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PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… Early Dutch Settlers soon realised that Hout Bay could serve as an …
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… especially with religious and cultural bodies. In the early 1920's PR joined the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) . In … is a school named after him in Merebank…
PlaceOld Drostdy Museum, Rawson Street, Pearston
… Particularly noteworthy is a collection of late 18th and early 19th century Cape furniture. The Drostdy Museum was … Self-sufficiency was necessary to…
BiographyMary Moodley
… of slavery that her mother’s family endured. During the early 1920s, her father attained employment at the Modderbee …
BiographyJohn Collins
… He began an ongoing relationship with ES Reddy in the early 1960s, providing the UN’s Special Committee Against …
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… the rest of the women took special care of her. During the early fifties, Hilda Bernstein , a dynamic member of the …
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… His parents Benjamin and Elsie were both teachers. From an early age, they inculcated in Mzala a love for books and a …
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… in Ladybrand, Ramakaba migrated to Cape Town, in the early 1920s, where he found employment as a labourer at a …
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… Katanga's secession was supported by most White settlers in the province who would benefit the most from … and the hundreds of mercenaries his regime had…
BiographyAnthony Richard Stubbs
… and elder and my dear priest" while rebuffing the rebuke. Early in his stay in South Africa Stubbs was not above racial …
BiographyJohannes Nkosi
… details of his father could be traced). Nkosi spent his early years on the farm of Pixley Seme near Standerton and …
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… Cato Ridge. At the height of violence in Natal during the early 1990s, Ndlovu led the formation and co-ordination of …
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
… She joined the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1940s and became a member of the African National …
BiographyLloyd Spencer
… translation of Benjamin’s Central Park fragments and his early essay on Experience were published and Spencer has …
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… Britain had fought the Boer settlers in South Africa in the Anglo-Boer wars (1880-1, … British authority. This was not fully suppressed until early 1915 and…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… Although WCG did not involve itself in politics during its early years, Mayat did in her personal capacity. She worked … of all races and paid them equally…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Iron Age Shell middens containing early Iron Age pottery fragments have been found at Umhlanga … which led to his reputation as a mighty warrior. In the…
The National Arts Festival
… In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the … board of directors. It operates out of the 1820…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… he travelled so extensively that from 1945 until the early 1970s he was probably the most well-known Afrikaans … and investigates Krige’s youth and war…
BiographyCecyl Esau
… the struggles of their people since the day the white settlers arrived at the southernmost point of Africa. [7] …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… the same period through its sabotage campaign. In the early part of 1963 Robert Watson, a student at UCT who had … British anti-guerrilla campaigns, and…
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… Trek, there were other equally compelling reasons for the settlers to leave the Cape Colony. Further reading list: A … list of Indian Indentured Labourers…
BiographyMogoeng Thomas Mogoeng
… North West Province. He was raised and spent most of his early life there. Justice Mogoeng is the eldest son of three …
BiographyNontetha Nkwenkwe
… the traumas of rapid change. Spirit possession cults in early twentieth century South East Africa, for instance, …
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… growing, and government planned to forcibly remove the settlers. The government introduced what became known as the …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… meeting with Fynn and Farewell, Shaka granted the English settlers an area about Port Natal of about 6500 km² in … alight and was lost at sea with all lives…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… to colonise large parts of the world. The focus is on the early processes of colonisation and the consequences on the … on the islands of São Tomé and…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… degradation and changes in the global climate. Settlers from southeast Asia and later, from the east African … Limpopo River . Large towns of thousands of…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… period for colonial rulers. The climate before WW2 By the early 1900s European countries had succeeded in establishing … that land was taken away from…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… demographic transformation in southern Africa during the early nineteenth century. The Nguni word mfecane translates … demographic transformation in southern…