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ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… famine. This resulted in conflict over cattle, grain and water between various indigenous tribes resulting in war and eventually contributing to the Mfecane…
Pedi
… [baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among … Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. Together the…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… The Netherlands became known as the Batavian Republic and the ruler of the Netherlands, Prince William of Orange, … taking possession of the Dutch colonies…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… homeland, independent of British rule. The determination and courage of these pioneers has become the single most … Nationalism. However, far from being the…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… of Parliament, Cape Town, 24 May 1994 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, President of the Senate and Deputy President, Deputy Presidents, Chief Justice,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… Xhosa lived on the banks of the Buffalo River in 1686 and settled at what is now Somerset East in 1702. In the … Xhosas clans on the fringes of the…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs The Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West Province…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as providing the most poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of preventative and curative measures appear to have been implemented in … for the…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… the Soweto riots first began. Kids were restless, tense and confused. 'There is no similar record of what the African … at one of the schools recounted: .. …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… is no doubt that the behaviour of gangsters like Kortboy and Don Mattera in Sophiatown was despised by many as "anti … were a phenomenon of early British…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… in Stockholm. It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF became clearer. These were the … to take place between the two groups on…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… Medu ran units specialising in music, theatre, graphics and visual arts, photography; and "research and production" (writing). Over the eight years of its …
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and non-violent resistance to the…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… In 1912 Enoch Mgjimia , a lay preacher and independent evangelist, broke away from the Wesleyan Methodist Church and joined the Church of God and Saints of…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… Nazi Germany became a fascist country under Hitler and the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945. Here you can read about … Depression, more than any other factor,…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… short stories. [i] She was also described as a passionate and invested woman in all subjects of which she wrote. Many … historian as well. She befriended…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… the region. Large stonewalled settlements of both BaKwena and BaFokeng characterised the troubled times of the … Mzilikazi , however, depopulated the region…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… The arrival of the Europeans WHO ARE THE SAN SAN COMMUNITY AND BELIEFS SAN CUSTOMS AND RELGION SAN FOOD SAN CLOTHING SAN MEDICINE SAN ROCK ART … gatherers of…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… Cape Town at least once during the last fifty years. Young and old may recall certain portions of that unique structure, … Some visitors have retained warm…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… believe Dumile was decidedly ambiguous as to his age and birth year in order to protect himself against several … in apartheid law. His parents, Geelbooi…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… in what is now modern day Botswana. Their population grew, and spread throughout the Western half of South Africa. They were the first pastoralists in…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project … member of multiple grassroots…
ArticleTransport on land
… was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals Carts, wagons and coaches The bicycle The steam engine and the train The motor car Common forms of transport of…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… He left the country because of the continual hardships and injustices of the apartheid state. Hallett grew up in a … of Cape Town where the influences from…
ArticleThe Basotho
… In the early 1800’s there was a great deal of migration and upheaval in Southern Africa, mostly as a result of the … There were a number of conflicts between…
Liberation
… the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world to know. … of poverty in rural areas, of…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… policy. At the height of his influence, between 1963 and 1976, Steve Biko called the homelands “the greatest … Biko observed that Transkei president Kaiser…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… Pretoria Central Prison. Marcus Motaung , Jerry Mosololi and Simon Mogoerane were charged with treason, with alternative charges of terrorism, murder and…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention … on 8 January…