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ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… relevant examples. In 1602 The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was established to trade spices, silks and calico with … slaves from Madagascar, Mozambique…
PlacePlumstead
… Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, …
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… XVII (Lords Seventeen) of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Simond was stationed at Drakenstein, where he was given …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
… van Riebeeck, an employee of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Arrived at the Cape in 1652, to set up a Refreshment …
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
Early Life John Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up…
BiographyKabelo Sello Duiker
Kabelo Sello Duiker was born in Orlando West, Soweto, Johannesburg. Duiker was the eldest of three brothers and his parents were well-educated and affluent…
Subbiah Moodley - "Voices Of Resistance"- University Of Durban Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project , 2002
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… The early Cape was settled not only by ex-VOC workers who became free burghers and the Huguenots but … Ocean basin, since that was the trading domain of the…
Afrikaner
… sea route to the East, and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a refreshment post in Table Bay (present day … Free Burghers, had been granted…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… colonial settlers. In 1652, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) founded a refreshment outpost at the Cape. By the 1670s, the VOC decided to establish a…
BiographyCarol Moses
Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… When the VoC granted land in Rondebosch to the first free Burghers, …
PlaceWelgelegen Homestead, next to Mosterts Mill
… In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number …
Nelson Mandela STIMME DER HOFFNUNG: Die autorisierte Biographie – aufgezeichnet von by Fatima Meer
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.2 No.1 1971
Editors: Tony Morphet and Mike Kirkwood. Contents: Two Poems, Douglas Livingstone. Arthur, or The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing, Christopher Hope. Photographer…
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.3 1970
EDITORS: TONY MORPHET and MIKE KIRKWOOD. Contents: The Hyenas-A Colonial Study, E. Wyllie Findlay. Women in Love, Phil Joffe; Picasso, Kathy Adler. Poetry:…
ArchiveBolt: Magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.2 1970
CONTENTS Isotopes. For women in Trouble, Douglas Livingstone. The Problem of Censorship, C.J.D. Harvey. Marcuse: The Power of Negative Thinking, Rick Turner…
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.1 1970
CONTENTS Why Read Bosman, John Vear. Poem, Laurence Lerner. Diary of a Man Reading Spenser, Peter Strauss. Two Poems, Doug Livingstone. The Man Behind the…
Mine Commissioner Carl von Brandis proclaims the first public mining activities in Johannesburg.
Mine Commissioner Carl von Brandis proclaims the first public mining activities in Johannesburg.
Wilma von Molendorff (36) dies after a shark attack off the coast of Mozambique.
Friedrich von Lindequist, new governor of German South West Africa, arrives in Lüderitzbucht.
BiographyAchmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor, an award winning novelist and poet, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in 1948. He lived with…
BiographyShaleen Surtie-Richards
Legendary stage, film, and television actress, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, was born on 7 May 1955 in Upington, Cape Province (now Northern Cape). She attended…
PlaceLutheran Church, Martin Melck House and Sexton House, Strand Street, Cape Town.
… When the Dutch first settled at the Cape in 1652 , the VoC limited the colonist's freedom of worship to the Dutch …
PlaceSimon's Town Museum
… called the "Dutch East India Company") or simply the "VOC". After much dithering, the VOC finally acted on his recommendation in 1743, when Baron … in the…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… was a shipment point for different types of slaves by the VOC. Those who went to the far eastern countries and the West … Van Rensburg papers) – Starting…