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EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… to the Sierra Leone Company for the "free community of settlers, their heirs and successors." A few years later the settlers were also joined by settlers of…
PlacePeddie
… Because of its critical position in the defence of the Albany district, over the next few years it underwent a …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Kisumu is completed, spanning 965 km. European and Indian settlers arrive in great numbers in East Africa. White settlers control the colony and take the…
PlaceTranskei
… the Zuurveld and annexed it to the Cape as the District of Albany. Following further clashes in 1818 and 1819 a highly … virtually unchecked across the…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… is organised mainly by leaders of the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA). July 29, Recruitment of … the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… Alex Niet arrives in Okahandja, causing panic among the settlers when he tells them that 300 armed Herero are on … to attack the town. In response Lieutenant…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… of Australia were labeled 'Aborigines' by the British settlers. Aborigine is a Latin word from 'ab' meaning origin, … Although many indigenous communities…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… enjoy from missionaries lead to tensions between the white settlers on the one hand and their servants and labourers and … at Gqokoli Hill 1820 Approximately…
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… established by the British Government for the 1820 British Settlers. Lord Somerset had a distinct sense of … in Cape Town. He mediated between Xhosa chiefs…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… which was used as a dye, until the first permanent settlers arrived in 1532. The first permanent settlement was … in 1615. It was called Fort Nassau, near…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… the remaining 93% of the land were allocated to white settlers. [3] The impact of this new law was far-reaching … were also not allowed to rent land…
PlaceClumber, Eastern Cape
… in 1820 to Dr Thomas Carlton, leader of a party of settlers from Nottinghamshire. In October 1893 its name was … On this site same the Nottingham party of…
Griqua
… quickly crossed the Orange River and defeated the settlers at Zwartkoppies. Maitland, who was Governor at the … Government, faced with the objections of both…
Griqua community
… quickly crossed the Orange River and defeated the settlers at Zwartkoppies. Maitland, who was Governor at the … Government, faced with the objections of both…
Zulu Community
… is based on archaeological evidence, and later on European settlers’ diaries and Zulu oral histories. Long ago, before … very slowly and many skirmishes…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… by hunting and gathering. DID YOU KNOW! The European settlers had many names for the hunter gatherers: Bosjesman, … most challenging environments, and to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. 4 February, The Second Round-table … S.L. Singh and P.R. Pather form the Colonial…
A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile
… a memorial tower to commemorate the landing of the British Settlers of 1820, was made in 1904 by the Reverend Alfred E … a lofty tower which would serve as a…
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… Africa. The first people in Mapungubwe were early Iron Age settlers. They lived there from about 1000 AD to 1300 AD, and … Unit 1- Changes in society in the…
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… was erected to commemorate the landing of the 1820 Settlers and is situated at the entrance to the railway … and docks in Strand Street, the spot where it is…
EventThe last quagga in the world dies in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
… the quagga was brought upon by aggressive hunting by the settlers. The quagga could not be tamed and the settlers began to view them as pests. They were…
PlaceHout Bay, Atlantic Seaboard- Western Cape
… "Houtbaai" (Wood Bay) as it was named by the Dutch settlers while they explored the Bay behind Table Mountain . … to the quantity of excellent timber which…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… on the islands of São Tomé and Principé. The Portuguese settlers on these islands used slaves bought from the Kongo … India and even China with African ivory…
Khoisan Identity
… who did not speak Khoi languages – known to white settlers as ‘Bushmen’ - in contradistinction to the … two thousand years. However, with the arrival of…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… arrived in South Africa at the same time as European settlers, but new research proves that they were here … much easier. The arrival of the ox-plough with…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… of local Khoikhoi pastoralists by early Dutch settlers that opened up the area for European settlement. … conflicts with the Khoikhoi who lost grazing…
EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… after the war is over would become targets of the original settlers or the Boers. Nevertheless, the British settlers continued to live in South Africa after…
EventBattle of Vaalkrans begins
… crush these aspirations were however quite difficult. The settlers were determined, were quite able to survive in the African climate and were well armed…
Durban an Overview
… under British control. At this point many of the Dutch settlers chose to leave the province, resettling in the OFS …
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… together with animal bones and stone tools. The Dutch settlers referred to the Khoikhoi as Hottentots, because of …