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ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… workforce, [7] employing hundreds of thousands of workers from a multitude of ethnic backgrounds. [8] Workers come from different areas within South Africa,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from both organisation incapacity and financial constraints. … attempted to reinvigorate itself by…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… stayed in a nurses' dormitory overnight where he sheltered from the gunfire. The protest also led to the Communist Party … life and convinced him that…
Mission Stations - I-L
… 226), who recorded it as follows: "We met a kind reception from Robert Niven, who was residing alone, in a stone house … wicker forms, in concentric circles,…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… labourers arrived in Durban, Natal on 16 November 1860. From their arrival Indian workers were forced to endure the … overcrowded areas and uninhabitable…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… burden. It is powerfully woven together to prevent it from crumbling and breaking. Inkatha was kept in a secret hut … was a belief that Zulu kings derived…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… government initiated many reforms. They took land from the Tsar, the church, nobles and other landlords, and … with no work breaks or time off. Children born…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was … human rights violations. They were forcefully removed from their…
Glossary: Local History
… or impression of a plant or animal that has been excavated from the ground. Generation All people who are roughly the … Lime A chemical substance that burns…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… rights in the Matabeleland and other adjoining territories from King Lobengula. He arrived accompanied by an army and … organised labour system and depended…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… is one of Africa’s leading intellectuals, originating from Uganda, and has worked at Universities across the … and Subject, he has also written books on…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… together with senior members of the ANC was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor prison after spending 18 … and several top ANC leaders. While the NP…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… of the ANC Youth league in 1944 which demanded freedom from white domination and political independence laid down … galvanised women to demand adequate food…
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… worth of armaments specifically submarines and frigates from a French-German consortium and Fighter-jets from a British-Swedish consortium in order to retain…
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… factors, while some might focus on political differences from one period to another. We examine political revolution … (Industrial revolution), the transfer…
Mission Stations - G-H
… of Ga Ratau: "We used sun-dried bricks made by the men from inferior clay. Working with clay is usually women's … same year (1799) the Brethren built a very…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy Chapter 8 Into … of us on trial, words and phrases like “quashed”, “expunge from the record” and “my learned…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… cause than any amount of moralistic sermonising ever did from the pulpit. Local acceptance of early missionaries in … took appropriate action. Whole…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… movement. LESTER : We all feel a repugnance for violence from whatever source, but it is especially unhelpful, in … were aroused. Councillors were called…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… In reality, abolition did not translate into emancipation from slavery, but rather the cessation of slave trading by … being to placate abolitionists by …
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… passed the Natives’ Land Act that prohibited black people from owning or renting land outside special areas called … up only 7% of the land in South Africa…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… However, Mzilikazi’s Matabeles had to be expelled from the Western Transvaal (now North West Province) before a … the beginning of November 1837, but sources…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… On 28 October 1917 more than 400 market gardeners from the Springfield Flats (Tintown) area in Durban, Natal … for the bravery of six seine-netters who saved…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… indentured labourers in Natal. 1860 Indentured workers, from India, arrive in Durban, Natal 1872 Law 12/1872 - made … (Transvaal) passes Law 3 of 1885 ,…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time
… in which we live.e.g we can now taste fruits and produce from other countries. We can also visit family and friends who live far from our towns or areas…
Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa Activity
… other name can we call herders? 4. Where did they come from? 5. What does the name Khoikhoi mean? 6. Why did … 7. How was the way the…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… response to evictions of farm workers and labour tenants from commercial farms. Formed as an umbrella body, the LPM … Assembly. This Assembly brought…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… and applied mathematics. The earliest mathematicians were from Africa and female? . The earliest artifact globally, … certainly seems to suggest this. Tally…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… took the view that Johannesburg would be no different from any of the other gold mining villages which had preceded … specifically for the new Reef diggings…
ArticleTransport on land
… invented. The first wheels were simply solid discs, carved from one lump of wood. The wheel changed the way that people … The oldest wheel that…