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ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… now took a more serious turn. The US, the Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany and Belgium all recalled their …
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… agents of the apartheid government, limited resources, the great distance from home, amongst many other problems. The …
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… In the past 50 years these people's lives have changed a great deal under the pressure of modern and foreign ways of …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… short lived. The jumbo jet and economy air travel made the great steamship and others like it obsolete. Union Castle … had helped connected Europe and…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of Great Britain. It would appear that President FD Roosevelt … this is only a beginning of a long…
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which … was gaining strength. Talks between the two…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… get more Labour Battalions for this purpose. Labour is our great difficulty and it is an increasing one, owing to the … theatre of battle, but also served as…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… Bechuanaland. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol XVI: 76-92. London. … South Africa. Journal of the Anthropological…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… The arrival of White settlers in the area, due to the Great Trek , was initially useful to Moshoeshoe, as the … of Thaba Bosiu. The Free State forces had…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… in the ruins of the cities of Thulamela, Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. All three these kingdoms were active gold … in Southern Africa, but their way of life…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… unity of the socialist community of nations. He attached great importance to the role of the democratic, peace-loving … of your unfinished task. In solemn…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Celebration the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2005
… Workers responsible for the construction of this great monument; Distinguished guests, Fellow South Africans: … wishes of our government to all our people…
EventMoroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni
… independent. Following this war, the French extended great influence and by 1912, part of Morocco became a French … by the locals. His exile to Madagascar in…
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… unemployed in the United States In South Africa, the Great Depression had socio-economic as well as political … of farming production. The political…
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… Guerre left the Cape to venture north in search for the "great river that flowed east to west" and to "investigate … progressed to within eight to ten days…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… of the Zambezi, and discovered Lake Nyasa, one of his many great discoveries of the African interior. Today it may seem … and the people who lived there…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… Iron Age societies were highly fluid, flexible and had a great capacity for change. People could move, shift and …
Mandela: Message to India
… and human dignity. Forty-seven years after your great achievement we too have overthrown the yoke of racial …
Learning about local history through pictures
… Investigating Adderley Street: PICTURES Pictures are a great source to use to learn about history. Did you know that …
ArticleThe Transkei
… most of them from the Wesleyan Church, exercised great influence over the principal Chiefs. Chiefs’ sons, the …
The Cape Northern Frontier
… peoples, with Xhosa forces for the territory east of the Great Fish River. This stopped the expansion of colonisers up …
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… Prime Minister. His speeches and military strategy were a great encouragement to the British. Churchill was said to … South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts,…
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
… winter weather conditions. One notable storm called ‘‘The Great Gale of 1865’’, saw more than 10 shipwrecks off of Cape …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… of Africa will be free by the end of next year. This is a great victory for the anti-imperialist forces throughout the … he insisted on efficiency in all his…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… colonial boundary of the Cape to the western bank of the Great Kei River, and although the subsequent peace treaty … boundary of the Cape was again pushed…
PlaceDurbanville
… the daily school run. This is a neighbourhood filled with great experiences for everyone to enjoy. Exploring the wine … are so many farms to choose from and…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… might feel that the camera, mechanically, has done the great majority of the work. This would be both an error and praise for a man who has, with great…
PlaceFalse Bay
… and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg , you will have a great view of the Coasts of False Bay (Afrikaans: Valsbaai) … first circumnavigation of Africa, whose…
EventSouth Africa abandons the Gold Standard, sparking a period of economic expansion
… As the Great Depression set in, many countries (including Great Britain) abandoned their gold standard and devaluated …
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… When Dr. Dadoo rose to speak on Sunday at the great solidarity meeting in his honour held in Johannesburg, … greater becomes the resentment of the oppressed…