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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 …
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…
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…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age) 800 000 years … Nama groups eventually joining in. More than 100 German settlers and…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… Upon his return from training in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, he served as the naval liaison officer with the …
BiographyAdam Small
… 1970s and he joined the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) early in the decade. He soon became an important campaigner …
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… first Black ordained Presbyterian clergyman and an early advocate of Black pride and racial equality who was one …
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…
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 …
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…
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… between the British and Dutch were running high. The Dutch settlers strongly (and correctly) suspected the British of …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… its origins in Dutch. It developed amongst Dutch-speaking settlers and slaves in South Africa in the 17th century, and …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… to pay for the reacquisition of land held by British settlers. The British, however, went back on this agreement, …