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BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… change in this most challenging period of South Africa's history. In 1998 he refused to testify before the Truth and …
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… lectured at several universities on African literature, history and political science. He was an assistant professor …
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… out a few editions of a newspaper, Textile Unity and a history of the Union, 25 Fighting Years. The text was by …
BiographyShaka Zulu
… monarchy profoundly influenced the course of South African history. … Prehistory to the year 2000, unpublished papers with SA History Online.| Who is Shaka…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… into the Portuguese colony in Angola [iii] . Early history and formation 1390 - 1491 Understanding the early history of the Kingdom of Kongo is complicated…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… laws set the scene for segregation and apartheid, and the history of 20th century South Africa is the history of the conflict between whites and the various…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… cuts up most of his time between playing music, studying history, writing, and engaging in radical education work. He … vanguard of consciousness, in…
BiographySimon Nkoli
… become one of the longest running trials in South African history spanning 240 days in court. It would be two years …
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… Treasure Trove of Memories (1996), her semi-autobiography, History of Muslims of Gujarat (2008), and the historical …
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… Cape Town has a long history of the struggle against racial discrimination and … has and continues to occupy centre stage in shaping the history of South…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… that were involved is neither here nor there. History must be recorded as it happened, not as it is wished … [secretly].” It must be recorded here for…
Polokwane an Overview
… point of contact between various people and processes. The history of Pietersburg /Polokwane is inextricably linked to … television screen and international…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… election in April 1994. This archive presents this history in two parts, namely; Emerging African Nationalism … 1960-1994 respectively. Please note that …
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. [iii] History The first occurrence of forced removals in District … Six Revisited (Bellville, South Africa:…
Grade 6 term 1 classroom support
… A ACTIVITY PLANNING OVERVIEW Subjects covered: English, History (social sciences), Connecting Classroom themes: … 3. Describe the society – rich…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the Atlantic … that he caused great inflation lasting a…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… is represented in parliament. This feature focuses on the history of the PAC’s contribution to the struggle against … " outlines the chronological events in…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). For the first time in history, two African students, one being Tambo, passed the JC … addressed meetings in Copenhagen and…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… Dadoo in 2009, SAHO is, as part of its rewriting of the history of the liberation movement, updating its material on … impulses of the time that might have…
The oldest forms of human communication
… the printed word can be misleading. For example, certain history books taught, inaccurately, that Africans arrived in … them as 'primitive', and paid very…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… accompanied by a renewed effort to write and document the history of the resistance against apartheid and colonialism. … be lost forever and their stories…
SAAAH: “Reception / Perception”
… problematises issues surrounding the discipline of art history and art criticism, the latter being a field still … A panel discussion on changes in the…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… the post-apartheid ANC, but to contribute to South African history. However, it is evident that he is unhappy with the … to work towards equality by telling…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE - CLICK HERE The Wits History Workshop, the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and South African History…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the history of women…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of South Africa in 1652. The history of the church has been very much bound with the … to pray under, one umbrella, thus making…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… is most notable for being the shortest war in recorded history, lasting less than three-quarters of an hour. The … in 1963. Endnotes [i] Knappert, J. (1992)…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's history in the last sixty years. Many of them were linked to … the authors themselves. The stories…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… use of technology or reflect important stages in human history. A place where humans settled and used the land in a … World Heritage Sites must show major…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… ask different questions about the past. Knowledge of history grows and broadens as more archaeologists find … school students in South Africa only learnt…