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ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… their children about what happened, and so it was passed on from one generation to the next. In this way history was … peered over the shoulder of the…
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… On 31 March 2017, President Jacob Zuma exercised his … R144-billion in the 2016/17 fiscal year. [4] The grounds on which the president made his decision to…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… and Makapansgat in the mountains to the southwest. Click on image to enlarge A tall bare dome of granite dominates the … of at least four different time…
The South African Human Rights Commission
… by other national legislation. Since its inauguration on 2 October 1995, the Commission has taken up the challenge … awareness of human rights issues 4…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… is of significance regarding the effect it had on historical events. At the time of their rule, colonial … and making labourers out of the people. As such,…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… This year, she convenes the first International Conference on Health and Apartheid held by the World Health … Organisation. 1981 Tshabalala-Msimang conducts…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… ‘Izwe lethu I Africa’ (Africa our land) were lined on the walls of the hall. An estimated 400 delegates from … and sustained protest campaign against pass…
Bambatha Rebellion 1906 bibliography
… by J. L. Dube in Ilanga Lase Natal, with special focus on Dube's attitude to Dinizulu as indicated in his reportage on the treason trial of Dinizulu ,…
ArticleSouth African History Online and the University of York Collaborative Project
… with South African History Online (SAHO). Students on the course ‘“Race”, nationhood and the literary imaginary … Jeeva Rajgopaul. Those taking Professor…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo ja Toivo. The party was … against the South African government’s…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… Africa during the period 1800 - 1925, including a piece on the role of missionaries, a list of mission stations, and … SAHO has procured the rights to…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… one another’), is marked by the event of 11 February 1966. On this day the district was declared a White area under the … residents were moved to Uitvlugt …
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… might be represented to consider our national problems on an all-inclusive basis’ to ‘draw up a Freedom Charter for … was endorsed by the ANC’s annual…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… the Xhosa, Khoikhoi and San people focused primarily on hunting, agriculture and stock farming. In the 1700s, the … broke out. Each group felt that the other…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, … pyramid scheme out of their home in…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… the MK in the Western Cape. Hani and Sibeko are arrested on their way to Nyanga East to distribute leaflets against … and then to Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC) office bearers
… On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) … in progress, any omissions are unintentional. Please click on the contribute icon on this page if you…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… foreign and minority rule, and focused TANU’s attention on this issue as a major element of his government’s foreign … was Nyerere’s model of African…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… foreign and minority rule, and focused TANU’s attention on this issue as a major element of his government’s foreign … was Nyerere’s model of African…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… Meer and Dr. Goonam were the first women to be elected on to the Executive of the Natal Indian Congress. Founded the Durban and District Women's League…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… 1971), was Black Community Programmes (BCP), which focused on community projects. The South Africa Council of Churches … Africa established a research…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… appoints the executive. The right to vote is based on property qualification. 1859 After protracted negotiations … batch of 342 indentured Indian labourers…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… English, known as tsotsitaal. Initially, they relied more on their wits than on violence to manipulate the white system. As conditions in … had "respectable"…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… the vicinity of Moshoeshoe's kingdom. As they were mounted on horseback and armed with guns, the Basotho retreated. This … and the Orange River through…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… the Aryans had the most "pure blood" of all the people on earth. The ideal Aryan had pale skin, blond hair and blue … answers to all their problems. The Nazi…
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
… 1906 Seme presents his speech at Columbia University on “The Regeneration of Africa” which wins him the … for a law degree. 1909 Seme follows deliberations…
ArticleSouth African Institute of Race Relations
… 1929 as an organization geared towards conducting research on race relations. From 1933 the SAIRR wrote and published … analysts, economists and sociologists…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… with the backdrop of Table Mountain.As a child I played on the famous seven steps because I lived in that street. … one at the bottom leading into Hanover…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… but government appointed, district councils modelled on the lines of the Glen Grey Act of 1894. The 1936 … the Higher Teachers' Training Course at Adams…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… residential occupation of the land they found themselves on while working in that particular urban centre. It can … to paying of taxes; the so-called hut tax…