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PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country has a 25-mile (40-km) coastline on the Atlantic Ocean but is … to 1997 the country was officially the…
SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006
… highest number in the world. Mr Zuma - previously seen as a possible future president - retains considerable popularity. His supporters see the charge as a…
ArchiveZuma rape case judge stands down (BBC News),13 February 2006
… Bernard Ngoepe might be biased as he issued warrants for a search of Mr Zuma's offices in a corruption case last year. It is alleged that Mr Zuma raped … 30s…
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… Smuts immediately set about putting the Defence Force on a war footing. The question of whether to join the war was … Black, Indian and Coloured volunteers…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… and brutal violence, assessments of the war rarely include a detailed historical account of the security and military … regular and standing armies were…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… catalogue: “Here Comes Everybody”. To this extent 63 national pavilions, and 20 South African exhibitions, were … organised under the primary curatorship of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… p 7. 2. Seedat, Hassim, 'The First Recorded Settler was a Poitical Prisoner' in Post Natal, Durban, July 14-18, 1982. … Rule to 1838, Cape Town, University…
PlaceGriqualand West
… The Khoikhoi was a nation of widely scattered migrant pastoralist clans, whose … not conducive to the creation of permanent Settlements. As a result they…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… Introduction Fanakalo is a bridging language of communication in multilingual and … several factors about Fanakalo are examined: Fanakalo as a pidgin…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… of Communism Act, Act No 44 of 1950 The Act was passed as a result of the National Party government's fear of the … any person he viewed to be pursuing…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… to work through. In this case, it was discrimination and a lack of acceptable working conditions. Through the … was still far from accepting female…
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… of Dutch settlement in India and South Africa constitutes a serious lacuna in Indian historical research. Indians were taken into slavery in South Africa…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… and Thembu people. [i] Zulu Stick fight Origins There is a great debate about the origins of this indigenous sport … agreed that during Shaka’s reign this…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of … artist Giuseppe Cattaneo and Polly Street…
PlaceMadagascar
… Mozambique, Réunion, and South Africa. Madagascar has a population of more than 22 million inhabitants. Capital and … km long, it varies in width from 400 to…
PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… 1838 the Cape Governor, Sir George Napier, presided over a public meeting at which a committee was elected to raise funds for a permanent … was sold with a…
PlaceCape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
… Cape Point is a promontory at the South East corner of the Cape Peninsula , which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs North-South for … most…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… Jacob Zuma of rape‚ Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo‚ was from a family of political exiles whose life was spread across … Britain‚ the Netherlands and South Africa…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… civilisation stretches back to least 2000 BC. It became a single empire in 221 BC. [1] China was ruled by a series of dynasties until 1911 and from 1368 to…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Davenport, Rodney and Christopher Saunders. South Africa – a Modern History . Macmillan, 2000. Daniel, J. A. Habib and R Southall (eds) State of the Nation:…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… ascended to the South African presidency on 9 May 2009 on a wave of popular euphoria fuelled by voters and fellow party politicians alike. A controversial…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… and as 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came as a result of a triangular pact among three governments; and the latter, … 62. Congress defends its…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… has been Namibia’s only official language. This was a controversial policy and remains contested. This timeline … of South West Africa from Germany, it…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… A few months after the first formal ANC-SACP meeting in … to the post-1953 underground years as well as the 1961- 63 military campaigns. The racial…
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… gender bias in her community, Emecheta was kept at home as a child while her younger brother went to school. Although … by her grandmother. These stories…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… ANC led government was faced with the task of dealing with a legacy of centuries of land dispossession. A ‘willing buyer willing seller’ policy was adopted…
PlaceFort Cox
… Fort Cox was a "post of occupation" established by the British military in … in honour of Major William Cox of the 75th Regiment and a former Officer…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the … various groups in the four former…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… Annually Statistics South Africa (Statssa) publishes a very comprehensive Report on Mortality and Causes of Death … that all deaths and their causes should…
ArchiveBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
… among her mother’s people meaning “the one who arrives on a rainy day.” (Kuzwayo 1985, 55). Ellen Kuzwayo was raised by … and fertile. She was one of 4…