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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…
PlaceTrevean House, 258 Wakesleigh Road, Bellair, Durban
… building is probably the best surviving example of a late Colonial Victorian building in Natal. It was declared a …
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…
I will not Compromise About my Work: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa by Robin Scher ( ArtsNews.com), 2017
… a bucket of feces onto a statue of Cecil John Rhodes, a colonial expansionist who provided the original endowment of … was a learning environment that…
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,…
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…
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… has subsequently been published; The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa by Robert Ross. This book provides a … is thus crucial in understanding the…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Bay, now Port Elizabeth, became a thorn in the side of the colonial authorities. Established for a group of about 600 … For them, Bethelsdorp was a refuge…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… as growing resentment between the farmers and the British colonial authorities. The farmers argued that because the colonial government limited the…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… and descendants in order to hopefully develop a solution. Colonial expansion contributed to the development of … forced to serve the colonists (South Africa…
PlaceElliot, Thembuland
… changed to Elliot, after Sir Henry Elliot , a prominent Colonial administrator and Chief Magistrate of Transkie , …
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
… Front. The merged Patriotic Front helped Mugabe defeat the colonial government of Ian Smith in 1980. Since then Mugabe …
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
… was considered to be a distinguished member of the British colonial army, and he was lauded at home for establishing the …
EventThe district of Uitenhage is founded in the Eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
… Uitenhage de Mist felt there was a need to improve the colonial administration of the Cape areas. The new district …
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… visions of political and spiritual liberation from colonial forces, both formal and informal. The northern … The treaty, signed before the formal start of…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… cultural material from southern Africa, artefacts from the colonial period of the Cape, including maritime and … leather clothing worn by the San thousands…
Under the influence of Dumile Feni’s 'African Guernica' by Sharlene Khan (The Conversation), 07 September 2016
… neo-colonialisms. One assumes that Feni is commenting on colonial racism that by this time has become … institutionalised as apartheid in South Africa…
ArchiveThe international situation
… the 3rd-5th of January, 1962. This paper outlines the anti-colonial struggles of the oppressed around the world. The …
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… 29% 11% 4% Following is a brief review of the history of colonial conquest and land dispossession in South Africa, … R. (1993). Beyond the Pale: Essays on…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
… believed to be the name of the son of a local Nguni pre-colonial headman, chief Musi, who had lived in the east of …
The oldest forms of human communication
… provides a taste of Africa's rich heritage, long before colonial times. South Africa's distant past may be learned …
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… movements in countries that were still under the grip of colonial occupation, white minority rule and apartheid took …
Address to the SANC Local Government Conference, 30 July 1999 Johannesburg
… in their socio-political and economic life. Part of the colonial legacy was the local system of control and … exercise of power through indirect rule…
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
… as growing resentment between the farmers and the British colonial authorities. The farmers argued that because the colonial government limited the…
EventMozambique gains independence
… After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique became independent as People's …
EventThe longest state of emergency in Kenya ends
… EvelynBaring, due to the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule and incarceration of thousands of Kenyans. This …
EventGhana is declared a republic
… Ghana became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence on 6 March 1957. On …
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… those elsewhere-in Africa - and the people of any other colonial territory. "Colonial" living standards, deprivation of political rights … similar pattern…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… is obvious that the more acute grows the struggle of the colonial people in both Africa and Asia, Imperialism too will … cannot possibly be withdrawn anymore…
PlaceCiskei
… that was applied to administer the area under British Colonial Rule . The Bunga, which was an advisory council, … the traditional inkundla (local assemblies)…