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PlacePhuthaditjhaba, Free State
… and was originally known as Witsieshoek to European settlers and Qwaqwa to locals. Its current name is a seSotho …
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…
Sadecque Variava
… Early life and schooling Sadecque Variava was born on 8 July … activist who introduced the movement to Lenasia in the early 1970s. After 1994 he continues to…
BiographyBheki Cele
… Life and Early Career Bhekokwakhe (Bheki) Hamilton Cele was born on 22 …
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 …
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,…
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…
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…
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… facilitate the expansion Northwards of the original Dutch settlers’ descendants- the Boer Voortrekkers, from the 1830's … in the Southern African Region…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… was renamed the ANC in 1923. While the organization’s early period was characterized by political inertia due to …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… in the Western Cape began organising themselves from as early as 1978 and eventually formed the United Women's …
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…
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…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… began parading through the streets of Cape Town in the early 1820s, a tradition that was given added impetus by the … on South African musical styles. In the…
ArticleZulu
… ancestors of the Nguni, migrated down from East Africa as early as the eleventh century - see South Africa's general … that had become increasingly important…