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ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… Zonnebloem, a name that makes reference to an 18th century colonial farm [x]. In 1979 the Cape Technikon, a White …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… later, of the Castle and other fortifications. After much colonial contestation, in the 18th century detachments of …
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with Rhodes to try to …
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… studying guerilla warfare that Ottilie discovered the anti-colonial resistance of Jakob Marengo. When some commented … has no colour’ . Ottilie managed to…
PlacePrince Alfred House, Waterloo Road, Wynberg
… This Colonial House has subsequently been sold and now used as a …
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… that there may be circumstances in which even a single pre-nation" should be supported in the demand for … in English, I would suggest that we use the word …
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… issues of the position of Western educated elites in the colonial structure and their impact in ‘imagining’, following … Benedict Anderson [2] , nationhood…
Liberation
… Conference in 1994.) The challenge to undo centuries of colonial and apartheid dispossession, repression, segregation … the fact that White commercial…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… the latter has appropriated from them. In this first anti-colonial Khoikhoi-Dutch War the settlers seek refuge in the … 30 head of cattle. This submission…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… those in the West Indies and Caribbean. Studies done on colonial era slave societies across the globe show how … that due to the isolation of these farms…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entrenched. … for white occupation as from January…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… and children as forced labourers. In 1828 the British colonial troops joined frontier farmers and attacked an area … Zulu rule. In 1844 he signed a treaty…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… the apartheid regime. The march culminated in the settler-colonial regime massacre of people at Sharpeville and Langa … be able to hear Sobukwe’s voice again…
ArchiveOpen letter to Perkine
… similar to the one eaged by the people of Angola against colonial and imperialist forces …
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… Joseph Chamberlain who was visiting South Africa. But the Colonial Secretary who had come to receive a gift of …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… which was the catalyst for the earlier struggle against colonial domination initiated by that noble soul from …
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… this scholarship positioned South African sociology as a pre-eminent academic centre in the sociology of work and, …
PlaceQunu, Wild Coast of Eastern Cape- Where Mandela Spent His Childhood
… access to water, electricity, Computer Labs, Libraries and pre-Schools. The people who deeply rooted in Xhosa Culture , …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Coast, but are defeated by the Portuguese. In a brutal colonial campaign, the Portuguese try to convert people into … Swahili population, and take Zanzibar…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… isolated people that were considered unwanted elements in colonial society. Among the first inhabitants were political … Among the political prisoners on…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… The period before we used this way of recording is called pre-history. We can only study pre-history through archaeology. Archaeology is the study of …
Nelson Mandela University presenting AEE REP qualification programme
… a voluntary international examination on the 4th day. No pre-requisites for attending the training required. …
ArchiveQuote from Marx
… Marx, Cecil Rhodes and Lenin. Map of Africa showing the colonial partition. Artwork of high society dining. Artwork …
Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The Conquest of Power in South Africa [1963]
… at the present stage of the class struggle. Hence our pre-occupation with them. Guerrilla warfare has been defined … revolution . Guerrilla warfare is the…
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.3 1970
… TONY MORPHET and MIKE KIRKWOOD. Contents: The Hyenas-A Colonial Study, E. Wyllie Findlay. Women in Love, Phil Joffe; …
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… these actions which informed state response in the pre-independence period. The lack of racial harmony in the …
EventThe Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is published for the first time.
The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser was the first newspaper to be published in Africa. It was started by two slave dealers, Alexander Walker and John…
Mission Stations - N-S
… NEU HANOVER , Natal: HM 1862 NEW HAVEN , Swaziland: SAM pre 1923; NFEH 1923 NEW HERMANNSBURG , Natal: HM NEWLANDS , … themselves very good and substantial…
PlaceTrevean House, 258 Wakesleigh Road, Bellair, Durban
… building is probably the best surviving example of a late Colonial Victorian building in Natal. It was declared a …
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
On 1 December 1834, slavery came to an end in the Cape Colony. The move to abolish slavery in the Colony came a year after the Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833…