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I will not Compromise About my Work: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa by Robin Scher ( ArtsNews.com), 2017
… a bucket of feces onto a statue of Cecil John Rhodes, a colonial expansionist who provided the original endowment of … was a learning environment that…
EventCongo administration is handed to the Belgian government
… policies toward the Congolese. Atrocities committed by colonial officials in the Congo were circulated in Europe, … be the most graphic account of the…
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… has subsequently been published; The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa by Robert Ross. This book provides a … is thus crucial in understanding the…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Bay, now Port Elizabeth, became a thorn in the side of the colonial authorities. Established for a group of about 600 … For them, Bethelsdorp was a refuge…
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… as growing resentment between the farmers and the British colonial authorities. The farmers argued that because the colonial government limited the…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… and descendants in order to hopefully develop a solution. Colonial expansion contributed to the development of … forced to serve the colonists (South Africa…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… profiles, so close to much of her work will be a vital pre-occupation too. A pre-occupation that has grown stronger with her realization …
PlaceElliot, Thembuland
… changed to Elliot, after Sir Henry Elliot , a prominent Colonial administrator and Chief Magistrate of Transkie , …
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
… Front. The merged Patriotic Front helped Mugabe defeat the colonial government of Ian Smith in 1980. Since then Mugabe …
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
… was considered to be a distinguished member of the British colonial army, and he was lauded at home for establishing the …
EventThe district of Uitenhage is founded in the Eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
… Uitenhage de Mist felt there was a need to improve the colonial administration of the Cape areas. The new district …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… The first conflicts between the European settlers and the colonial authorities in their mother countries broke out at … were to define the future of all…
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… visions of political and spiritual liberation from colonial forces, both formal and informal. The northern … The treaty, signed before the formal start of…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… cultural material from southern Africa, artefacts from the colonial period of the Cape, including maritime and … leather clothing worn by the San thousands…
Under the influence of Dumile Feni’s 'African Guernica' by Sharlene Khan (The Conversation), 07 September 2016
… neo-colonialisms. One assumes that Feni is commenting on colonial racism that by this time has become … institutionalised as apartheid in South Africa…
ArchiveThe international situation
… the 3rd-5th of January, 1962. This paper outlines the anti-colonial struggles of the oppressed around the world. The …
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… 29% 11% 4% Following is a brief review of the history of colonial conquest and land dispossession in South Africa, … R. (1993). Beyond the Pale: Essays on…
The oldest forms of human communication
… provides a taste of Africa's rich heritage, long before colonial times. South Africa's distant past may be learned …
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… movements in countries that were still under the grip of colonial occupation, white minority rule and apartheid took …
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… lives and culture. Born from the enforced conditions of pre-Democracy South Africa, Kewpie is a seminal chapter in …
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
… as growing resentment between the farmers and the British colonial authorities. The farmers argued that because the colonial government limited the…
EventMozambique gains independence
… After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique became independent as People's …
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… place in the field, at a date fixed now, simultaneously in pre-selected areas armed and trained guerrilla bands who will … will be ours the plan envisages a…
EventThe longest state of emergency in Kenya ends
… EvelynBaring, due to the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule and incarceration of thousands of Kenyans. This …
EventGhana is declared a republic
… Ghana became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence on 6 March 1957. On …
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… is obvious that the more acute grows the struggle of the colonial people in both Africa and Asia, Imperialism too will … cannot possibly be withdrawn anymore…
PlaceCiskei
… that was applied to administer the area under British Colonial Rule . The Bunga, which was an advisory council, … the traditional inkundla (local assemblies)…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… study will also increase our understanding of Islam in Colonial South Africa. While South Africa’s Muslims are … His son Ismail, born in Durban in 1876, was…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… sufferings of the non-European people under former German colonial Government, and in view of racial theories … the rule of the present exploiters and…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army'
… Cetshwayo's ruled the Zulu nation at a time when British colonial penetration of the South African hinterland was gaining momentum. Successive British…