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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…
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…
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…
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]…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…