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ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… imposed a labour tax of ten shillings a year on owning land for Africans, unless they could prove that they had been … near Johannesburg (Swanson, 1977: 388)…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… were needed to look after herds of animals and to work the land. The areas they lived in could also support larger … farmers to plant more crops, but this…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… town. They could not own property here, only rent it, as land could only be white owned. Promotion of Bantu … and resentment. People lost their homes, were…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… what they had seen at the Cape – plenty of water, fertile land and lots of wild animals. The VOC was the wealthiest and … As the settlement grew, the…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… could only participate in local actions. Vague promises of land repossession and liberation came and went. The ICU …
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… which include forced removals and the expropriation of land, the pass laws, racial classification and related …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… were also able to force the Khoi and San off their land. Because of this, many South African San people either … that the Khoi-Khoi livestock always had…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… new communist government initiated many reforms. They took land from the Tsar, the church, nobles and other landlords, … socialist economy. Nationalisation:…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… to control the rope tied around the tree. This land crew was made up of Seaman Doorasamy, Chinathumby … one would never know? The evaluator reported that the…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
In the following years, the African National Congress (ANC) leadership evolved to be more inclined to action than passive deputation, but very little was…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… a communication and trade route across a huge and harsh land. Yearly flooding of the Nile nourished the dry … role of god, king and high priest. The Pharaoh…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… states in southern Africa, confiscated the bulk of the land and imposed cash taxation demands. In this way, they … at least 75% of the population making its…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… kingdom's economy- nor had the Zulu been deprived of their land. The hut tax, however, served to divert some of the … at Vryheid. When the Transvaalers tried…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… if it hoped to deliver the African majority into a free land. These young members felt that the ANC was far too … was in reaction to the introduction of the…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… were often preferred by wealthy farmers. The ownership of land among poor farmers became increasingly tenuous as many were forced to sell their land in…