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ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
… this violent clash marked a turning point in the European colonial mission known as the Scramble for Africa . This … such a powerful symbol of African…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… [49] Mesthrie argues that Fanakalo is associated ‘with colonial racism and cheap labour.’ [50] He goes on to state … are based on master-servant discourse,…
PlaceCameroon
… between the people and their environment. Before the colonial period, Cameroon was made up of a variety of … of the kingdoms continued to exert influence…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… near Ceres. 1826 Guardian of Slaves appointed. The Colonial Office intervened by forcing local colonial assemblies to bring the local amelioration …
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… was on many occasions short-lived and quickly quashed by colonial authorities who were more often than not greater in … of the slave trade had also crossed…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… on the conditions of native Angolans under Portuguese colonial rule, warning that the apartheid state was equally … on black people’s rights in the same way…
EventThe Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is published for the first time.
The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser was the first newspaper to be published in Africa. It was started by two slave dealers, Alexander Walker and John…
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
… Lord Robert's only son was killed in action. The Colonial Office sent massive troop reinforcements under the … did not expect. The failure of these campaigns…
PlacePrince Alfred House, Waterloo Road, Wynberg
… This Colonial House has subsequently been sold and now used as a …
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… - this sort of myth was rife in the Rhodesian settler-colonial imagination. Having been met with resistance from … as a justification of the "civilising…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… studying guerilla warfare that Ottilie discovered the anti-colonial resistance of Jakob Marengo. When some commented … has no colour’ . Ottilie managed to…
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
On 1 December 1834, slavery came to an end in the Cape Colony. The move to abolish slavery in the Colony came a year after the Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… and severe as that between Bantus and Whites. In resisting colonial expansion, Black African rulers founded sizable and …
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… economic and political life was being restructured by colonial forces. Grateful thanks are extended to Sue Tilley, …
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… Zonnebloem, a name that makes reference to an 18th century colonial farm [x]. In 1979 the Cape Technikon, a White …
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with Rhodes to try to …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… later, of the Castle and other fortifications. After much colonial contestation, in the 18th century detachments of …
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… issues of the position of Western educated elites in the colonial structure and their impact in ‘imagining’, following … Benedict Anderson [2] , nationhood…
ArchiveOpen letter to Perkine
… similar to the one eaged by the people of Angola against colonial and imperialist forces …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… which was the catalyst for the earlier struggle against colonial domination initiated by that noble soul from …
EventCongo administration is handed to the Belgian government
… policies toward the Congolese. Atrocities committed by colonial officials in the Congo were circulated in Europe, … be the most graphic account of the…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… the apartheid regime. The march culminated in the settler-colonial regime massacre of people at Sharpeville and Langa … be able to hear Sobukwe’s voice again…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… independence. The coming of independence from European colonial rule was an important watershed in the way that … became the responsibility of…
Liberation
… Conference in 1994.) The challenge to undo centuries of colonial and apartheid dispossession, repression, segregation … the fact that White commercial…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… the latter has appropriated from them. In this first anti-colonial Khoikhoi-Dutch War the settlers seek refuge in the … 30 head of cattle. This submission…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… those in the West Indies and Caribbean. Studies done on colonial era slave societies across the globe show how … that due to the isolation of these farms…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entrenched. … for white occupation as from January…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… and children as forced labourers. In 1828 the British colonial troops joined frontier farmers and attacked an area … Zulu rule. In 1844 he signed a treaty…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… isolated people that were considered unwanted elements in colonial society. Among the first inhabitants were political … Among the political prisoners on…
ArchiveQuote from Marx
… Marx, Cecil Rhodes and Lenin. Map of Africa showing the colonial partition. Artwork of high society dining. Artwork …