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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…
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…
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…
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 …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… later, of the Castle and other fortifications. After much colonial contestation, in the 18th century detachments of …
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with Rhodes to try to …
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…
PlacePrince Alfred House, Waterloo Road, Wynberg
… This Colonial House has subsequently been sold and now used as a …
‘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…
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…
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…
ArchiveOpen letter to Perkine
… similar to the one eaged by the people of Angola against colonial and imperialist forces …
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… Joseph Chamberlain who was visiting South Africa. But the Colonial Secretary who had come to receive a gift of …
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 …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Coast, but are defeated by the Portuguese. In a brutal colonial campaign, the Portuguese try to convert people into … Swahili population, and take Zanzibar…
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 …
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.3 1970
… TONY MORPHET and MIKE KIRKWOOD. Contents: The Hyenas-A Colonial Study, E. Wyllie Findlay. Women in Love, Phil Joffe; …