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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…
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…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Africans from the Western Hemisphere. The most important early Pan-Africanists were Martin Delany and Alexander … African Americans, and Edward Blyden, a…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
… here, he hunted and traded with the locals, both the white settlers and native Zulus . He became a popular figure. … trading centre became; 'kwaJim'- (Jim’s…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… Most families needed their children to find work from as early an age as possible in order to bring in much needed … would join gangs. Children in Sophiatown…
EventGerman Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swakopmund, South West Africa
… themselves steadily being pushed off their land by German settlers. The uprising against the Germans by Samuel Maharero …
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… became a major base for commercial hunters, explorers and settlers travelling into the Southern African interior. The …
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
… and was erected to provide a place of worship for English settlers of the Anglican denomination in the City. …
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…