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Griqua
… quickly crossed the Orange River and defeated the settlers at Zwartkoppies. Maitland, who was Governor at the … Government, faced with the objections of both…
Griqua community
… quickly crossed the Orange River and defeated the settlers at Zwartkoppies. Maitland, who was Governor at the … Government, faced with the objections of both…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… (SACP), operating underground, Ponnen was involved again. Early trade union activities In 1928, the Garment Workers … to exist after the Congress and the …
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… 5.9% Toponyms 0.3% Unknown 9.25% Facetious Names The settlers’ facetious spirit found its fullest expression in … own name. Old Testament Names It was also a…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… Church to commemorate the arrival of French Huguenot settlers in 1688. Its foundation stone was laid on 24 August … a move to Mowbray, too the Old Bloemendal…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… of the first trading post in Port Natal in 1824, but the early English traders and hunters found themselves unable to … but not yet granted, as a…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young African men of his … in a society already defined by racial segregation…
PlaceWakkerstroom
… the San people , around 1500 the Area saw its first white settlers in 1853, with the Town being officially established … . This name reflects both the…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… by hunting and gathering. DID YOU KNOW! The European settlers had many names for the hunter gatherers: Bosjesman, … most challenging environments, and to…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… New York: Fleming H Revell Co DOWER, William. 1902. The Early Annals of Kokstad and Griqualand East. Port Elizabeth: … in the Southern African Region During…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. 4 February, The Second Round-table … S.L. Singh and P.R. Pather form the Colonial…
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… was erected to commemorate the landing of the 1820 Settlers and is situated at the entrance to the railway … and docks in Strand Street, the spot where it is…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
… he worked as a waiter and manual labourer.Mabhida’s two early political motivators were his father, a dedicated …
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
… among whites of the National Party (NP), under Graaff's early leadership many UP parliamentary speeches - especially …
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… Hutchinson and Dennis Brutus . He had to leave school early to look for a job as his brother, Indres Naidoo, was …
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… of the African National Congress (ANC). This coupled with early experiences of interacting with people of all races, …
PlaceUmlazi
… of Umlazi (or Mlazi) dates back to 1845 when British settlers forcibly occupied what was then Natal (now KwaZulu … to six locations. According to research,…
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
… referred to as “Dullies.” Established in 1883 by Dutch settlers, it boasts the highest railway station in South … ocean at the seaside. The smell of ‘moer’…
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… life of anti-apartheids activist took off. Europe in the early sixties was just starting to wake up to what apartheid …
BiographyPeter Clarke
… wanted to go to school. I fell in love with freedom early in my life and when I saw what looked to me like …
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… whose husband Dr. Vallabh Jaga, was very involved in the early days with the Transvaal Indian Congress . Dr. Vallabh …
BiographyChris Ledochowski
… unions in the Western Cape which continued into the early nineties. Meanwhile, Ledochowski continued his …
EventThe last quagga in the world dies in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
… the quagga was brought upon by aggressive hunting by the settlers. The quagga could not be tamed and the settlers began to view them as pests. They were…
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… 'Uitkijk' which belonged to Barend Jacobus Pienaar . The early settlers on the Farm were always on the lookout for wild … farm Uitkijk which belonged to…
PlaceGriqualand West
… later known as the Orange and Vaal rivers. Up to the early 1800's this area had only been penetrated by the … Government , faced with the objections of both…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… African farmers moved South around the same time as the early settlers from Europe moved North and East. Recent research … and East Africa. Iron tools were…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… they could not be pressed into service for the Dutch settlers. The settlers practiced a form of settled … and dispossession of the indigenous Khoisan…
PlaceValley of a Thousand Hills
… killing those who would not bow to his authority. In the early 1800s, English settlers arrived in Durban , which was then known as Port … was the first…
PlaceKwaNojoli, formerly Somerset East
… who are interested in history, the town owes much of its early years to the British military and settlers as well as the Afrikaners who were farming the area…
EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… after the war is over would become targets of the original settlers or the Boers. Nevertheless, the British settlers continued to live in South Africa after…