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Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa Activity
Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa 1. What is herding? 2. Who were the first herders in southern Africa? 3. By what other name can…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench apartheid. Leading political…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… and accused of being ANC couriers involved in a scheme to land Russian-trained guerrillas on the Transkei coast to …
Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction)
Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction)
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Charley-Ann Pearson Politics and…
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… by the Second World War. A 230ha tract of Foreshore Land was created in the process for City expansion. Before …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… 13, 1925, and embodied it in his four Bills of 1926 the Land Amendment Bill, the Native Union Council Bill, the … areas. It is, in fact, so overcrowded that…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land. [1] This led to an increase in urbanization, poverty … furrows. These settlers were also…
PlaceAgtersrivier and Kou Bokkeveld Pass , Western Cape
… in the Koue Bokkeveld Mountains, (meaning Cold Buck Shrub Land Mountain Range) and flowing North West to join …
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… pride in their prestigious appointments. The possiblity of land and other financial rewards deriving from their … St. Lucia Bay. This was an exorbitant…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
… division set up in 1865 by the Colonial authorities on land confiscated from hostile Xhosa and given to Thembu …
BiographyBilly Nair
… resistance campaign held from 1946-48 against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representative Act. He attended all …
Future state: A BPC projection and call of the youth
… Convention for life in Azania and covers aspects such as land, education, religion, human rights, law, health. …
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Chapter 6 - How the mines got their Labour and The Land is Diveded Unequally Chapter 7 - The Migrant Labour …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… of Bantu tribes from the north had come to an end. Land to the south was no longer in exhaustible and the tribes … to traditional Xhosa custom, when these…
BiographySelbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi
… His grandfather was a Methodist priest and a wealthy land owner who lived in Ixopo, Natal. The Mvusi family moved …
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
… responsibly and to take life seriously. The reality of our land is a harsh one and so harsh decisions have to be taken. …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… Bopape founded the Maropeng Resettlement Committee, a land restitution body, and served as its chairman. This …
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
… ANC to leave South Africa and proceed to Lusaka via Swazi-land. In 1985 Ebrahim re-entered South Africa on a political …
BiographyGodfrey Sekhukhune
Mogaramedi Godfrey Sekhukhune was one of the ‘most important’ of the Sekhukhune revolt leaders. He ‘was from the royal family at Mohlaletse and in the 1940s…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
A turning point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, including the formation of the PAC,…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… or glory. To more years selfless leader, lover of the land and its people, Sekgopha, Hlabirwa, our hero. You give …
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
The rounding of the Cape and the establishment of the trade route to the Far East had far reaching consequences not just for the Cape, but for Southern Africa…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
The South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC) was formed in 1916 in response to a request from the British Imperial Government for an African labour force…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… now come to the surface, the two chief of which are the land question and the salaries of Native school teachers. The land question is many-sided. The so…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… [5] Riparian rights refers to the practice of giving land owners living close to rivers priority when allocating … and Conservation of Water Act was…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
Before presenting the history and impact of resistance photography we must consider the historical moment in which resistance photography in South Africa came…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ attempts at…