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ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
Landing page contentThis topic provides a brief introductory overview of the settlements in the Limpopo Valley before Mapungubwe, and a brief concluding…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… The three received many submissions that spoke on new topics in a unique light. Eventually, they edited and …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… demands were sorted, catalogued and interpreted. All the topics he raised were important, but the most pressing … flooding in from all over the country on…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
… 1 April 2020), Available at https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1 ↵ [2] N. Wetsman, “Everything … [online]. Available at https://www.who…
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
How to find out about the present or the history of a local area? When investigating our past, we need to look at various things and resource information…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… great further reading, specifically for the new curriculum topics on ‘European expansion, conquest and the slave trade …
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South Africa in the mid to late 20th century. During this time…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
1924 5 December, Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe is born in Graaff-Reinet a town in the Cape Province. 1940 Sobukwe enrols at Healdtown Institute where he…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… journal, as well as a series of Fact Papers on various topics, such as workers’ issues and the politics of Rhodesia. …
America, Spanish conquest
All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave TradeThe content below has been modified…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
A number of interrelated factors led to the South African War. The factors that have been covered in the text below include; the conflicting political…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
The first farmers in southern Africa were Bantu-speakers and archaeology shows that they entered southern Africa between 2 000 and 1 700 years ago This topic…
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
The Boer Republics, and the Basotho kingdom (a case study) Moshoeshoe moves to Thaba Bosiu The 1820s and 1830s were a time of great upheaval. There were many…
The Atlantic slave trade
Causes and results of slavery A main cause of the trade was the colonies that European countries were starting to develop. In America, for instance, which was…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… exchange”. The discussions were held on a variety of topics where they interrogated the national situations in …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Tennyson Makiwane, Vella…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
The Mfecane (a Zulu word which translates to “the crushing”) or Difiqane (a Sotho word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
Introduction Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993. It took its name and…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Charley-Ann Pearson Politics and…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
The Role and Impact of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile and Women in South Africa Politics Abstract Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile has played a major and vital role in the…
The French Revolution
On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in Paris. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution, which would last…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative Abstract This paper addresses the falsity of the cultural discourse…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
Overview, West Africa and the rise of the Songhai Empire West Africa is home to many of Africa's oldest kingdoms. These kingdoms played an important role in…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
George Hallett—More than Mandela Abstract George Hallett, a South African photographer is an artist who spent several decades living in exile. He left the…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… caution must be exercised when reading and writing on topics such as the one this article intends to undertake, …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… somewhere in the preparation of these lectures, as the topics were primarily on nineteenth-century Europe and the …
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
Abstract: For most of his life, Arthur Nortje’s poetry remained relatively unknown, especially since he died very young at 28. Activist Dennis Brutus called…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
1942 12 April, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is born in Nkandla in northern KwaZulu-Natal. 1958 Zuma joins the African National Congress (ANC) and through…