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Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Bibliography
… 1980. Carton, Benedict. Blood from your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa . … Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… earlier movement of African migrants in search of work in colonial labour markets was greatly accelerated . As the … on their land and encroached on African…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… in cities and mines became one of the only ways to pay colonial taxes and survive. With the hardening of White … Land dispossession lies at the heart of…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… in cities and mines became one of the only ways to pay colonial taxes and survive. With the hardening of White … Land dispossession lies at the heart of…
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… The colonial history of Equatorial Guinea dates back to 1471 when … Guinea Gains Independence from Spain’ from African History [online] Available at www…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… 19 days from the date of its commission. On 24 April the Colonial Secretary visited Port Elizabeth, where he was … at that centre, operations in connection…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… popular culture and it is important to understand its history and significance within the broader South African … to describe it as well as its relevance to…
EventThe longest state of emergency in Kenya ends
… had lasted from 1952-1959, probably the longest in the history of Kenya, came to an end. The state of emergency was … EvelynBaring, due to the Mau Mau…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… and resistance, and the white settlers demanded that the colonial government take action to deal with it. In February … by Chakijana kaGezindaba, Bambatha…
PlaceNqamakwe
… missionaries. Realising the need for an education in the colonial economy they were now attempting to enter, they … to collect funds and to lay down the…
PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
… is, with the exception of the Castle, the oldest military establishment in South Africa. Its history has long been neglected. Unfortunately, the original …
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
… was created to facilitate international cooperation in the establishment of meteorological and related services and … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern…
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South Africa, the … river. Port Elizabeth, now known as…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… strategic alliances with South Africa and the last two colonial governments on the sub continent, Angola and … by now. References: Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… reasons. He wanted Africans to learn about their own history and culture: “We thought this kind of material that … Tladi also describes issues relating to…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… as a source of cheap labour for the white-controlled Natal colonial agricultural economy. The list can be searched by: … one's ancestors - Often serial…
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… most culturally sophisticated empires in medieval world history. Founded by the Mandinka warrior-king Sundiata Keita … rulers of Mali, none left a more…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… Central Business District Within months of its establishment, Johannesburg experienced a surge of building … century, it was regarded as a stronghold of…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON RECEIVING THE FREEDOM OF PIETERMARITZBURG Pietermaritzburg, 25 April 1997
… its very names your city evokes powerful currents of our history: the spirit that brought the Voortrekkers to this … the Royal Kraal of Dingane, lost to…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… of Johannesburg. There for the first time in South African history black and white jazz musicians could meet on a … is for others, for the liberation of my…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of the Defiance Campaign. The campaign led to the establishment of numerous local Congress of the People … it attempted to do what had never been done before…
Independent Electoral Commission
… settlement in South Africa resulted inter alia in the establishment of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) … the interim constitution of 1993 and…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… general secretary. The aim of the KCA was to address the colonial challenges faced by the Kikuyu. In 1929, Kenyatta … He was later linked to the Mau-Mau…
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
… CARTER (eds), From protest to challenge: a documentary history of African politics in South Africa, 1882-1964. … CARTER (eds), From protest to challenge:…
BiographyAbraham H. de Vries
The South African writer, Abraham Hermanus de Vries, was born on Tuesday the 9th of February, in 1937, in a small town and agricultural centre of the western…
BiographyJabu Sithole
Jabu Sithole was born on 23 October 1949 in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) where he attended primary school until age seven when he was struck…
BiographyPeter Sexford Magubane
… Zindzi Mandela),1978 and “Black Child” in 1982. Since the establishment of the new democracy he has stopped covering …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… career, Du Bois was an advocate for the study of African history and culture. In the early twentieth century, he was … was Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, who…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… to look back at more than 100 years of motoring History with its unique and exciting collection of vehicles, … of the Museum's Collection took place in 1974,…
PlaceKenya
… faces a number of domestic and regional problems. Early History Prior to the arrival of Arab settlers, the area in … eventually captured the coastal regions…