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ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… than Mussolini's. In 1923 he attempted a 'coup d'etat' or 'putsch' that failed. He was imprisoned for five years, … spent money on constructing public works …
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… West Africa who were taken by slave-traders to America or elsewhere. These slaves were tied, chained or even yoked to wooden poles and taken against their…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… their will. This may not always involve physical threat or force, but sometimes coercion or other tactics against which the evictees are not in a … their…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 4: Medicine through time
… Isangomas and inyangas are the two main types of indigenous or traditional healers in South Africa. Isangomas Isangomas … also become sick because they are…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… looks at how the sport has evolved over time. The word or term Nguni is the collective name for ethnic groups of … (headmen of young men also referred to as…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… is farming? Farming is the practice of breeding animals or growing crops for food or clothes. Human ancestors stopped relying on hunting and … African…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… is to keep family life going in pondokkies and shanties, or in overcrowded one-room apartments. We know the bitterness … of boys and girls growing up without…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… Northeast of about 12 000 discontented Afrikaner farmers, or Boers. These people were determined to live independently … Shaka set out on a massive…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… markets of Batavia, Chinsura, Cochin, Boina, Delagoa Bay or Mozambique before being sent to the Cape, often … of slaves working on a farm with a common…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… on the customary law of a relatively small region, or by identifying commonalities belonging to a certain type … law, the British maintained Roman-Dutch law…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… impressive (Walker 1991:195). Neither the prime minister or any of his senior staff was there to see the women, so as … No further attempts were made to…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… Peace, Literature, Physics, Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine. In 1968 the Bank of Sweden added the award for … available for the awards of Physics,…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… in the crisis Use the page navigation on the right or bottom of the page Please note, there may be minor changes … icon on the right if you have anything to…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… required fee. Post houses became post offices where mail or checks could be dispatched and collected. Postal services … 1991. Since 1993, mail was no longer…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… life. [iv] Conceptualisation What is a ‘Chief’? A chief or traditional leader is defined as an individual who, by virtue of his or her ancestry, occupies a…
Khoisan Identity
… the use of the term ‘Khoikhoi’ meaning ‘men of men’ or ‘people’ actually came to prominence in opposition to the … the use of ‘Khoi and San’ as opposed to …
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… namely as indentured workers in 1860 and later as 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came as a result of a … to depart for South Africa by placing…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… are now on the other side of the bench, serving as judges or advisers in our new democracy. I did not know Arthur … of potential spies and saboteurs in time…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… around her, whether as a nurse, freedom fighter, mother or wife. Her caring nature was nurtured from an early age … Walter , was always filled with people,…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… to make them work, either to grow crops for the troops or to dig trenches, be wagon drivers or work as miners once the gold mines became partly … They did…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… levels. Most were assigned to the roles of wagon drivers or servants. Blacks were also used to stand in on farms of … used as "agterryers" who would tend to…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… the apartheid regime. By identifying “inarticulacy”, or an inability to speak, as a common social disability for … for these characters, whether they are…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… the apartheid regime. By identifying “inarticulacy”, or an inability to speak, as a common social disability for … for these characters, whether they are…
ArticleEarly civilisations
… the key characteristics of these societies e.g. religion or the types of buildings or art they made. It also requires that you know why these …
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… 19 June 1913 as a result of racially discriminatory laws or practices the right to restitution of that property or to fair compensation. The Restitution of…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… delivery protest, protest against undemocratic laws or land distribution has become integral part of the society, … delivery”, “rebellion of the poor”, …
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… risk is that, as generations of cadres gradually pass on or their memory fades, their knowledge will be lost forever … of its protagonists. Given that the…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… supply needs of the VOC ships and the settlement. Settlers or ‘free burgers’ that were granted land demanded cheap … their lands by the Dutch were taken as…
Tsonga
… reached the sea. Other clans believe they came from Natal or Swaziland . By the nineteenth century historical facts … by strict laws, are less formalised…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… to "angry" in English. In colloquial slang, negative words or phrases often acquire a positive connotation or "cool" status. The language of Kwaito is…