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A new class struggle
… all the indentured Indians would either return to India or stay as re-indentured labourers on the plantations. As it … The Indian prefers "light" occupations…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… while others claim that the 12 January 1879 (first attack) or the 22 January 1879 (first decisive battle of Isandlwana) … the British forces -many of them…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… rock art? Rock paintings and engravings are found in caves or on rocks in the open air. The rock art in the uKhahlamba … some artists like to use other tools…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… icon on the right if you have anything to contribute or if you have any questions. T he role of China and areas of … of Germany and Berlin Use the page…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… the control of the Dutch East India Company (the DEIC or VOC, the Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie). Under the … of the Cape once again. Indigenous…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… between traditional African music and the ‘tribal’ past or rural present was begun by missionaries and had become … the black musicians often had to turn to…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… dubbed 'kitchenboys' by labour Minister Sampson, or the 'Jim Fishes' for whom the chairman of the Labour Party … fomenting trouble everywhere, whether in the…
Christianity
… to do good deeds by helping people and improving society, or by working for peace and justice in the world. Who was … was a carpenter in Nazareth, but very…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… and inequality; that our country will never be prosperous or free until all our people live in brotherhood, enjoying … their birthright without distinction…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… to the Union considered unsuitable on economic grounds or on account of standard or habits of life. The Act as amended in 1913 and 1937 … to the Union…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… every man to use his own intelligence in deciding whether or not the terrible necessity for a strike has arisen. But … declared it is the duty of every man,…
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… word "imbabwe", which is the Shona word for "house of rock or stone" or "venerated house", which is associated with rulership. Who … which was the centre of…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… 1990 countries all over the world got involved in some way or another, as governments were forced to choose sides either for or against communism and the…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… This warning was not heeded, either by the outgoing regime or by the incoming democratic government as it faced the huge … leaving office that his government…
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… was declared in 1960, activists were being banned, jailed or had gone to exile, circulation was successfully stopped … managed to release their usual weekly…
ArticleTswana
… more highly stratified than those of other Sotho groups or the Nguni. Tswana culture is often distinguished for its … among village residents. Villages were…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… to go to university. Very few people in Europe could read or write. Books were very expensive and scarce. Most books … group of people in Europe were called…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… was a chronic shortage of manpower, the hundred and twenty or so employees of the VOC , mainly sailors and soldiers, … done by slaves in return for a plain…
Learning about history through objects
… Toy box: objects Sometimes we do not have written records or pictures to help us find out information about the past, … and facere meaning to make, so all…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… Within a month of Biko’s death, thousands were detained or prosecuted and sentenced to long goal terms. The … South African liberation movements to establish…
BiographyJan Smiesing
… to become schoolteachers at the Slave Lodge school or to learn trades. Certainly the VOC Slave Lodge offered …
Mission Stations - G-H
… lands. Sebeke, whose name was variously spelt as Speke or Sepeke, is reported to have been a Pedi chief. Alexander … being in general not higher from the…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… the stems and packed into hogsheads (round, wooden casks or barrels) used to hold tobacco for shipment. Tobacco became … has calculated that British ships…
ArticleTransport on land
… Cycles also have wheels, whether it is one, two three or more. Since the end of the 19th century motorcars with … not that easy. So they invented small…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… on a national basis, and many of them were either members or submitted work to SASA's annual exhibitions. However, by … George Crosland Robinson (qv.),…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… more definitive records, the presence of a post office, or some other basic means of postal collection and delivery, … too small to warrant a post office in…
The French Revolution
… by violence; and a great change in a political, social or economic system. A revolution is when people rebel against the government or the way other people…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations, peoples and … captains of the armies. The armies of the…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… belongs to all South Africans. Heritage can be tangible or intangible. Tangible heritage includes things we can see and touch, like a place, ornament,…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… claims that Black South African women ‘ had no other hope or prospects for decent jobs or accommodation incentives except to work as domestic … because if…