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Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800 - 1990 by Martin Legassick
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Henry Reed Ngcayiya
He trained as a teacher at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession…
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Volume VI - Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… After South West Africa became a German colony in the late 1800s, the Herero were driven further and further off their …
The Government states in Parliament that 18,000 persons have been arrested and detained since the proclamation of the emergency
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil…
EventThe first plots are sold in Mayfair on the West Rand
… No.258, the farm on which gold was discovered in the late 1800s. The mineral rights of Langlaagte were bought by J.B …
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As…
The Atlantic slave trade
… was an economic, not a humanitarian, act. By the early 1800s the new captains of industry in England favoured …
BiographyAndries Hendrik Potgieter
Andries Hendrik Potgieter was born in the Graaff Reinet district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of Petronella…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaLife in Southern Africa changed greatly because of the discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886). As with…
PlaceKalk Bay, Southern Suburbs- Cape Town
… back centuries. The stairways here were built in the late 1800s to connect the harbour to hillside cottages. At that …
EventThe ‘Hospital and Lunatic Asylum’, the first civilian hospital in Cape Town, is opened
… In the early 1800s, there was only one hospital for army men in the Cape, …
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… the part of the Boer republics in particular. By the mid-1800s, the British had essentially given up control of the …
BiographyMary Agnes Stainbank
Mary Agnes Stainbank was born in 1899 on the farm Coedmore in Bellair, Durban. She was educated at St. Anne's DSG at Hilton. Stainbank was an artist way ahead…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… Sugar farming grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” …
Afrikaner
… came from British English-speaking ministers in the early 1800s, and the Swiss reformer John Calvin (1509–1564) who was … in the work Bayaan-ud-djyn written…
PlaceAngola
… factions over who was going to rule, continued into the 1800s, further eroding the legitimacy and power of the King … to rule continued. One of the greatest…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
1500-1800 This period is marked by the advent and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central and East Africa. On the Southern African…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
The Mfecane (a Zulu word which translates to “the crushing”) or Difiqane (a Sotho word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other…
Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer and settler who was a member of an expedition to the Zulu chief Shaka in the 1820s, is born in Lo
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund was born on 17 March 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German…
BiographyDenis Mayer
Denis Mayer was born in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to…
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… in the early 19th century.Museum in a quaint cottage with 1800s furnishings, a period kitchen, lace displays & a fairy …
PlaceNewington Road Victorian Houses, Port Elizabeth
… cottages and buildings that date back to the late 1800s. Any hint of falling out of favour with local residents …
PlaceLiberia
… the first President. The founding of Liberia in the early 1800s was motivated by the domestic politics of slavery and …
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… in Kaditshwene made metal goods. In the early parts of the 1800s, there was much conflict among the peoples of southern …
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
Where was Charlotte Maxeke born? Many sources cite Charlotte Maxeke’s (née Mannya) birth place as Fort Beaufort the Eastern Cape, however, there are other…
BiographyDavid Stuurman
David Stuurman was born around 1773, probably near the Gamtoos River in the Eastern Cape. From the 17th century onwards, the Khoi and San people were…