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Durban an Overview
… under British control. At this point many of the Dutch settlers chose to leave the province, resettling in the OFS …
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… together with animal bones and stone tools. The Dutch settlers referred to the Khoikhoi as Hottentots, because of …
BiographyLeigh Davids
… to describe her identity around 2010, when she was in her early 30s when she encountered the terminology. Upon …
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
… Transvaal. Hard work was introduced to the young Mthembu early on as, from the tender age of just seven years old, he …
BiographyOprah Winfrey
… has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son was born …
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…
EventBattle of Vaalkrans begins
… crush these aspirations were however quite difficult. The settlers were determined, were quite able to survive in the African climate and were well armed…
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…
PlaceLutheran Church, New Germany
… was the man originally responsible for bringing German settlers to the area. The emigrants left Bremen on 10 … the babies born on the voyage. This he did,…
PlaceFort Frederick, Port Elizabeth
… outskirts of Port Elizabeth. By the arrival of the 1820 settlers, no retributive shot had been fired from Fort … Captain Evatt is known to have overseen the…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… These tell the story of the first British Colonial Settlers to arrive on the shores of Algoa Bay. "The Donkin … Africa and sent to Algoa Bay to supervise the…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… struggles going back to the 16th century. Records from as early as 1510 the year that the greatest Portuguese military … prison. After bad behaviour on the…
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… owes its origin and development to the arrival of British settlers in 1820. Sir Rufane Donkin was the Acting Governor … in South Africa. Shortly after the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… breakaway and establishes The Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association (CBISA). The Colonial Born and Settlers' Indian Association (CBSIA) holds its…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
… courage at Ingogo and in the storming of Majuba in early 1881. After the war and the restoration of Transvaal …
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
… His grandmother was divorced from his grandfather very early on. His grandfather, an authoritarian businessman, …
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… Transvaal. Kathrada’s political work began in 1941, at the early age of 12 when he joined the Young Communist League of …
PlaceNtabankulu Municipality
… and skirmishes between the Khoisan , Xhosa , and European settlers . Its history is intertwined with the broader … out in 1909, though a General Store…
EventSlavery abolished in 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…
PlaceCuylerville
… Low, one of Bailie's servants, did not land with the other settlers but remained on the ship as a sailor. Another … made his camp while supervising the…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… law can be seen with the 1652 arrival of colonial settlers and their administrations, during the era of … tolerated and provisionally acknowledged by…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… National Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP) in the early 1990s, Moodley did not agree with what she felt was the …
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
… Early Life and Teaching Career Matsie Angelina Motshekga …
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… This museum is also known as the Natal Settlers Museum. The property originally extended from the … of the elite class lifestyle introduced by the Victorian…
PlaceBrandfort, Free State
… Province , named "Keerom" (which means "Turn around"). Settlers occupied the Area in the 1830's and the Town was … Africa, the first concentration camps were…
Place'Amstel River', Now Known as Liesbeek River
… along the River in 1657, shortly after the first Dutch Settlers arrived in the Cape. This was the first River that …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… Bay. 1717 The VOC decides that future grants of land to settlers at the Cape should no longer be done on a freehold … Khoi-Khoi are killed by gunshot in this…
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… In 1820, efforts were made to settle four groups of Irish settlers, along the Jan Dissels River, This was met with … mayor was Charles Fryer, an Irish…