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BiographySimon van der Stel
… A variety of vineyards were soon laid out on this land and a labour force of slaves worked the harvest. While … trade with the Khoikhoi and make insatiable…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… the African people of the area were dispossessed of their land, their rights and their heritage. Although the evidence … the buildings and artefacts…
BiographyLindiwe Mazibuko
… she became the Shadow Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform. In 2011 Mazibuko was elected as the DA’s …
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… under an absolute monarch, the Tsar. It was large in both land size and population. By 1914, Russia had a population of … political power. The upper class…
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
… Nyamanda, the eldest son of Lobengula*, to petition the land issues in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and Nyamanda's …
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… who arrived from Britain in 1820. Each group needed land for their families and their livestock. The Xhosa believed that land was for the use of all the…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… Pre-Colonial era Along the river systems of Senegambia, "Land of the Sapes", thick forest vegetation and the abundance …
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
By late February 1973, the spread of the strikes was the most significant development since Sharpeville and the turn to armed struggle. The striking workers…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… Minister Smuts to reach some sort of agreement on the land and property issues. On 29 March 1944, the SAIC … be involved in public and political affairs. The…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… raiders were groups of Tswana, Khoi and San who lost their land and livestock. The Kora were also joined by runaway … in negotiations and struggles for…
BiographyJane Gool
… new restrictions on access of the black population to the land, their total disenfranchisement and the creation of the … Education The Dispossessed Peasantry…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… government until 1924. In speeches, he opposed the Native Land Act (1913), which curtailed land for Blacks, but in practice he did little to resist the …
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… human history. A place where humans settled and used the land in a way that represents their culture can also be a …
Tools and weapons from iron and copper
Division of labour: gender-based activity: men Work within the African societies was divided according to gender. The men were herders, hunters and warriors…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… the ANC. Rubusana was involved in every aspect of the Anti-Land Act Campaign which was an attack on the Native Land Bill of June 1913. He featured…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… of the United States of America towards a veritable "Land of the Free". In South Africa , however, the Nationalist … of races and protect white minority rule…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… tribal sovereignty, allocating and distributing land and settling land disputes, providing spiritual leadership and the …
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… because they are lying down, peace) Protea (emblem of our land’s beauty and the flowering of our land’s potential) Secretary bird (a protector, a messenger…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
My paper is about two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899…
BiographyMolefe Pheto
… in Mochudi, Botswana, and his father not returning to the land of Moruleng and ending up in Alexandra, to his own … J. “Exile’s Bullish Reconnection with his…
BiographyMichael Madimetja Teffo
… subject matter’ into his work. In 1981, the plot of land on which Teffo had established a studio three years …
BiographyFikile Charles Bam
… Bam’s current positions include Judge President of the Land Claims Court from 1995, and a member of the Eastern Cape …
BiographySchalk Burger
… in 1913, he was appointed as a Commissioner in the Natives Land Commission headed by William Beaumont . Burger continued … Marleen Flemmer, ‘Sir William H…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… adverse winds. Beating on for some days without sighting land, they unwittingly rounded the Cape of Good Hope in late … after a fruitless search for a…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… formed. The slogan of the revolution was ‘Bread, Peace and Land’. When the Provisional Government failed to act to end … of increased rural impoverishment as…
BiographyMotsamai Keyecwe Mpho
… of his comrades composed a song Fatshe leno La Rona (Our Land) which he taught them. Thus, Mpho became one of the …
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… wrote a history of the Afrikaners, Die Geskiednis van ons Land in die Taal van ons Volk (The History of our Land in the Language of our Nation), published in…
Emma Thandi Mashinini
… and was appointed commissioner for the Restitution of Land Rights in 1995. Mashinini was awarded the National Order …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… Campaign (committed to open defiance of the laws of the land). The reasons cited by many sources for this split are … 1982 when the Tanzania government…
BiographyDoman
… the Dutch was bluntly refused. Without the help of the inÂland Cochoqua, the old chief replied, an attack on the fort …