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… day and evening schools.Á‚ There was a Mr Earl?s school on the Isipingo plantation which was attended by both Natives … Governor Keate in Despatch Number 47 of 1867 wrote that on the Reunion Estate a hospital was converted into a schoolroom for Indian children on the estate. 1865 A report ?Native Schools 1865? states that …

… Lückhoff High School was established in 1935, as the first secondary school for the town’s ‘Coloured’ population of Stellenbosch. To date no publication exists that focuses solely on the history of the school. The original Lückhoff High school …

… When the Voortrekkers arrived in the region, they set up settlements in various locations. One of the earliest settlements, in 1836, was in the Zoutpansberg, …

… The destruction of the Zulu kingdom 1879 -1896 In the 1870s settler and colonial determination to bring Blacks under firm political control had undermined the hard-won security that many African societies had …

… Introduction General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his … deputy. Their South African National Party, later known as the South African Party (SAP), followed a generally …

… Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth" (Plaatjie, S.T. (1916). Native Life in …

… General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his … deputy. Their South African National Party, later known as the South African Party (SAP), followed a generally …

… A resolution is passed at a student body meeting for the establishment of a student Wages Commission. David Hemson … Nupen together with political scientist Rick Turner lead the collective thinking on the establishment of the Commission. 8 June, The first …

… The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was … established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela , Ashby Mda , … Ngoyi, James Njongweni, William Nkomo and Dan Tloome.  The aim of the Youth League was to galvanise the youth to …

… The year of 1985 signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. … an upsurge of violent and non-violent resistance to the racially-exclusive system of apartheid - which had seen … The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Volume 4 [1980-1990] …

… 1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela leads an anti-pass demonstration resulting in the burning of passes in Port Elizabeth. Nelson Mandela …

… Overview, West Africa and the rise of the Songhai Empire West Africa is home to many of Africa's … kingdoms. These kingdoms played an important role in the development of trade and economic growth of the region. …

… Ancient Egypt The ancient Egyptian civilisation grew for thousands of years intact because the Nile River Valley and Mediterranean and Red Sea border kept foreigners and their ideas away. The Nile River was very important to Egyptian civilisation . …

… It is thought that Andries Hendrik Potgieter was one of the first Voortrekkers to settle in the Rustenburg area. David Livingstone, the famous English explorer, came into conflict with …

… Abstract This article traces the major segregation laws in South Africa that acted as precedent for the 1954 Native Resettlement Act. This apartheid law authorised the forced removal of Africans from “any area in the …

… After the French Revolution, the newly founded Republic of France conquered the Netherlands in 1795. The Netherlands became known as the …

… The section below on the Mfecane can be used as an introduction to this section. … for this is that there are very few written accounts of the mfecane, which makes it very difficult to determine the reasons for the movement, or its course. The people who …

… had always been a question in peoples' minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of the People in 1955, to take place. In 1956, their question …

… In 1990, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP ) formed an alliance. The alliance was formed after an agreement was reached to …

… Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM).  Tennyson Makiwane , Vella … , South Africans in exile, play a significant role in the Boycott Movement.  The Anti-Apartheid Movement vigorously …

… The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa’s Black …

… 1775 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought begins in Southern Africa resulting in the Mahlatule famine. This resulted in conflict over cattle, … tribes resulting in war and eventually contributing to the Mfecane 1812 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the …

… By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entrenched. The formation of the Union of South Africa accelerated the …

… Afrikaans Community (1838-1899) The First White Inhabitants It is documented that the first pioneers from the Eastern Cape undertook a hunting expedition to the former …

… in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances since the 18th century, when slaves in the Cape were forced to carry "permission" documents. The …

… The South African Police Service (SAPS) that we are familiar with today has its origin after the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902. Prior to the war each colony or Boer republic had its own law …

… 1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian … labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the 1930s and 1940s.  Municipal workers and their dependants totalled almost  10 000. Most were housed at the Magazine Barracks in Somtseu Road, Durban, where …

… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations, peoples and states. Consider the …

… The first white inhabitants Between 1820 and 1826, Afrikaner … trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River and settled near a spring (fountain) in the …

… Introduction The 16 June 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that triggered the uprising can be traced back to policies of the Apartheid …