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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…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… at the Cape was held on board on 14th April 1652. After settlers landed, provision was made in the complex of …
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… lumbered on, when war broke out between the Pedi and white settlers in the eastern Transvaal towards the end of 1876, …
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… the Swazi nation was secure. During the 1800s European settlers, traders, missionaries and hunters moved into the …
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… can be explored in the area. In Port Elizabeth, the 1820 Settlers were introduced to their new land, and there they …
Notes from Books
… 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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. May, Pixley ka Isaka Seme publishes a …
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… the choir have been recently unearthed. They are rare, early images of black South Africans. A wider range of … campaigned for women’s rights in South Africa…
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
… it is visible for many Kilometers out to Sea, and in the early days of sail, a reward was usually posted to the first … plans to take a railway line to its…
PlaceOld Town House, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… place to discuss the affairs of the Burgher Council. Early in the 18th century, when ruinous fires had already … Square. A vacant lot facing on the square…
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…