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PlaceLuthuli House Museum, KwaDukuza
… curatorial baggage of those museums instituted during the colonial and apartheid periods. This has allowed the Luthuli …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… 1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes … Khoi in their own music making and in the dances of the colonial centre, Cape…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… Immigration Registration Bill (TIRB) is addressed to Colonial Secretary and circulated for signatures September … and wishes to meet Gandhi. January 30,…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… is very aware of David’s ‘conventional patriarchal and colonial prerogative’ (Boehmer 344) towards women, as he … black. David himself views his daughter’s…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… Luxemburg and Gramsci with the insurgent claims of anti-colonial writers like Aimé Césaire, C. L. R. James and Frantz … most influential essay, ‘Problems in…
PlaceDutywa, Eastern Cape
The Town was founded in 1858 as a Military Fort after a dispute between a Natal Colony raiding party and local people. It is named after the Dutywa River, a…
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… The Mfengu (or Fingo in the colonial lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King …
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… of the economic and emotional security within the pre-colonial family' (Walker 1990:19). For African women in the …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… River Police forces. With unification on 31 May 1910, colonial and city forces were still serving the country, but …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… acts as a buffer between the Afrikaners and British colonial interests, and supplies seasonal farm workers to …
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… been asked for by Moshoeshoe, where they are broken up by colonial forces. 1828 The Kora, under leadership of Jan …
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… granted to the Voortrekker Solomon Maritz by the English Colonial Government. In 1849 Reverend Posselt established the …
Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
… and inheritance, enslaved Africans were passed between colonial planter families, resulting in close kinships among …
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… for the protection of the trading post. However, when the Colonial Office in London refused to ratify his actions, …
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… that the white population of SA in contradistinction of colonial countries like India and China, comprises an …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Glossary
… peak in the late nineteenth century. In South Africa, the colonial period began with the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in …
PlaceWalvis Bay, Namibia
Walvis Bay is a lively Port and Namibia’s second largest City, which is protected from wind and waves by the long arm of Pelican Point (SHOWN IN PICTURE). With…
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… runs adjacent from North and South!). There are several Colonial Buildings and a very dilapidated, Victorian Jail. … runs adjacent from North and South!)…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… a period from the 1870s to the mid-1970s; from early colonial intervention against togt (day) workers to the … for the earlier sections came from archives of…
PlaceCabo Verde
… could be considered as the starting point of Portugal's colonial Empire. The first settlement on Cape Verde was … the other Portuguese African colonies it…
Displacing Hierarchies: Nation and Universities in India and Africa by Amrita Pande, Faisal Garba and Ruchi Chaturvedi
… they were groomed to maintain. Fast-forward to the post-colonial moment. Universities were established across the … that has a long, unfortunate history in…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to The Progressive Professionals Forum on the occasion of their launch, 2 August 2013
… Cabral to sacrifice for the freedom of their people from colonial bondage. This is in line with the fact that struggle … You are doing what professionals…
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… South Africa, the last country in Africa to get rid of colonial shackles, attained democratic rule under the … from the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, the…
PlaceKakamas, Northern Cape
Kakamas is a rather small town situated in the Northern Cape of South Africa. This interesting town was originally built by a church and named after the Khoi…
PlaceFish River Canyon
… from local rock , in to a house for 'Schutztruppe' (German colonial forces) . I t was then converted into a Hotel in the … from local rock in 1896 to house …
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… In 1883, the farm with its buildings was acquired by the colonial government who, for a time, used it as a … In 1883 the farm with its buildings was acquired…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… the harsh life experienced by Black South Africans under colonial rule. Linda sold his rights of the song Mbube to …
PlacePeddie
… Mr WM Edge as its first Civil Commissioner. During the colonial era local agriculture was largely in the hands of …
42nd African National Congress Conference: Resolutions, 20 December, 1953
… this Act. 9. Conference confirms its solidarity with other colonial peoples in their struggle against imperialism, for …