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ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… and increase re-indenture but reduce the number of Indian settlers The grievances of the Natal Indian Trust Board were: …
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… what you have learned about the homesteads and villages of early farmers, draw a poster of a village scene to show how … framework to present an oral in…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… Eventually, as the best land became scarce, groups of settlers clashed with one another, and rival Dutch and … with no land to go back to. The skilled miners…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… places and museums, it is relatively easy to see how the early history of South Africa was distorted during the … as the art reflects the ancient religion of…
English Settlement in South Africa
… by the Dutch. As a consequence, descendants of Dutch settlers left the Cape Colony, migrating eastward and north …
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… African religions and Judaism. European and other foreign settlers brought most of these religions. Traditional African …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age) 800 000 years … Nama groups eventually joining in. More than 100 German settlers and…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… by hunting and gathering. Did you know that the European settlers had many names for the hunter gatherers? These … only inhabitants of Southern Africa before…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… the African National Congress was created after White settlers established a government that lacked rights for … in the ANC as well as in the country…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… David Jansz and takes off with almost the whole of the settlers herd of cattle. He is pursued but not captured. 1654 … the ownership of the land takes place…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Africans from the Western Hemisphere. The most important early Pan-Africanists were Martin Delany and Alexander … African Americans, and Edward Blyden, a…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… own societies. The second section will investigate how early African farmers lived in settled chiefdoms. The class … activities and children were…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… which separated Jan Van Riebeeck and the first Dutch settlers of the seventeenth century from the Africans. 3 … country. The most cohesive archives that…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… a great portion of the World’s gold in the 19th and early 20th centuries. [2] The first gold reef in the … When speaking about investment and capital…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… influenced the processes and politics of exclusion in the early 20th century South Africa, and elsewhere in the African … each were ruled by Britain. They…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… of new taxes, and also the encroachment of white settlers on land owned by Africans. Dube becomes involved by …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… measures they introduced. As was to become apparent in the early 1970s, this assault on political formations by the … were made to infiltrate cadres into…
Cedric Nunn
… and Baynesfield. I began photography in Durban in the early eighties, my initial impetus being to document the … to work independently after the demise of…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
… best known for the historic Zulu kingdom, dating to the early 19th century. To understand the prehistory of the Zulu … in the Nigeria/Cameroon area of West…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… Most families needed their children to find work from as early an age as possible in order to bring in much needed … would join gangs. Children in Sophiatown…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… the West Sotho (Tswana), and the North Sotho (Pedi). Early Sotho origins and history is largely unknown, but … the three groups were only established as a…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… that has captured the texture of Sophiatown and life in early Apartheid South Africa in ways that no other form of … and the stiffening of Apartheid in the…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… Transition Act. According to Lungisile Ntsebeza, ‘As early as the early 1990s, CONTRALESA under chief Holomisa rejected the … their land rights and…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… employment originated during the colonial era [i] . Early Dutch immigrants employed and enslaved members of the …
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… Together, these factors precipitated the establishment of early African political organisations in the late 1870s and … 1912. Thus, the area is synonymous…
ArticleThe Transkei
… culminated in the Pondo revolt which broke into the open early in 1960. At first the government pretended that nothing … of the Pondos ever having taken up…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… basis. 1964 Currie's gets floodlights. Late 1970s-1980s-early 1990s Up until the late 1970s the predominant use for … resistance this use carried into the…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… often comprises the indigenous Khoisan people and White settlers. Most of the Coloured population live in the …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
Ancient: Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. BC: Before Christ. Used in the Christian calendar to show a particular…