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ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… them into less fertile areas of the region. Soon the colonial project was well underway. With the systematic …
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… each year from an archive of San narratives recorded by colonial linguists Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek in the 1870s. …
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… people everywhere in the world. And having fought colonial domination in Algeria, they know what is involved in …
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… and old farmhouses that smack of the luxuries of a bygone colonial era. During the harvest (April to September), …
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… old coastal town. It is home to the City Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the mid-1800’s. Its clock …
EventPope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who were persecuted and martyred from 1885
… on 3 June1886. In the last week of May the new King of pre-colonial Buganda, ordered the arrest and detention of a …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… for the trek was the general dissatisfaction with British colonial rule in the Cape Colony. The language (Afrikaans), …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Hendrik Prinsloo planned an uprising against the British colonial government as they believed that the British favored …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… of Samuel Maharero started a rebellion against German colonial rule. With good knowledge of the terrain and …
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… For the next decade Rhodesia was subjected to anti colonial struggles led by Zimbabwe African National Union …
PlaceKleinzee, Northern Cape
Kleinzee is easy to find. Take the N7 from Cape Town, travel for about 560 km and then veer left at Springbok, following the course of the Skaap River, which…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… humiliating requests for aid to the West's former colonial powers’. The Economist reports on interventions led …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… Miller Longman, 1991, p.19. “As early as 1870 the British colonial authorities in Lesotho (then Basutoland) imposed a … Earl of Kimberley, who at the time…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil war was raged between two major …
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… north-west South Africa to determine its suitability for colonial settlement. Due to the extent of his involvement, …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… them ended disastrously for the British forces. The Colonial Office sent Roberts and Kitchener along with …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… much like the rest of the African continent, was ruled by colonial powers that left a legacy of ethnic and class …
Address to the Biennial Meeting of the Association for The Development of Education in Africa (Adea), Johannesburg, 6 December 1999
… task at hand is magnified when we consider the legacy of colonial education, the long-term effects of the domination … the incorporation of the African…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Natal is prohibited with effect from 1 July. 13 March, The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a … October, Albert Christopher, Ruben…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… workers. To induce the coolies into second terms, the colonial government of Natal promised grants of land on … to work on the sugar plantations. However,…
PlaceTolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
It was in South Africa that Gandhi developed, between 1910 and 1913, his Satyagraha philosophy of passive resistance, and it was on Tolstoy Farm that he and…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
Christopher Daluxolo Mpofu (popularly known as Dali Mpofu) is a South African advocate, legal expert, and former African National Congress (ANC) stalwart…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
The term “poor whites” was coined during the 19th century, as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land.[1] This…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… 1914 53. The significance of the settlement for the colonial-born India Part II: The search for equality, … on the colonisation scheme 63. Colonisation…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… & Victoria Manor , which transports visitors back to Colonial times. 'Kaladokhwe' is an isiXhosa word distorted … it stood at 7,762, of whom 3,313 were…
PlaceAngola
… various local people and created the colony of Angola. The colonial conquest of Angola by the Portuguese was a process … establishing Angola's contemporary…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… Its construction followed an ordinance passed by the Colonial Administration to regulate the storage of volatile … of the strategic importance Graaff-Reinet…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… the first one hundred and forty years of Australian colonial history was marked by conflict and dispossession. … colonists discovered it. This myth was…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902), the influence of the English colonial presence spread all over the country and established … so-called 'native question'. But…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… in the experiences of those who were forced into colonial slavery. It is thus important to note that this … carnival has its roots in South Africa’s painful…