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ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… tax and poll tax that forced Africans to work for European settlers. Africans were forced to work for Europeans in order … played an important role…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… indigenous San hunter-gatherers and Khoi herders. Dutch settlers killed San livestock which the San needed to survive and many of the San were also killed by…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… the VOC established their presence at the Cape. Dutch settlers at the Cape of Good Hope arrived in 1652 when Jan … New Guinea. The origins of this migration…
First Matabele War
… cattle grazing areas. In 1890, Rhodes sent a group of settlers, known as the Pioneer Column, into Mashonaland and … Greedily, Rhodes had been distributing…
The Arrival of the Khoisan
… language of the first Khoikhoi people that the European settlers met. There is no archaeological evidence to support … used name like this to show their…
Khoisan Identity
… who did not speak Khoi languages – known to white settlers as ‘Bushmen’ - in contradistinction to the … in 1928 by Leonard Schultze as a collective category…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved further north and east from Cape Town. This … called simply 'die taal' ('the language'…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… the first European people. The Khoisan were not the only early residents of our area. Bantu-speaking people also … arrived in South Africa at the same time…
Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa Activity
… What does the name Khoikhoi mean? 6. Why did European settlers call the Khoikhoi Hottentots? 7. How was the way …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… All of this suggests that ‘scientists’ in the mid-19th to early 20th centuries were obsessed with issues of race. In … influenced laws and public policy in…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… on the islands of São Tomé and Principé. The Portuguese settlers on these islands used slaves bought from the Kongo … and joined a convent in Santa Barbara…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. 4 February, The Second Round-Table … S.L. Singh and P.R. Pather form the Colonial…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… David Jansz and takes off with almost the whole of the settlers' herd of cattle. He is pursued but not captured. … the ownership of the land takes place…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… ) was ruled by White people (descendants of white European settlers). This government was exclusively for white people. … see: http://www.sahistory.org.za…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… practices are still practised today! SAN AND THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS: Europeans arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 … and medicine, which they also used…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Kisumu is completed, spanning 965 km. European and Indian settlers arrive in great numbers in East Africa. White settlers control the colony and take the…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… to seek employment on the farmlands of white colonial settlers. After the British took over the Cape Colony from … to prevail. “Native” reserves were…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… governments encouraged their citizens to become permanent settlers in their African colonies, providing them with … after processing in Europe. It is not…
The National Arts Festival
… In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the … board of directors. It operates out of the 1820…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… growing, and government planned to forcibly remove the settlers. The government introduced what became known as the …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… meeting with Fynn and Farewell, Shaka granted the English settlers an area about Port Natal of about 6500 km² in … alight and was lost at sea with all lives…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… to colonise large parts of the world. The focus is on the early processes of colonisation and the consequences on the … on the islands of São Tomé and…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… degradation and changes in the global climate. Settlers from southeast Asia and later, from the east African … Limpopo River . Large towns of thousands of…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… period for colonial rulers. The climate before WW2 By the early 1900s European countries had succeeded in establishing … that land was taken away from…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… demographic transformation in southern Africa during the early nineteenth century. The Nguni word mfecane translates … demographic transformation in southern…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… that have been collected since the arrival of white settlers. These are collected primarily for government …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… enjoy from missionaries lead to tensions between the white settlers on the one hand and their servants and labourers and … at Gqokoli Hill 1820 Approximately…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… in the mid-nineteenth century in Natal when British settlers, Zulu speakers and Afrikaners came into contact. … British settlers and Afrikaners in Natal are…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… refers to the descendants of the Dutch/Afrikaans-speaking settlers in southern African during the 18th to early 20th century. Colonization : The action…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… amongst a few hundred Europeans. Almost all of these early slaves arrived at the Cape with VOC officials returning … arrived at the Cape with VOC officials…