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EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… of Eqypt. In June 1798 Napoleon's army departed France to conquer Egypt, then a province of the Ottoman Empire. … and facing an Anglo-Turkish alliance,…
BiographyDoman
… In about 1657 Doman, a Goring-haiqua Khoisan, was sent to Batavia to learn to become an interpreter. But having witnessed first hand the …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… was in favour of the Wragg Commission being appointed to investigate Indian immigration laws, yet six years later … the transportation of Indian immigrants,…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… her at home. “I saw my neighbour's children were all going to school. I was a little child and I said, No, I have to go to school now. I was eight or nine…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… as this timeline is a work in progress that will be added to over time. Please click on the contribute icon on this page if you would like to add an event…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… the Novel January 2015 Abstract This essay sets out to explore and analyse the socio-political events that take … and sexual kind, as well as motifs of…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… community and our friends abroad, Comrades, I should like to be as brief in what I have to say as is my visit to … next year? In a way, it is a great…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
… community and our friends abroad, Comrades, I should like to be as brief in what I have to say as is my visit to … next year? In a way, it is a great…
BiographyMadi Gray
… in Cape Town , where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa during the…
BiographySydney Brenner
… Sydney Brenner was born in Germiston, close to Johannesburg, to Jewish parents on 13 January 1927. His father was a shoe repairman who had moved to South…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… Prior to Biko's inquest, magistrates had declined to examine the interrogation methods used, and had attributed … damage. He was then driven, naked and…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to describe a distant and mystical place, the city of … will be highlighted by concentrating on his…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
… the family was poor, the parents made great sacrifices to ensure that money was put aside so that the children could … Movement as much as possible. All this…
BiographyJan van Riebeeck
… was born on 21 April 1619 in Culemborg, Netherlands to a surgeon. He spent his youth in Schiedam, Netherlands … (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie - also…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
… Ndlambe, who had ignored the attempts of several governors to make the Fish River their temporary boundary line. He … like this: "The cold, calculating, wily…
BiographyBhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku
… saxophonist, guitarist, composer and arranger, he was born to a musician father who did not want any of his children to follow a music career. His father…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day celebrations, Bisho Stadium, Eastern Cape, 27 April 2007
… parts of the country on this historic day, 27 April 2007, to hold aloft the banner of freedom that we so fondly cherish … a common identity as South Africans…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… When I returned to London after six weeks Esmé was not very pleased with me … green and crispy to the bite. The very thought took me back to my childhood and…
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
… worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been admitted to the Bar in 1924. He was involved in the Springbok Legion a … he was not in the army. Since…
BiographyAndries Hendrik Potgieter
… like many other Dutch farmers at the Cape, he decided to leave the colony in 1834. In 1835 a group of Voortrekkers … delayed by the Sixth Frontier War…
BiographyJohn Collins
… He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master builder and his wife, Hannah Priscilla Edwards. He went to Cranbrook School…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate society from oppression. He gave his life so that … beliefs and action touched many…
Rocky Malebane-Metsing
… if one was absent from work. If an employee is deemed to have absconded, the mines would have the employee arrested. Workers were not allowed to leave the…
BiographyBilly Modise
… He received an Anglican scholarship which enabled him to enrol for his secondary school in Modeerport. The racial … store and later for a medical doctor…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE FUNERAL OF JOE SLOVO Johannesburg, 15 January 1995
… Dear comrades; Fellow South Africans; We are assembled to mourn the passing of a leader, a patriot, a father, a … the history of our country; When future…
BiographyRick Turner
… labour movement and one of the first in the White-left to appreciate the significance of the Black Consciousness … who had settled in South Africa. Paddy had…
BiographyPhaswane Mpe
… , Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African Literature at the University of the … cheaper inner city area of Hillbrow, which was…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein to study law. It was here that his political career began. … Association). At the age of twenty he…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… of racially discriminatory laws or practices the right to restitution of that property or to fair compensation. The Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 … and…
BiographyCassim Saloojee
… Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo’s father’s store. After he was married, Saloojee’s father moved with him and…