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EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… In 1900, C James, an official of the British colonial administration, went on a voyage to South Africa to …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… the Lancaster agreements in which Britain, as the former colonial power, agreed to pay for the reacquisition of land …
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… tradition maintains that he drank mainly at meetings with colonial officials, who deliberately plied him with alcohol …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… held the belief that the true plotters were land-hungry colonial authorities. …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… contained in Proclamations 400 and 413 were issued under pre-union statutes (Dugard 1978: 110). Proclamation 400 was … 1977 Act 87 of 1979Designated Areas…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… South African Indian Community with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. May, Pixley ka … contradicted by a tolerance and even…
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
… and importance of indigenous African languages in post-colonial modern societies has proved to be a contentious … at home and in school. Decades after…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… there are also many concrete structures in the Portuguese colonial style. Many people still live in barrack-like accommodations on the plantations. Decades…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… these Regions it did not spread until, on the back of the Colonial expansion of Europe overseas, fledgling Jewish … and British Empires. In the case of the…
Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… Institutions of learning became centre to challenge colonial domination and injustice, for this, the thorny gown … in a different setting. Our countries are…
PlaceUmlazi
… to the Native tribes of Natal, appointed by the British colonial authorities, orchestrated a system in his … area of Umlazi was evacuated in an attempt to…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
Christopher Daluxolo Mpofu (popularly known as Dali Mpofu) is a South African advocate, legal expert, and former African National Congress (ANC) stalwart…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: ANC Statement on Policy Conference state of readiness, 25 June 2012
… together with strategy and tactics. The second day will be pre-occupied by the commissions discussing all the 12 policy …
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… was sold to Christina van Canarij, one of the three pre-eminent and successful slave women, freed by Simon van …
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… tours of the townships offer an alternative to the glossy pre-packaged “bus window” view of South Africa. Tour …
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
… Memorial Museum (IMM) is dedicated to the country's anti-colonial and independence struggle. The museum functions as … of material and memorabilia related to…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… humiliating requests for aid to the West's former colonial powers’. The Economist reports on interventions led …
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… had increased to such an extent that that the Natal Colonial Secretary was forced to set up a special Indian …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… them into less fertile areas of the region. Soon the colonial project was well underway. With the systematic …
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… History Society (EANHS)]. The group consisted mainly of colonial settlers and naturalists who needed a place to keep … Serena Hotel stands. It was not until…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… of Afrikaner nationalism and a desire to return to the pre-Anglo-Boer War days of the independent Boer republics. In …
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… each year from an archive of San narratives recorded by colonial linguists Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek in the 1870s. …
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… people everywhere in the world. And having fought colonial domination in Algeria, they know what is involved in …
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… and old farmhouses that smack of the luxuries of a bygone colonial era. During the harvest (April to September), …
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… old coastal town. It is home to the City Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the mid-1800’s. Its clock …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… for the trek was the general dissatisfaction with British colonial rule in the Cape Colony. The language (Afrikaans), …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Hendrik Prinsloo planned an uprising against the British colonial government as they believed that the British favored …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… of Samuel Maharero started a rebellion against German colonial rule. With good knowledge of the terrain and …
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… For the next decade Rhodesia was subjected to anti colonial struggles led by Zimbabwe African National Union …
PlaceGarden Route, Cape Town
… generating an average of R3.9 billion in earnings annually pre-COVID. Tourism contributes significantly to Plett’s … generating an average of R3.9 billion in…