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ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… their return trips from Batavia (i.e. present day Java as part of Indonesia). 1653 Abraham van Batavia, the first … 1658 there were 11 slaves, 8 women and 3…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… all sharecroppers entering “black spots” were historically part of those communities. A significant number of … was compiled and the inhabitants were…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… Kangwane had the lowest GDP of any homelandin 1982. One of the most fragmented of homelands, Lebowa was supposed … zoned to fall within the Kangwane homeland…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… African, Horatio Mbelle , an articled clerk, was billed as one of the speakers. The rally, however never took place as … en masse. In that year thousands of…
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… social progress. The socialist system now embraces one-third of the world's population; the colonial system has … the world imperialist economy as an…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… of 1806 coincided with waves of domestic abolitionism, and one year later the country outlawed its slave trade. Slavery … tangible link with the slave past…
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… Today we receive a report whose creation has itself been a part of what has brought us to where we are. It represents a … has run on its course - cannot but…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… within the ranks of Botha's own cabinet. An important part of the crisis afflicting the racist system is the … our people will not stand by passively…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… to within the ranks of Botha`s own cabinet. An important part of the crisis afflicting the racist system is the … our people will not stand by passively…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… were forced to fight wars to win their independence. As part of the steps toward African self-governance, colonial … There was very little education and…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… that point, while the Dutch farmers had been given land as part of the policy of freehold ownership where they farmed … slaves and servants. By the end of…
The Afrikaner Bond
… thereby making it possible for Afrikaans speakers to take part in Parliament and government. The language question was … of the Afrikaner Bond In August 1875…
PlaceOld Durban Brook Street Cemetery
… What makes it so interesting, besides its significance as one of the oldest Cemeteries in the City, is its function as … assassinated in 1978. Known as the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… between April and July 1984. The increases were merely one among many inflationary pressures. General sales tax rose … trying to stop the trade union…
PlaceDinorben Farm, Eastern Cape
… Dinorben makes for a wonderful visit for a few hours if one is driving through this remote part of South Africa. It is one of the most easily accessible ……
The ANC and the Women’s League
… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner One day when I got up to go to work it was very cold, and it … and there were a lot of things we…
Sita - Memoirs of Sita Gandhi by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
… in Durban began from Phoenix. My father was the only one left to run the Settlement as my Grandfather has wished … decided to operate on my leg and remove…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… the international community’s need to guarantee that no one would ever be unjustly denied life, freedom, food, … rights and freedoms as proclaimed in the…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… small beginnings, the AAM developed a campaign that became one of the most powerful international solidarity movements … the 19th century, London became home…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… With him, Van Riebeeck also brings the Christian faith. One of the first things he does, for example, with his … Through the Great Trek in the late 1930s, a…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thenjiwe Mswane
… mourned the womxn whose child’s murderer would apologise one day. Having never asked, how did you wake up the next … rape and sexual violence. In 2015 and…
A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016
… therefore, that Captain Robert Charles Harker, for twenty-one years Government Resident of Plettenberg Bay, should bury … with a son-in-law - Doukamma, lying…
PlaceHistorical core of Wynberg Village
… an area of considerable architectural merit, and is one of the few suburbs close to the city of Cape Town which … was a complex of four buildings which forms…
PlaceSterkfontein Caves, Krugersdorp (within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site)
… time, excavations by other researchers, have made this one of the most important fields of scientific discovery in … This was used in the Manufacture of…
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 59 - Letter from … the Jewish members taking a less and…
Document 47 - “International Communist League Formed in South Africa”, International Bulletin of the International Communist League, New Series, 2, September 1934
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 47 - "International … workers, it has continued for more…
Document 16 - Letter from Clements Kadalie to E. R. Roux, 10 October 1928
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 16 - Letter from … work for African Trade Unionism than…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… formally laid out in 1858, and initially consisted of only one inhabited dwelling. However it followed a steady pattern … by British forces, and those Ngqika…
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… comprises an area that was once a farm called Chatsworth , part of Witteklip, which was acquired in 1848 by one Samuel Bennington and named by him after…
PlaceAddo Elephant Game Reserve, Port Elizabeth
… to stay near water, ie. the Sundays River!) Unfortunately, one of the biggest threats to the elephant Population is the … and their impact on prey species…