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Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… in groups along the Gariep River in the central parts of southern Africa. The Kora kept close contact with the Cape Colony. … flour, tobacco and oxen. The…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… the armed struggles of liberation movements of South Africa, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Mozambique. … in the north. UNITA was operating in the…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… associations with this pidgin; the spread of it across Southern Africa; the varieties of Fanakalo; and lastly, examples of … basis in the workplace. [2]…
ArticleActivity: Human evolution
… is a hominid? What is a fossil? List two places in South Africa where we have found hominid fossils and point them out … World Heritage Site? Name 5 World…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the … happening inside the country and in the wider…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… with every day life within the black community in South Africa. Musical resistance gained most of its popularity … “a slender, iron-tipped, hardwood spear…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… Nguni and Sotho speaking groups begin colonizing South Africa (subjecting and incorporating neighboring groups and … explores the south and south-east coast…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both within South … in exile, international organizations, and…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… South Africa has early human fossils at Sterkfontein and other … Sotho/Basuto, Tswana, and Pedi) migrated down from east Africa as early as the eleventh…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… looking forward to pursuing her graduate studies in South Africa. Project: Timeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected … especially interested in regional…
Khoisan Identity
… language and identity. As a free and democratic South Africa today, we cannot ignore to correct the past’. This … category for early hunter-gathering and…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central and East Africa. On the Southern African sub continent, it is Angola that is reputed ……
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… time.” [i] Due to the racial oppression he saw in South Africa, Nortje fled the country in 1961 to the U.K. and to … Poet Arthur Nortje. Current Writing:…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… the outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such as Zimbabwe and Namibia, and more recently, South Africa, market…
ArticleZulu
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into four … and Central Nguni (the Zulu-speaking…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… (SALP) as a reaction to the party’s support for South Africa’s participation in the First World War . On 22 … member of the organisation. Many socialists in…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… Relations between Russia and South Africa In the late-19th century, Russia was engaged in … The Russians also agreed to beam radio broadcasts into Southern…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… this time. The conference was an unequivocal assertion of Africa’s rejection of colonial and imperialist domination of … and to symbolize the determination…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived by hunting … reflects the glories of the…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… To many, modern mathematics and Africa are not synonymous. Open any school mathematics book … evidence of sona patterns and knot theory in South India,…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… eventually permanent European settlements in the Americas, Africa and India. Early European voyages of trade and … Bartholomeu Dias, the first European to…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… Transformations in southern Africa after 1750 Source Based Questions The following … of people during the start of the nineteenth century in Southern Africa…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… , first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa , Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, and chair of the … of his part in the transition to…
The oldest forms of human communication
… books taught, inaccurately, that Africans arrived in Southern Africa at more or less the same time as European settlers … textbooks acknowledged that the…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… Potgieter, D. J. (ed)(1974). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa Vol. 8, Cape Town: Nasou, p. 632. By the end of 1911 … Tanzania, as it. participated…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… in the Witwatersrand marks the radical transformation of Southern Africa and in particular the Witwatersrand. The region’s … of European and Asian immigrants…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Prehistory of Southern Africa Farming people did not inhabit the Greater … evidence, Sotho-Tswana and Nguni speakers moved south into southern Africa between…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… 1862 The first documented football matches in South Africa are played in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (between … Association wins the Rhodes Centenary…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… Cape in 1652 through the creation of the Union of South Africa and the period between the formation of the Union and … neighbours. This wave of displacement…
Article2016 in Review
… In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public … Department of Energy (DoE), Earthlife Africa (ELA) and the Southern African Faith…