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Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… Jan van Riebeeck was sent to the Cape to establish a station at which ships of the United Dutch … with the end of Company rule. Van Riebeeck planned to stay…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… 14 October 1639 : Simon van der Stel is born to parents Adrian van der Stel and Maria Leviens aboard le Cappel on route to Mauritius. 25 May 1646 : His…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
… is a deceptively simple idea. It can be considered to be made up of the practices and traditions that are passed on from parents to children, but it also has…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… by present generations that the Society was the first to nurture a sense of community among our practising artists … craft, as well as students and…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… used as combatants by the British, especially as scouts to track down Boer commandoes and armed block house guards, … during which those who lived on White…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… results when the people’s rights and freedom enable them to decide how to allocate their own economic resources for the development … as the expropriation of…
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… Pretoria. Its residents are Ndzundza Ndebele , and belong to three major family groups: the Msiza, the Bhuda, and the … at Wonderboompoort, but when this…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… placed in Moscow's Red Square. His supporters, attempting to develop a personality cult, gave exaggerated accounts of … by historians. Although Lenin can be…
Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO)
… conference held in Johannesburg. The aim of FOSACO was to establish a representative national structure for cultural workers and to initiate the process of…
Grade 10 Archive
… : The powerful Ottoman Empire blocked European access to markets in the East. The Ottoman Turks controlled trade routes to the East. The Americas by the…
Karen Nieuwoudt
… I grew up in Johannesburg in an Afrikaans family. I went to the University Of Pretoria where I obtained a BA Degree. … Provincial Administration. My work…
Cedric Nunn
… 'I am committed through my photographs, to contributing to societal change that will leave a positive legacy for the … in Durban in the early eighties, my…
The Court’s position in the justice system
… matters. So its jurisdiction - the scope of its authority to hear cases - is restricted to constitutional matters and issues connected with decisions … in…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… giving of a bride ( Setima Mello - the Snuffer of Fires) to a subordinate chief always a Pedi of the paramount chief's … mountain strongholds. Later, Pedi…
ArticleActivity: Human evolution
… Learning Outcomes: Uses information from sources to present well-thought out answers to questions. Communicates knowledge and understanding by … following…
ArticleMapungubwe
… Zimbabwe and Botswana, 75 km from Messina. It sits close to the point where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet. One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe appears to…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… history and biology on the Pre-Med Track. Her passion is to read and go on long, contemplative walks. Always wanting to travel and leave behind a legacy, she…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… Organisation (SASO) was gathering support from campus to campus. Their activities were becoming increasingly radical and openly hostile to apartheid and…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… of users”. [1] In its indigenous sense, it relates to kinship between numerous African languages. In Anthropology, the term was used to refer to the people…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… up of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council (TEC) to manage South Africa’s transition to democracy. Two months later, the Interim Constitution under…
ArticleHeritage
… our past, and where we come from – means different things to different people. Some people relate to the idea of heritage in a personal way, while others see…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… (CATHSSETA). This programme is designed for students to gain work experience in research and for graduates to become familiar with the use of the web as a…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to neutralise political dissent was the State of Emergency … within a short space of time, and an…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… this indigenous sport within the Zulu group, some trace it to the times of Shaka Zulu and others to Amalandela, the son of Gumede, around 1670. However it is…
The Origin of People
… in the cupboards Have you heard the expression used to refer to past secrets "skeletons in the cupboards"? Have you ever … did in the past? Some of these…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… the conflict between AZAPO and the UDF in Soweto from 1984 to 1993. At its inception in 1979 AZAPO adopted the Black … (BPC). In the first four years of its…
Thupelo (1985)
… of emergency and facilities and resources were not offered to Black artists on both educational and professional levels. The workshops aimed to address and…
The National Flag
… and therefore no universal symbolism should be attached to any of the colours. The central design of the flag, … in a "V" form and flowing into a single…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… blood was so red It felt as if all we needed was two arms To get across) Aisa na hua har dhaare mein Kuch andekhi … hai (Have your say Criticize,…
OSEO report on Allan Boesak
… got the Johannesburg legal firm, Bell, Dewar & Hall, to investigate. The ANC could not accept the allegations, and … the after the investigation, but the ANC…