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ArticleKora
… a nomadic Khoikhoi group that probably derived their name from a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a … (`-qua’ meaning ‘people of’). This…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… to extract some lessons/reflections for the present from ESKOM’s past. This is especially important in 2022 where … coal – a primary resource for electricity…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… excellence, it now includes performances and productions from both South African as well as international acts. … to speak, think or act. In this way, we…
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… the farmers Archaeologists found a lot of information from their research surrounding Suikerbosrand and … Clay pots Stones used for grinding Remains of huts…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… new measures be introduced in Natal to prohibit Indians from buying agricultural land in a specified area along the … enables the Durban City Council to…
The French Revolution
… parts of the world. Spark Notes on the French Revolution: From the world famous Spark Notes an overview of the French … leave the land they lived and worked…
The State of Art in South Africa Conference
… Held at the University of Cape Town from 16-20 July 1979, The State of Art in South Africa … it has a direct relation to the community it emerges from,…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… a convenient label for this period, as people made tools from iron, but all the other facets of these societies should … clicks in the Nguni languages, for…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… Patricia Johnson-Castle Patricia Johnson-Castle hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a Labrador … in the cooperative research project…
ArticleBlack Sash
… Voters Bill, a ploy by the government to remove Coloureds from the common voters' roll. The women saw this as a … sashes. They attracted some support but…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… established by modern archaeologist this festival lasted from some time before 776 B.C. to 393 A.D.During the 19th … had an impressive exhibit at the expo,…
ArticleNational Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR)
… South Africa to encourage dialogue and dissuade churches from promoting violence. It was successful in attracting … NIR's other programs were to open…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… livestock and political power. As voortrekkers moved away from the Cape Colony to escape British rule, they fought, … by annexing more land and at times even…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… Amongst one of the companies where the union organised from 1973 was Sarmcol, a subsidiary of a British Tyre and … for recognition and being denied, workers…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… Buoyed by a mandate in favour of organising African unions from the overwhelming majority of affiliated unions, the … the year progressed, TUCSA publicly…
ArticleSouth African Film
… its own story-telling techniques, some of which derive from the continent’s rich tradition of oral history and … films, and important directors like Djibril…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… thousands of foreign nationals every year, seeking refuge from poverty, economic crises, war and government persecution … in their home countries. While the…
America, Spanish conquest
… All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The … and merchants taught the Aztecs how to…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… garrisons, military posts and signal towers. Resistance from particularly the Xhosa was a cohesive one; other Xhosa … superior weapons such as guns quickly…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… the segregation of the Black populations of South Africa from the White minority as a means of upholding the … provide enough employment for Blacks, thus…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… Free State and British colonies like Natal could also gain from the riches and investment brought to the country. The … soon squeezed out. Prospectors…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… Your smallest coin has it on one of its sides. When away from the country seeing a plaque of it on the embassy signals a home away from home. The coat of…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… because the sound of their language was so different from any European language, and they could not pronounce many … Khoikhoi only ate cattle that had died…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… union also wanted Coca-Cola advertisment to be isolated from general advertising for the 2010 soccer World Cup. 11 … national road network. 27 – 29 March:…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… the conflict between AZAPO and the UDF in Soweto from 1984 to 1993. At its inception in 1979 AZAPO adopted the … Convention (BPC). In the first four years of…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… Free State and British colonies like Natal could also gain from the riches and investment brought to the country. The … soon squeezed out. Prospectors…
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
… has even taken on projects of taking over properties from slum lords in crime ridden Hillbrow. With his life in … Johannesburg, South Africa: | Ishmael…
BiographyThemba Godi
… where he still serves. In September 2007, Godi broke away from the PAC and became the founding President of the African … Legislatures: Quality, Capacity,…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… its partners were democratic and that leaders were elected from the working class. This approach encouraged the … union movement in South Africa. FOSATU…
National Orders Recipients
… South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion and discrimination on the basis of … of South Africa. One of the symbolic moments of the…