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The War
… On 9 October 1899 the SAR issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October the war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. The…
The CASA Conference
… the Culture in Another South Africa (CASA) conference and festival in Amsterdam on 14 - 19 Dec 1987. The CASA … of the African National Congress’s Department…
ArticleGreater St. Lucia Wetland
… Site. It was declared on 1 December 1999 by Unesco and is South Africa's third largest park. It stretches from … towns of St Lucia, Mtubatuba, Hluhluwe,…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… lobby group which represents many traditional leaders and chiefs in South Africa. It seeks to work with the South … the African National Congress (ANC)…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… Joshua Richman Joshua Richman is a final year English and Politics student at the University of York. From October … on the means through which literature…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… in 1979 by students from five black universities and one college of education. AZASO, which was formed under … to be a different organisation that adopted…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… history is derived from its obligation to view all factors and clues of the past that lead up to one particular moment, event or action and to give it…
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… Foundation. Founded by renowned documentary photographer and artist David Goldblatt in 1989, it was originally created … as a space to provide further…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and conditions under which Black rural people live. The … Africa in the hinterland…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… empires, which includes China as a world power in the 14th and 15th centuries; Songhai, an African empire during the 15th and 16th Centuries, and the Indian…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… in the country. Its solution was to arrest key people and charge sixteen of them for treason and contravention of the Internal Security Act. The sixteen ……
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… 1961 FNLA and MPLA begin a guerrilla campaign to overthrow Portuguese … resulting in the infiltration of several SADF forces and a clash between the South…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… in 1994. Undertaking a census is a massive exercise and involves collecting, compiling, and analysing demographic, economic and social data about all persons…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… of Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Principe and Angola. The Armed Forces Movement (AFM) had overthrown … Angola attained official…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and South African History Online (SAHO) are hosting this conference on the history and politics of…
The Mountain Committee
… of resistance arose amongst the people in March 1960, and although meetings were illegal, they were held just the same and attended by thousands of peasants,…
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… Congress: surprised because this is something unusual and because you have no connexion with the African National … Congress. The African National Congress…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… segregation Segregated city Conclusion Once the fort and the early settlement were established at the Cape, … of exclusion began to emerge as settlers drew…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… On 9 October 1899 the SAR issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October the war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. The…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Colony by the VOC in its desire to boost the agriculture and food supply while retaining control in the new … in the functioning of Cape Town as a centre of…
National Land Committee
… were dispossessed of their land rights before 1913 and should address this through a comprehensive land reform programme OBJECTIVES OF RESTITUTION AND FORMS…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… protests action. The student protests at universities and universities of technology were led by the student … (NSFAS).NSFAS is the South African government…
Mandela: Message to India
… a message in his capacity as the President of South Africa and another in his capacity as the President of the African … many decades - a thread woven during…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… The San © www.safrica.info In the late 17th and early 18th century the Dutch at the Cape Colony only had contact with the Khoikhoi and San peoples. The Dutch…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… the founders of the kingdom were KiKongo speaking people, and the spelling of Congo with a C comes from the Portuguese … political marriage of Nima a Nzima,…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… immigration into Natal brought with it strained relations and severe problems and conflicts between the White colonists and the new arrivals. Within a decade…
ArticlePoqo
… to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) during the 1960's and was known for its aggressively violent sabotage campaign. … we Sizwe , Poqo made no effort to…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and economic power in the area shifted to Great Zimbabwe and this area took control of the Indian…
ArticleKhoisan herder society in the Later Stone Age
… Herder societies are also known as pastoral societies and were also nomadic, like hunter-gatherers. They kept domesticated animals and generally lived in…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… 1948 May 26 , The National Party (NP) wins election and immediately introduces apartheid (separateness) measures against Blacks, Indian immigrants and those…