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ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… to land-ownership in the country. With his book The Past and Future of the Kaffir Races (1866), W. C. Holden was one … settlement in South Africa Holden…
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… Stories and Interviews as oral histories Stories or ‘oral histories’ … from one generation to the next through storytelling and reciting epic poems. The…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… missionaries to southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played a strangely ambiguous role in the history and affairs of the region. On…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… vehemently fought apartheid from both within South Africa and outside in exile. Klug believed that South Africa was in … in the student press union,…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… amongst themselves. By 1914 all of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia, was under colonial rule. Today, African … independent of their former European…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Significantly, the National Party, … was renamed the New National Party (NNP), was…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act No 6: Commenced: 25 March 1991 QwaQwa: Immorality…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 1: Local History
… People learn and are influenced by the places and the people around them. In a country like South Africa, … learned from stories told to them by their proud…
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. It lasted until the 20th century. The Ottoman Empire was a rich and powerful…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… South Africa. The Union is founded on racial segregation and disenfranchisement of black people except for a small … South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of…
The appointment of Judges
… In June 1994, Arthur Chaskalson, senior counsel and the national director of the Legal Resources Centre, was … President Nelson Mandela, in consultation with…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… This article was written by Skylar Jayes and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project … The Federation of South African…
ArticleKey sites
… area. These included Simon’s Cafe, Goodwill Lounge, owned and run by Pompie Naidoo who brought overseas and local jazz musicians to perform there. Patel’s…
Doing Oral History
… History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator was Dr Wassermann from the University of KZN Compiled, collated, edited and…
Grade 4 Archive
… of African people are converted to Christianity every day and in Nigeria about 20 new religious sects or groups come … from all over the world observe the…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… mineworkers who took part in unprotected strike were shot and killed by the officers of the South African Police … This was the culmination of the preceding…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… mineworkers who took part in unprotected strike were shot and killed by the officers of the South African Police … This was the culmination of the preceding…
Tsonga
… coast, up to the Sabie River, which flows through Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Tsonga groups also live in the Lydenburg, Soutpansberg, and Waterberg districts of…
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… of people with Mosima Sexwale are taken by two cars a Fiat and a Soviet-origin vehicle to Dar es Salaam Airport where … he has people he would like to be…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… Anglo Natalians. At last, after the discussion of years and the extinction of hopes innumerable, the planters' pet … the immigration of Coolies, as a piece…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… has enshrined gender equality within the constitution and has given women ‘unprecedented political and legal equality’ (Albertyn, 2003, p604). Yet despite…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… to forge differences between the experience of African and white women. African men were no longer part of the … of time, working under contract on the mines…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… The leadership takeover of Indian politics by younger and more progressive generation led to the formation of the … was a successor of the Transvaal Indian…
ArticleIndia, Mughal Empire, 16-19th Century
… The Mughal India 1526-1858 The Mughal Empire: government and society The Moghuls were a powerful Muslim family who came from lands that are today part of…
Conclusion: Treks & Land conflicts 1600s - 1800s
… It is clear that frontiers were changed and shifted according to various circumstances and for many different reasons during the 19th century. … colonisation…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… & governance liberation struggle emerging nationalism and socialist resistance 1900-1959 1900-1959 … Africa through postcards …
Mission Stations - N-S
… the Mission at this place, which had long been abandoned, and from a warm and copious spring which rises among some granite rocks, a … at this time, of the…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… of the nineteenth century racial division was extended and entrenched in the education system. For example, in 1893 … white pupils qualified to receive…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… called A.W. Leslie went to collect taxes from the Hlongwa and Cele clans in the Silverstream district. The Hlongwas … where they were each sentenced to a…