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| P-0123446 | place | Dock House, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront-Cape Town | 5 Jun 2017 | ✓ |
| P-0065753 | place | St Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town | 14 Jul 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0013910 | place | Ganyesa | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0016592 | article | Pre-colonial history of Southern Africa | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| P-0151211 | place | Fresnaye, Cape Town | 9 Dec 2021 | ✓ |
| P-0061800 | place | Limpopo Province | 31 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0096312 | biography | Sara “Saartjie” Baartman | 1789-1815 | ✓ |
| B-0008897 | biography | Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje | 1876-1932 | – |
| B-0008102 | biography | Graham Goddard | 1956 | – |
| B-0149618 | biography | Ebrahim Badsha | 1931-2003 | ✓ |
| A-0016977 | article | The spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0008221 | biography | Elsa Joubert | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0094076 | biography | Evelina de Bruin | 1933-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0096411 | biography | Zuleika Sarojini Christopher | 1924-1992 | – |
| A-0150577 | article | History Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers | 10 Nov 2020 | ✓ |
| P-0013959 | place | Green Point | 11 May 2026 | ✓ |
| P-0066122 | place | Market Square, Port Elizabeth | 14 Jul 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0017091 | article | Ndebele | 24 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0016814 | article | Griqua | 21 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0065348 | article | Griqua community | 29 Jun 2011 | – |
| B-0122372 | biography | Jan Smiesing | 1697-1734 | – |
| B-0008503 | biography | Charlotte Maxeke | 1874-1939 | ✓ |
| P-0121884 | place | Cape Agulhas, Western Cape | 19 Sep 2016 | ✓ |
| A-0064786 | article | Mapungubwe | 4 Apr 2011 | – |
| A-0062712 | article | The Linton Panel & the San language | 3 Apr 2011 | – |
| P-0065792 | place | Onze Molen, Durbanville | 14 Jul 2011 | ✓ |
| E-0011386 | event | Miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0059202 | place | Cape Town, Western Province | 30 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0065815 | place | Kronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay. | 14 Jul 2011 | ✓ |
| A-0099255 | article | The Empty Land Myth | 9 Apr 2015 | ✓ |
PlaceDock House, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront-Cape Town
… Tunnel on Portswood Ridge." The Dock House, built in the 1800’s as a private residence for the harbour master, this …
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… a theatre upon the site. This was opened on 17 November 1800 and by all accounts was considered by citizens of Cape … as Boeren Plijn. The Theatre was opened…
PlaceGanyesa
… black inhabitants (known as a native community ) in the 1800’s. Prior to this, the locals had been farmers and …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid fossils. Human Origins South…
PlaceFresnaye, Cape Town
Fresnaye is situated between Signal Hill and Sea Point, a few kilometer's to the West of Cape Town's Central Business District (CBD). Fresnaye was…
PlaceLimpopo Province
The Limpopo Province covers the Area that lies Northern most in South Africa, just South of Zimbabwe. It was first called the Northern Province, but this was…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born on 9 October 1876 in the Boshof district of the Orange Free State. His parents were Christians who belonged to the Setswana…
BiographyGraham Goddard
Graham Goddard was born in 1956 in Woodstock, Cape Town. His parents were factory workers in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
The indigenous inhabitants of Australia The continent of Australia was settled about 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement, most of the inhabitants of…
BiographyElsa Joubert
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of…
BiographyEvelina de Bruin
Evelina de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape. In the early days of her life, her parents…
BiographyZuleika Sarojini Christopher
Zuleika (Zulei) Sarojini Christopher, the eldest daughter of Advocate Albert Christopher and Ghadija Gool, was born in 1924 in Greenwood Park, Durban, where…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… [19] Author Unknown, “Pass laws in South Africa, 1800 – 1994”, South African History Online, (Uploaded: 21 … https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/pass-laws…
PlaceGreen Point
The area about Green Point was initially used by the Dutch as a cattle grazing station. After the British annexed the Cape in 1806, they began to hold horse…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the mid-1800’s. Its clock tower was added in 1883, and the entire …
ArticleNdebele
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
Griqua
Introduction The arrival of the Boers and the colonial masters to the area known as Griqualand West, denied the Griquas the opportunity of following their…
Griqua community
The Griqua people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, however their history had an important influence on the history and…
BiographyJan Smiesing
This article was written by Joline Young for SAHO The school Outside of the Slave Lodge, under a tree in Spin Street, enslaved people were auctioned for sale…
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…
PlaceCape Agulhas, Western Cape
… for 250km at a depth of only 60m, and then plunges to 1800 m, a depth it maintains all the way to the Antartic. It … for 250km at a depth of only 60m, and…
ArticleMapungubwe
The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province on the border between South Africa,…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
Very little is known about the languages of South Africa's San people, as most of these beautiful, ancient languages were never recorded. Fortunately, the /Xam…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
The mill was erected in 1840 and continued to function as such until after the turn of the 20th century when its mechanism and top portion were removed and the…
EventMiners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines
2,800 South African miners embark on a strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances. Located at Vanrhynsdorp, the mines were…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
"Cape Town has just been voted as the top city in the world by the prestigious Time Out publication. And I fully agree with this, having just returned from my…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… after the present gabled manor house was built around 1800. The story goes that the manor house and Kronendal farm …
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
The Empty or Vacant Land Theory is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to land. Today…