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PlaceKenya
… eventually captured the coastal regions and held them as a colonial asset for the following two centuries. In 1698, … the Kamba and particularly the Kikuyu…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… Centre, after a 19th-century Pedi king who resisted colonial conquest. The prison houses a Gallows Museum, where …
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… also affected South Africa. Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the ethnic and racial terms …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750
… from the idea of the mfecane, which is linked to outdated, colonial-era ideas of the centrality of the ‘wars of Shaka’. …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… took back control again. Angola only became a Portuguese colonial settlement after the decline of the slave trade in … Importantly, the abolition of slavery…
Political executions
… in Paarl riots (1962). Payi, Clarence Lucky, 22 1986/09/09 Pre ANC members. Killing of Benjamin Langa (1984). Pretoria …
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… The name 'Schweizer Reneke' provides no insight into the Pre-Colonial History of the Area. In official documents relating …
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… ideals we are striking out in a new direction. During colonial and apartheid times, our museums and monuments … the kind of heritage which glorified mainly…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… people. The rural African population changed from their pre-colonial status as pastoralist-cultivators to their current …
ArticleKora
… 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 1930-1939
… South African Indian Community with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. 4 February, … Manilal Gandhi, S.L. Singh and P.R…
Durban an Overview
… activity for the region and boasts of a number of fine colonial and post-colonial buildings. A Concert Hall, known as the Pavilion, …
ArticleActivity: Human evolution
… archaeologists study to find out about the past? What does pre-history mean? Why is archaeology important to us? Early …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… the advice of Cape Governor W.A. van der Stel, the Dutch colonial administration annuls its policy of forbidding the … farmers or Trek Boers. This paves the…
Pedi
… are now made of oil-drums and milk-urns. Land tenure The pre-colonial system of communal or tribal tenure which was … African region was cemented, but subtly…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… of three judicial divisions responsible for conducting Pre-Trials, Trials and Appeals. The third organ of the Court … but also of who the ICC is accountable…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… soon degenerated into raiding and warfare. In 1657 the colonial authorities started a process of allotting farms to … them of their independence and…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… to extricate themselves from clutches of encroaching colonial domination. What precipitated these early struggles …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… Colonial History of Domestic Work Since slaves were used as … 18th century, domestic employment originated during the colonial era [i] . Early Dutch…
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…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… Holland Cotter ’70 writes in a recent review. For African, Pre-Columbian, and other works, Cotter observes that “you … housed objects classified as …
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… major forum for resistance photographers that challenged colonial photography, Gary Minkley and Ciraj Rassool trace … of the Western world. [9] Obviously,…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… stimulated African intellectuals to intensify their anti-colonial efforts. Revolts against the colonial governments started to increase in number, scope and …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… Under colonialism, prison camps were widely used by colonial rulers to ensure an accessible supply of forced … without trial led to overpopulated prisons and…
ArchiveOur children are the flowers of the future
… Vumani pre-school project poster. Yellow background with orange …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… a period from the 1870s to the mid-1970s; from early colonial intervention against togt (day) workers to the … and control and the transformation of the…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… Britain would facilitate change in South Africa and in the colonial world. Ismail and Ellen Mohamed in London in 1959, …
History of the Labour Movements in South Africa
… number of people were forced through intimidation, taxes, colonial and capitalist expansion to become wage labourers in …
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… Esteva 1992). Indeed, Majid Rahnema states that former colonial rulers were “seeking a new system of domination, in … decision to destroy foreign flora…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian …