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ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Source-Based Questions and Answers
… much land was owned by Africans in comparison with white settlers. Using your own knowledge and the source explain the … in South Africa, while the remaining…
Vella Pillay
… of Commerce degree and attending lectures and classes in early morning and evening sessions. To finance my studies, as … became in time the movementís…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… Land Theory is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their … of the Kaffir Races (1866), W. C…
BiographyAli Bacher
… an English team captained by Mike Gatting, took place in early 1990 against a background of political turmoil as black …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… of the Reebok Human Rights Awards in December 1988. In the early 1990s Janet Cherry worked for human rights and …
BiographyRuth First
… , a book, which remains the most incisive history of early Namibia . During this time she also helped to organise …
BiographyAlex la Guma
… and colonial question (Mkhize, 134). Alex la Guma’s early exposure to class politics and the national liberation …
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… journey to East Asia. The VOC brought soldiers, slaves and settlers to the Cape from the Netherlands and the East and … of the VOC and on van Riebeeck’s…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… people immigrate to the Cape Colony. The first groups of settlers arrived in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the … on 17 March 1820. These became known…
PlaceAdelaide, Eastern Cape
… In the late 18th and 19th Century the Xhosa and White Settlers arrived. The Bushmen were displaced and no longer … the wife of King William IV. Despite the…
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… to the Sierra Leone Company for the "free community of settlers, their heirs and successors." A few years later the settlers were also joined by settlers of…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… they felt doing so would advance their own interests. Early History of the Eastern Cape During the early years before Dutch occupation of the region, the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… had traded with one another for many centuries. From as early as 100 AD there is evidence of coastal trade with Arabs … of the Pedi in fending off Zulu and…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… for these surpluses, had occurred periodically since the early eighteenth century. The inevitable result of these … of the KWV were in large measure…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… border to help get Joe out of the country in the early 1960s. Reggie Vandeyar approached Shirish in December … They would spend a great deal of time and…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… history of segregation within the province. Settlement and early Xhosa life in the Eastern Cape Although they speak a … Nine Frontier Wars followed between…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… is organised mainly by leaders of the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA). July 29, Recruitment of … the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and…
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… established by the British Government for the 1820 British Settlers. Lord Somerset had a distinct sense of … in Cape Town. He mediated between Xhosa chiefs…
PlaceSterkfontein Caves, Krugersdorp (within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site)
… that Sterkfontein and neighbouring caves had been used by early human beings. Similar deposits were found thereafter on … This led to a period of boom for…
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
… poverty and crushing boredom experienced by Kolisi in his early days as a young boy, there were other societal issues …
Indian Community
… Chamber of Commerce noted a growing fear from White settlers and their demand for all Indian traders to be … lines caused great unhappiness amongst the…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… frontier, an Area of fierce conflict between White settlers moving Northwards and African pastoralists and … magazine, built by the military before the…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the 1960s and early 1970s, came to an alternative view about racism and … one out in the Afrikaner society during…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… the remaining 93% of the land were allocated to white settlers. [3] The impact of this new law was far-reaching … were also not allowed to rent land…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… for their presence and their occupation of the land. The settlers, calling themselves the "Pioneer Column", proceeded … a developed society. This society was…
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
… consistency.” But Meyer did not stay for long. During the early frontier wars of the 1790s, he abandoned his farm and … in Britain and the Cape Colony…
PlaceClumber, Eastern Cape
… in 1820 to Dr Thomas Carlton, leader of a party of settlers from Nottinghamshire. In October 1893 its name was … On this site same the Nottingham party of…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
… best to 1:58.16 at the Notturna di Milano meeting in early September, but was forced to skip the Common Wealth … premier South African atheltes has been…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… declaration of a State of Emergency throughout the early 1980s meant that the UDF was virtually banned in 1988 …
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… play an active role in the ANC's Defiance Campaign in the early 1950s, as the organisation in Natal had not been …