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ArchiveRemembering Marikana: public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town by Heike Becker (2018)
… Remembering Marikana: public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town by Heike Becker (2018) …
PlaceSt. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town (also known as the: 'Parish of Our Lady of the Flight into Egypt'
… This Cathedral is known as:'The Parish of Our Lady, Flight in to Egypt'. The German architect, Carl Otto Hager , was the designer. He also did numerous other…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… are not synonymous. Open any school mathematics book and the role of African scholars has been relegated to the category of ‘ethnomathematics’, as if…
Document 141 “Apartheid Spells Disaster”, Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party’s National Conference, Johannesburg,6 to 8 January 1950,2y Freedom, New Series 15 December, 1949
… Drew Document 141 "Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party's … for increase in wages, pensions, more…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… listened to a debate on the national question between the Cape Literary and Debating Society and the Cape Fabian … by especially Gomas and Charles van…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by … Society””could now unfold to its fullest extent. In the Cape Colony the foundations of the new…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… March 1992, President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to participate. The aim of the…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively … Road; Vredefort Road; Welgelegen; Winburg; Wolwehoek. Cape Colony…
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… Anti-Apartheid Movement by boycotting South African wines, Cape grapes and Outspan oranges; by cutting sports and … needs. They have spoken out against…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… The Constitutional Court was established in 1994 by South Africa's first democratic constitution - the interim constitution of 1993. The Court, the key…
The South African Human Rights Commission
… South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in South Africa, including the … The South…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… In September 1993, the South African legislature approved the setting up of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council … South Africa’s transition to…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… was largely unexplored by Europeans for many centuries the maps that were created were by and large grossly inaccurate. They are still a fascinating look…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
… In August 1906, the British administration in the Transvaal passed the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance (Black Act) to control … Gandhi and the burning of…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… Africa Two places are of particular heritage interest in the Polokwane area: the BaKoni Malapa Museum south of the stadium and Makapansgat in the mountains…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… The Middle Ages in Europe, a feudal society Glossary Feudal Society : The stage of society that preceded capitalism, during which a small elite (the…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… On 3 March 1999, the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela , announced to the National Assembly (Parliament) that the second non-racial ……
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein, and was followed soon…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… The industrial Revolution has shaped the societies we live in … so great that once the Kimberley area was annexed by Cape Colony in 1880, it took only a…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… The Empire of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the Atlantic Coast to central parts of the…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… The conflict between the British Empire and the Zanzibar Sultanate in 1896 is most notable for being the shortest war in recorded history, lasting less than …
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to the police headquarters in Caledon Square. The protesters offered themselves up for arrest for not …
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , the Apartheid government was forced to consider reforms to … Developments leading…
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… Kgosi Sekonyela (c. 1804 – 20 July 1856) was a chief of the Batlokwa people. He effectively took over the … joined Moshoeshoe I; and others relocated to the…
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… The “Bolton Hall Four” David Davis , David Hemson , Jeannette … and Halton Cheadle were banned for five years under the Suppression of Communism Act on 1…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 3: The French Revolution
… On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in Paris. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution, which would last…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… In 1887 Zululand was annexed by the colony of Natal and the Zulu were gradually stripped of most of their arable … In 1903 an epidemic of East Coast fever…
ArticleTimeline of the 2014 general elections
… 2013, South Africa’s first registration weekend for the 2014 National and Provincial elections. 25 November 2013, by this date the number of registered…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… as a national flag, an anthem and a coat of arms unite the people of a country and make them proud to be a part of that country and all its achievements. The…
EventThe first weather forecast for the Union is issued
… After amalgamation of the weather services of the four provinces on 1 April 1912, the first weather … of the Union Weather Service from the branch office in…