mid 1980s,…
ArticleSouth African Council of Churches (SACC)
… Brief political context on the formation and history of the SACC ... read on 5 July 1995 statement to a workshop on The role of the Church and the 'Healing…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… was not adopted immediately by the ANC. The executives of the four organisations of the Congress Alliance met at the beginning of August 1955 and agreed to…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… in 1909 combined the self-governing British colonies of the Natal, Cape, Transvaal and the Orange Free State into the Union of South Africa. The Act, which…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… night watchmen go on strike, demanding a wage increase of R10 per month. 8 January - Rumours of an upcoming strike at Coronation Brick and Tile in Durban … a…
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers in the Limpopo Province east of the Kalahari Desert. It is far bigger than similar sites … the word "imbabwe", which is the Shona…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… Nelson Mandela is considered by many to be the father of South Africa. Mandela was an anti-Apartheid activist, … that fought for those who were…
ArticleTimeline of the 2014 general elections
… elections. 25 November 2013, by this date the number of registered voters was 24 112 414, and the number of new voters added to the voters roll was over one…
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… The NCAW was established in 1933 by a group of women in Kimberley. It amalgamated a number of smaller welfare groups countrywide that had formed to … , who…
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… Some scientists say this was helped by the abundance of resources. Food and water were readily available and … gathered together their cattle in a kraal in…
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… Prehistory of Southern Africa The Dutch East India Company (VOC) … the Prestwich Memorial, celebrates the contribution of all these people to Cape Town…
ArticleSouth African Institute of Race Relations
… The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) was established in 1929 as an … and sociologists, and focused on socio economic conditions of those who…
Kingdoms of southern Africa: Activities | Grade 6
… Johannesburg: STE. Randles, W. G. L. (1975). The Empire of Monomotapa: from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century. … E. A. (1983). Mapungubwe: An…
The Order of the Southern Cross
… E Mphahlele for exceptional achievement in the field of literature and to Professor P Tobias in the field of palaeontology. … The Order of the Southern Cross…
Crisis of capitalism: The Great Depression in the USA and its wider impact in terms of the emergence of fascist economies and states
… Crisis of capitalism: The Great Depression in the USA and its wider impact in terms of the emergence of fascist economies and states …
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… At first I thought that a reading and a republishing of my Traditions of Poetry in Natal2 which attempted to … brought with it a haunting sensation. It was…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the … sustainable jobs and improve the lives of our people. Our landscape has changed…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to describe a distant and mystical place, the city of Timbuktu was…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague … then read – to get a textual compass…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe …
Speech by the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the Banquet hosted by the President of the Republic of India
… Speech by the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the Banquet hosted by the President of the Republic of India …
G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, "Appeal of the Ncrtional Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa", The Liberator, September 1937
… G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, "Appeal of the Ncrtional Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa", The Liberator,…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South African photographers, in 1986, and…
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General
… Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General …