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BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… Bomvana, Mpondo and Thembu people. [i] Zulu Stick fight Origins There is a great debate about the origins of this indigenous sport within the Zulu group,…
ArchiveThe roots of Johnny Cleggs music
… Forum, at Wits Great Hall, on Wednesday 15th March. Origins of Zulu Crossover Culture. …
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Conference Port Elizabeth 1965 Opening Address
… Jean Sinclair on 18 October 1965, mentioning Black Sash origins, Apartheid, legislation, Native Urban Areas Act, …
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… www.francofrescura.co.za Introduction This book has its origins in research I was conducting in 1982 in the field of …
ArchiveMoral decay and social reconstruction: Richard Turner and radical reform by Eddie Webster
… The lecture formed part of a long term project on the origins, methods and scope of the sociological study of …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… awarded metaphorical and cosmological significances, their origins may be seen to lie in a pragmatic recognition that … reed - materials which preclude…
PlaceAbeam, Namibia Border Post
… road between Upington and Noenieput. The name has Khoikhoi origins and thought to mean: 'spying pool', referring to …
PlaceNdabeni
… some 8 kilometres East of the city centre. . It owes its origins to the outbreak of Bubonic plague in Cape Town on 7 … its effects were of a more permanent…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… forced Abrahams to take a journey into himself, into his origins, to determine his attitudes in life.” (Ogungbesan, …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… loosely organized, but distinct chiefdoms that have their origins in their Nguni ancestors. The majority of central … latter abolished circumcision. In order…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… been of particular interest to interpretations about the origins of fully modern human behaviour. Dating to 65 000 to …
Slavery in South Africa
… percent from Ceylon. (51 percent were Cape-born, so that origins are given only for the 49 percent). (p.207) The …
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… like us. There are many different theories about the origins of humans and much debate around this issue. … of the human being and all of these deal with the…
Afrikaner
… with their soaring steeples and classic stonework. Origins Afrikaans/ Afrikaners in the Cape The Afrikaans … different African and Asian languages, depending…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…
EventJohn Vorster says SA will welcome Maoris
… sponsored soccer tournament. Click here to read about the origins of rugby. Click here to read about South Africa and …
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… February 2015]. New History, (2010), “Diamonds and After Origins of the Migrant Labour System” from New History … http://newhistory.co.za/Part-2-Chapter-5…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… Angola [xcviii] . Endnotes [i] Thornton, John. 2001. “The Origins and Early History of the Kingdom of Kongo, c. … Currey Ltd. Page 73. ↵ [iv] Thornton, John…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… black commerce, was ultimately unsuccessful. Despite their origins outside the United States, such Pan-Africanist …
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… White Saviour are very much in line with the paternalistic origins of liberal thought in South Africa. Eddy Maloka … economic thought", I asked why, if he…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… simultaneously an African and a European, tracing her origins in both England and South Africa. In her books she …
Open Talk with Grada Kilomba
… is a Portuguese writer and interdisciplinary artist, with origins in São Tomé e Príncipe and Angola. Her work draws on …
EventHunting is prohibited in the area that is now the Kruger National Park
… east and the Drakensberg Range in the west.This marked the origins of the Sabie Game Reserve, the second reserve in …
EventDie Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time
… within Afrikaner terminology, it is possible to mark the origins of Apartheid itself, as well as recognise the …
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… movement for the abolition of slavery. Equiano’s African origins remain a contested issue as there have been …
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… Sachs and Arturo Escobar. This article first examines the origins of the development critique within the broader … Formation of the Post-World War II …
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… This remains a heated issue as it pertains to myths of origins and claims to authenticity. The KKNK in its early …
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… finding during the course of a 10-year long study into the origins of the virus. Researchers claimed that the sample …