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ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… influenced the processes and politics of exclusion in the early 20th century South Africa, and elsewhere in the African … each were ruled by Britain. They…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… David Jansz and takes off with almost the whole of the settlers herd of cattle. He is pursued but not captured. 1654 … the ownership of the land takes place…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… that took a creative turn in Durban in the 1970s and early 1980s. In Part Two, I examine the idea that, by failing … Africa ’ s transition to democracy in…
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, …
PlaceBotswana
… History can be traced back, to the 14th Century. These early inhabitants of Botswana were the San and Kho Societies … were influenced by political…
PlaceAngola
… was followed by the 27 year long Angolan Civil War . Early Inhabitants of Angola Because of a reliance on oral … authorities, there is much which is not…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Africans from the Western Hemisphere. The most important early Pan-Africanists were Martin Delany and Alexander … African Americans, and Edward Blyden, a…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… own societies. The second section will investigate how early African farmers lived in settled chiefdoms. The class … activities and children were…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… which separated Jan Van Riebeeck and the first Dutch settlers of the seventeenth century from the Africans. 3 … country. The most cohesive archives that…
PlacePiquetberg
… post, and may have its roots in the conflict between Dutch settlers and Khoikhoi in 1673-76. At that stage the Dutch …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… which resulted in strained relations between the German settlers, the Herero and the Namaqua.Local rebellions took …
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… of Indians were taken as slaves to Batavia (now Jakarta) early in the seventeenth century. According to Anna Boeseken, … to the Netherlands. Some were sold…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… in the show has, of course, a political dimension too. Early in the exhibition we see images of white Afrikaners … carefully posed portrait photographs, some…
BiographyLouis Botha
… debt of 'duty and honour' to demonstrate gratitude for the early granting of self-government. But he had another motive … he overran the German positions and…
PlaceWinterberg Mountains, Amatola
… to the Bushmen, Boer and British soldiers, and Scottish settlers. The Winterberg was originally inhabited by San and … Great Trek, leaving their farms for…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… families with English names, descendants from these early settlers, are still living in Gansbaai. The village was laid …
PlaceHaarlem
… be followed by a particularly tough community of European settlers. One of them was Jan de Buys, the father of Coenraad …
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… became the seat of a periodic trade fair, where European settlers and indigenous residents could gather to trade …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… of new taxes, and also the encroachment of white settlers on land owned by Africans. Dube becomes involved by …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… employment originated during the colonial era [i] . Early Dutch immigrants employed and enslaved members of the …
PlaceZimbabwe
… War. Zimbabwe has since 1980 been led by Robert Mugabe . Early History of Zimbabwe The Country which is now known as … of Mapungubwe would last for another…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… measures they introduced. As was to become apparent in the early 1970s, this assault on political formations by the … were made to infiltrate cadres into…
Cedric Nunn
… and Baynesfield. I began photography in Durban in the early eighties, my initial impetus being to document the … to work independently after the demise of…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
… best known for the historic Zulu kingdom, dating to the early 19th century. To understand the prehistory of the Zulu … in the Nigeria/Cameroon area of West…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… Transition Act. According to Lungisile Ntsebeza, ‘As early as the early 1990s, CONTRALESA under chief Holomisa rejected the … their land rights and…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… It is rarer still that this should be the case in these early days of our democracy, when the old still pervades and … could have chosen to focus on the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… It is rarer still that this should be the case in these early days of our democracy, when the old still pervades and … could have chosen to focus on the…
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
… history of this country before the arrival of the European settlers. The full story begins millions of years ago. … that were chipped off, were used for…