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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…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… the West Sotho (Tswana), and the North Sotho (Pedi). Early Sotho origins and history is largely unknown, but … the three groups were only established as a…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… that has captured the texture of Sophiatown and life in early Apartheid South Africa in ways that no other form of … and the stiffening of Apartheid in the…
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…
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 …
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… people in the country had reached nearly five million. Early in his presidency, however, Mbeki did not accept that …
BiographyJan Smiesing
… school work and knowledge of the catechism was instilled early and neglect of either would be ‘punished without …
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… Boers, which culminated in the Second Anglo-Boer War . Early life and career Chamberlain was born in July 1836 in …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… Amelia Williams, in Mozambique on 14 January 1918. Early life Aged three, Tsafendas was sent to live in Egypt …
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… Together, these factors precipitated the establishment of early African political organisations in the late 1870s and … 1912. Thus, the area is synonymous…
ArticleThe Transkei
… culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke into the open early in 1960. At first the government pretended that nothing … of the Pondos ever having taken up…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… basis. 1964 Currie's gets floodlights. Late 1970s-1980s-early 1990s Up until the late 1970s the predominant use for … resistance this use carried into the…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… often comprises the indigenous Khoisan people and White settlers. Most of the Coloured population live in the …
PlaceAlgeria
… 132 Years of French rule. An exodus of one million French settlers then occurred. Since independence Algeria has …
PlacePhillipton
… South Africa", published in 1828, antagonised both Dutch settlers and British colonial administrators. Philipton's …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
Ancient: Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. BC: Before Christ. Used in the Christian calendar to show a particular…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… Spain and Portugal. Usually, when envisaging the 1652 settlers, we mentally take farmers off their tractors, or … sillier than to pass judgment on them. The…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… on juries and the opposition to pass laws. [41] Another early political organization that Isaac helped found as a … guilty and sentenced for five years of…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… that the ANC was a terrorist organisation. In the early 80s, Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Aziz Pahad were appointed by … the media became intensely suspicious of…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… Black Community Programmes were a key component of the early BC movement. In order to achieve the goal of infusing … Albertina Sisulu later testified that…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… South African art at an official and national level. Its early membership was surprisingly broadly- based, featuring … from our disadvantaged communities is…
BiographyFranco Frescura
… although his political awakening was yet to come, from an early age his personal ideas on racial equality brought him …
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… decolonisation swept across the African continent, in the early 1960s African liberation movements in countries that … as a central strategy of the…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
… food. The Khoi and San, however, refused to labour for the settlers, and slaves were imported from outside the Cape. The … the most common form of resistance…
PlaceNewcastle
… During the years of 1849-1851 some 5000 odd British settlers arrived in the Colony settling the Buffalo Border … out for Pretoria and the annexation of the…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… takes us, however, into a different direction. While this early school was extremely oppressive, we have, in this first … notably, comes the first formal…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… the leading edges and the pushing back of the Xhosa in the early wars in the 19th C had made some land available (however, the 1820 settlers had also been…
Address to the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, 2 May 2002
… their superiors that when establishing the settlement, the settlers should reciprocate the ubuntu of the Khoi and the … an opinion that was to inform the…
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
… had great fortitude as during the wars between settlers and tribes, they rebuilt their mission three times …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… Since the early 1990s, June 16, now known as Youth Day, has been … memorialising the June 16 Soweto uprising started in the early 1980s. One of the projects…