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PlaceLydenburg, Mpumalanga
… and the debilitating heat of lower lying Areas in the early 1800's. Although Lydenburg was healthier, marauding … fought a series of bloody pitched battles…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… dating back to the Great Trek , between 1835 and the early 1840's. The Great Trek was in rebellion against the … by the 'Boeremense'- (descendants of the…
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… rooted in British colonialism and the influx of British settlers in 1820 . Initially established as a military …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… to 1914, but was eventually revoked in 1923 as the White settlers in Southern Rhodesia grew tired of company …
Bibliographical note and further reading
… A Biography (London, 1958); Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase , vol. 1 (Ahmedabad, 1969), and Mahatma Gandhi: … Town, 1983) adds significantly to our…
PlaceHeilbron, Free State
… families. Mrs Ellie de Kock described the plight of these early refugees. ‘In December 1900 they brought the first … for they may well have brought typhoid…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age) 800 000 years … Nama groups eventually joining in. More than 100 German settlers and…
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… cultural calendar, as it dates back to 1974 when the 1820 Settlers National Monument was officially opened. With the …
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… were dismantled and reworked in favour of the French settlers as they were allowed to buy or confiscate land. By …
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… and maps over her lifetime, and encouraged both settlers and Zulu families to write their family stories, in …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… and accede to be subjects of the Crown, or Black 'settlers'. *Note: Mfengu - Although they speak a common …
EventJan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time
… believed to have been unfairly confiscated by European settlers. This would be the start of a long trend, as over …
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… The sparsely populated colony slowly attracted German settlers, 3,700 by 1903, and 13,000 by 1910. In 1903, the …
English Settlement in South Africa
… by the Dutch. As a consequence, descendants of Dutch settlers left the Cape Colony, migrating eastward and north …
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… African religions and Judaism. European and other foreign settlers brought most of these religions. Traditional African …
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… Xhosa groups that were moving into the area to the German settlers of the 19th century, to the English colonists that … Xhosa groups that were moving into…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… by hunting and gathering. Did you know that the European settlers had many names for the hunter gatherers? These … only inhabitants of Southern Africa before…
PlaceKnysna, Garden Route- Western Province
… of the Cape Colony, Lord Charles Somerset - but by the early 1800s, the current spelling - Knysna - seems to have … "The History of Knysna begins with a…
PlaceSea Point
… Early History For years prior to European settlement, Sea … area began to develop as a residential suburb for European settlers in the early 1800s, and in…
PlaceThesen Island
… , were the earliest inhabitants of the island. Later, settlers made this Area their home, drawn by the rich … which soon became known as: 'Thesen Island'. In…
PlaceCarletonville
… a system of caves occupied by the ' Kwena people'' in the early 1800s. 'Lepalong' is a Tswana name, recounted in oral …
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… operation went on simultaneously against Sekhukhune and early in 1879 his stronghold was attacked... Obstacles stood …
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… became a member of the ANC Youth League in Orlando in the early 1950s. He got to know people like Nthato Motlana and …
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… activities of the NLF, September’s home was raided in the early hours of the morning of 12 July 1963, following this, …
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… of Ivan Pillay at SARS after the latter had taken early retirement. Gordhan was expected to appear in court …
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… The development of Afrikaans can be traced to arrival of settlers to the Cape. This is however not the sole factor …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… the African National Congress was created after White settlers established a government that lacked rights for … in the ANC as well as in the country…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
… Captain Evatt is known to have overseen the arrival of the Settlers in 1820 It is only in learning the history behind a … of the colony first occurred. By…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… a great portion of the World’s gold in the 19th and early 20th centuries. [2] The first gold reef in the … When speaking about investment and capital…