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EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… and accede to be subjects of the Crown, or Black 'settlers'. *Note: Mfengu - Although they speak a common …
ArticleBlack South African literature
… with social and political progress present in such early writers as Sol Plaatjie , John Dube and Pixley Seme … History (1963). Abrahams drew for his…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… affected many other aspects of life, too. As we saw in The Early Years at The Rand, industrial society separated work … and working situations. We have…
ArticleTswana
… Although the Tswana received Christian missionaries in the early nineteenth century and most belong to a church today, … the three groups were only…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… th e Bafokeng submitted to the rule of Mzilikazi in the early part of the 19th century, Mzilikazi's Ndebele were … diagnostic type of stonewalling and…
PlacePhuthaditjhaba, Free State
… and was originally known as Witsieshoek to European settlers and Qwaqwa to locals. Its current name is a seSotho …
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… more widely emulated in the later nineteenth century and early twentieth century at rural missions in Natal and … granted responsible government in 1893,…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… her article The Gold of Migrant Labor, which as early as 1961 exposed the scandalously exploitative salaries …
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… and then alluvial gold in the Eastern Transvaal in the early 1870s, followed by gold on the Witwatersrand in 1884. …
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… respective allies. From the end of World War II until the early 1990s, world politics was dominated by the rivalry …
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… the front/back axis. Such settlements could date back as early as the mid 17th century. Some 100 years earlier, … Free State ( see pre history of…
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… Society (EANHS)]. The group consisted mainly of colonial settlers and naturalists who needed a place to keep and … Society (EANHS)]. The group consisted…
PlaceoThongathi, previously Tongaat
… developed around 1848–1850 when land was granted to settlers for sugar cultivation. Derived from the Zulu word …
PlaceMangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State
… " Place of Cheetahs " . Legend has it that when the first settlers arrived, they were stunned by the vast plains, that … "place of Cheetahs" . Legend has it…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… in the township. His love of music led him to join, at an early age, the Cradock Male Voices under the leadership of …
BiographyRick Turner
… the South African Council of Trade Unions (SACTU) in the early 1960s. After Black students left NUSAS, white activists …
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… migrated over a set route during the seasons. During the early 1650s the dominant Goringhaiqua people claimed grazing … owned by the Dutch East India Company…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… colonial Africa. CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION . The early part of this year has witnessed some unrest in the … scene of mass butchery of African inhabitants by…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… black. 5 De Kiewiet also saw the later eighteenth and the early nineteenth century as the formative period in the … barbarism and European civilization. In…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… was renamed the ANC in 1923. While the organization’s early period was characterized by political inertia due to …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… broadly, as segregationist legislation dating back to the early twentieth century – that was overturned. More than … in little more than a decade. In the new…
ArticleThe missionaries
… of many Black women and men of South Africa in the early 1950s and 1960s, and naturally played a key role in … Sobukwe and Ellen Kuzwayo attended mission…
ArticleThe Basotho
… In the early 1800’s there was a great deal of migration and upheaval … leading a group of young men of the same age during the early 1800’s. He defended a…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… policy. Mohamed remained aloof from the ANC in his early years at university but became disillusioned with the …
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… Vacant Land Theory is a theory was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth century South Africa to support their … northern half of Transorangia went…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… were presented to the British Resident by the uSuthu. Early in 1883 Cetshwayo was reinstalled as king, but his … envisaged for the kingdom could be put into…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… in the Western Cape began organising themselves from as early as 1978 and eventually formed the United Women's …
PlaceNoordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula
… doubt that it goes back to the time of the earliest white settlers some time after Jan van Riebeck arrived in the Cape … was sold to Jacobus Hurter for less…
PlaceCabo Verde
… off the West coast of Guinea-Bissau. The first permanent settlers of the island chain were Portuguese explorers who … official name in the UN General…
PlaceFree State Province
… African cultures, but built on the influences of the early European settles. Out of this has come a uniquely South … battles through the decades, including…