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Cape Floral Region
… A serial site - in Cape Province, South Africa - made up of … less than 0.5% of the area of Africa but is home to nearly 20% of the continent's flora. The…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… has been Namibia’s only official language. This was a controversial policy and remains contested. This timeline provides some historical background to the…
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… These are elections in which all citizens are allowed to participate. No one has changed the results, or tried to force people to vote for a particular party…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
… Modern Africa 1971 For Melba 1970 The Present Is a Dangerous Place to Live January 1974 To the Bitter End June 1974 My … Way I Salute You…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… these two Superpowers. The Cold War spread outside Europe to every region of the world, and drew to a close in the late 1980s. Towards the end of the 1980s, …
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… (Malinke) people against Sosso dominance. According to the oral epic Sundiata , preserved by griots (hereditary … oral historians called jeliw ), Sundiata…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… 1930 - 1939 1930 May 4-5, Gandhi: At 12.45 a.m., arrested at Karadi, a village near Dandi where Gandhi had broken Salt law on … of Surat under Regulation…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… On 30 March 1960, Philip Kgosana led a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to the police…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1994 to 1995 In December 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs … removed. 1998 In September 1998, two Senegalese and a Mozambican were thrown from a…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… women as members. In 1918, the government threatened to reintroduce pass laws for women a these had been relaxed after the success of earlier … the Bantu…
Key terms and definitions Grade 12 topic 4
… Key terms definitions Abolished Officially ended or put to stop, especially a system or an institution Advisory councils a body which gives voluntary…
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… university professors and some communists. It became a leading voice in the South African struggle against apartheid, especially in the 1940s. As a result of…
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens who have excelled in … from Africa. Mapungubwe hill - forms the background, a sandstone hill on…
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… 8985 BCE The San are believed to have first populated Southern Africa 15 CE Khoikhoi … from the Lynton farm in the Eastern…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… governing party and has been in power since the transition to democracy in April 1994. The organisation was initially … of white minority rule galvanized the…
ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
… A decade by decade events account of the women's struggle in South Africa. 1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time
… namely; land, water and air. It looks at the earliest to the most modern forms of transport. The focus in the … destinations and has made transporting of…
Maps through time, Polokwane
… Polokwane Today If you would like to see Polokwane map today go to http://g.co/maps/ahpma Browse historical to recent time’s maps, learn about the past, and…
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… [v] 1984 Exposes brutality in ANC camps. [vi] 1986 Is a member of an ANC delegation that included Oliver Tambo , … These meetings lay the groundwork for…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… the production of plays including Sarafina which went on to play on Broadway. Sarafina , a South African musical produced by Mbongeni Ngema depicted ……
Maps through time, Durban
… Durban Today If you would like to see Durban map today go to http://g.co/maps/z2em5 Browse historical to recent time’s maps, learn about the past, and what…
ArticleImpact of World War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after 1945
… grade 11 sections are under construction and still link to old content. Also note, there may be minor changes to the curriculum from year to year, teachers…
Impact of pseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism on the 19th and 20th Centuries
… grade 11 sections are under construction and still link to old content. Also note, there may be minor changes to the curriculum from year to year, teachers…
Ideas of race in the late 19th and 20th centuries
… grade 11 sections are under construction and still link to old content. Also note, there may be minor changes to the curriculum from year to year, teachers…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela … late 80s, we started…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… South African Prime Ministers from the NP (equivalent to the position of President today): Following constitutional … until his resignation in 1989, when he…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… 1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish immigrants (from Latvia … Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1939…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… From: A Crime Against Humanity, edited by Max Coleman THE MANY … the historical record but few can have raised repression to the level of an art form in the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… been forgotten or their roles overlooked. Yusuf Dadoo left a formidable political legacy, covering a number of fields spanning the relationship between ……
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… 1775 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought begins in Southern Africa resulting in the … tribes resulting in war and…