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Stephen Bantu Biko Writings, Documents, Articles and Papers
… Stephen Bantu Biko Writings, Documents, Articles and Papers …
Outside Links pertaining to Maritime history and heritage
… Outside Links pertaining to Maritime history and heritage …
USA’s application of principles of Darwinism and Eugenics
… USA’s application of principles of Darwinism and Eugenics …
BiographyThamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele
… on 10 December 1948. His father was a minister of religion and his mother a domestic worker. In the sixties, his father and mother separated, and Thami was…
BiographySparrow Mkonto
… in Cradock. He left school after Standard 8 (Grade 10) and worked for the Railways, where he joined the railway … Cradock in 1972. They had one child,…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… emigrated to South Africa from Bavaria, Germany in 1894, and Chlothilde Theilheimer. Hellman was educated at Barnato Park and at the classical section of the…
BiographyAaron Mahlangu
… Born in 1914 Mahlangu was a trade unionist. As a domestic worker, Mahlangu took part in the 1942 anti-pass campaign and was sacked. Later he was again…
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… stopover for Dutch ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India and the Far East on their quest for exotic goods. THE … over 30 vessels. THE VICTORIA BASIN The…
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
… South Africa. His parents, now late, were Nkokwe Peter and Moleseng Anna Tiro. Tiro had two brothers and one sister. His mother was a domestic worker at…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… frustration among black people, the Sharpeville incident and the banning of the ANC and the PAC. Soon after the break up between the ANC and the PAC, the ANC…
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… Source: top image, www.thomas.maritime.free.fr and bottom image, www.womankind.org.uk South Africa's history is closely tied to European colonial and…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… 1959, was from the beginning based on a non-racial ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was an early opponent of apartheid and racial segregation. It is no surprise…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ attempts at resisting and deposing their enslavement was on an individual level, most often through overt attacks on…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench apartheid. Leading political activists were … or endorsed out of Cape Town while…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African … to the government’s increased introduction…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… gatherers of Southern Africa are people known as the San and Khoi-Khoi. Archeologists have estimated that … of Southern Africa who live or used to live by…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for blacks (both men…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… The rounding of the Cape and the establishment of the trade route to the Far East had … round the Cape all the way to India, stopped briefly and bartered for…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… reached its height with the outbreak of World War 1 and 2, as well as the Cold War. Tin this case, two of the world’s major superpowers, the USA and Soviet…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… Aborigine is a Latin word from 'ab' meaning origin, and 'origine' meaning from the beginning. They account for … European settlement has been estimated at…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… played an important role in assisting these movements and acted as a consistent opponent of colonial rule in … Julius Nyerere – the architect of Tanzania’s…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… played an important role in assisting these movements and acted as a consistent opponent of colonial rule in … Julius Nyerere – the architect of Tanzania’s…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… adopted by the regime to deal with political activists and other "offenders." Cases in point include the ruthless handling of the Sharpeville protests (1960…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… catapult the ANC Women’s League into a new era of action and multi-party interaction. From this era a new breed of … comprised of those who realised the need…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the Dutch in 1652, and…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… ‘of exceptionally good character, between the age of 20 and 30, minimum height 5ft. 3in., chest measurement 33 ½ in., unmarried and without dependants would…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… areas were the Bakwena ba Mogopa on the farm Swartrand and Bakubung ba Monnakgotla at Boons or Molote. This feature … sharecropper families spread across the…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… to alleviate the labour shortage at the Western Front and in French ports. In 1916 the Allied forces faced a … follows: It is not possible for us to work…
Pottery, division of labour, trade, medicine and healing, hunting
… Age women were skilled potters. Pots were used for cooking and storing food. They were also probably used in religious … most of the agricultural labour like…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project
… by SAHO’s longer established collaborations with McGill and Southern Methodist Universities. The project involved … undertaking individual research,…