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BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… form the bulwark of Ghana’s leap forward (GhanaWeb - “History of Akosombo Dam”, 2018). The Akosombo dam, initially …
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 … Prehistory to the year 2000, unpublished papers with SA History Online.| Who is Shaka…
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… a distinctive Afrikaner outlook rooted in the religion and history of the people, to be attained by an all-embracing … an Afrikaner Literature SJ du Toit…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Polokwane an Overview
… point of contact between various people and processes. The history of Pietersburg /Polokwane is inextricably linked to … television screen and international…
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…
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…
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…