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… were many Indians - slave and free - in Batavia from the early days of the Dutch settlement in the 17th century. Dutch … British occupied the Cape in the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the Hottentots”
… Thomas Pringle, who had come out with the 1820 Settlers, became the spearhead during Somerset’s time. Philip … activity, namely, the subjugation of the…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… heavy industry grew slowly in Russia, and by the early 1900s it had only established itself in a handful of … from using their weaponry on the workers. In…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… in the Western Cape began organising themselves from as early as 1978 and eventually formed the United Women's … December 1983 as one of the affiliates of…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… ‘Afri’ that the Romans derived the term ‘Africa’. In the early sixteenth century the famous medieval traveller and … the Nile as the dividing line between…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… one of uncertainty and, for a number of years many of its early buildings retained their prefabricated iron-and-timber character. Growth of the Early Gold…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… the government crackdown on political organizations in the early 1960s, new organizations emerged to fill the political … fueled the youth hatred for the…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… that the PAC would launch its own anti-pass campaign. Early in 1960 both the ANC and PAC embarked on a feverish … many people joined the procession quite…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… mountains between South Africa and Swaziland. [1] Other early artifacts had markings of 28, which has been speculated to be an early count of the menstrual…
EventThe Blue Bulls rugby team wins the South African Currie Cup at Loftus
… to the SA Rugby Board as per Currie's instructions. In the early years there were no Cup finals with the team finishing … first-ever Currie Cup final was…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
… are still inhabited by direct descendants of the original settlers to the area. The scenery is nothing short of … that stands in Barkly East’s square is a…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… administrative matters, Lekganyane left ZAFM late 1924 or early 1925 and started his own church; the Zion Christian …
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… South Africa’s first democratically elected president. Early Life Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in a small …
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… as well as the release of political prisoners in the early 90s and the country’s transition from repressive rule …
ArticleActivity: Human evolution
… does pre-history mean? Why is archaeology important to us? Early Hominid discoveries a. Answer the following questions …
ArticleThe Battle - Andries Pretorius and his men advance
… A heavy mist surrounded the laager and only lifted in the early hours of the morning, this made visibility poor. At …
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1956 carried the idea …
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… SANNC was an elitist rather than a mass movement in its early days, and consisted of members with an education or a …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… law, human rights law and aboriginal law. Project: The Early History of Rugby in South Africa Timeline of the …
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… an Anglican Church. McLelland was an influential figure in early Port Elizabeth, started its first school and delivered … style was interpreted into…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… inner city settlements condemned as slums in the 1920s and early 1930s. One of the slum yards known to have been very … of Africans in the city, also…
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… in 1975 and re-issued in 1983 and 1994. Much of Jonker's early writing related to the episodes and trauma of her early life. Yet as a mature poet, Jonker…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. May, Pixley ka Isaka Seme publishes a …
PlacePioneer Museum, Silverton Pretoria
… three hectare area to the Museum gives one a real sense of early farming Culture in South Africa, as one takes a guided … cooking method demonstrations and…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… in South Africa' (Brandel-Syrier, 1962:97). This early, widespread mobilisation and solidarity in manyanos … that diocese in 1931, for example (SPG, Report,…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… more than a century ago and may be dated back as early as 1907. However, it is maintained that its social … The roots of slavery in the Cape can be traced…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… period. These were practical guides meant to help settlers adjust to their new environment and publications … [6] He probably also contributed to Abantu…
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… might have been introduced to humans in the 1940s or early 1950s. However, in January 2000 (San Francisco, … suggested that the first case of HIV infection…
PlaceRiverside
… as they are now widely accepted as part of the country's early numismatic History. The coins were widely used as … They are, in fact, as numismatically…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… More than 30 Years after Cosmas Desmond penned down the early History of Dimbaza, it remains a unique and … Many ex-Robben Islanders were banished to Dimbaza…