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ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
Introduction The South African War of 1899-1902 was essentially a 'White mans' war, fought to determine which white authority had real power in South Africa…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) conference in Johannesburg. Boesak…
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
DECEMBER 2019 31 December – Wuhan, in the Hubei province of China, informs its regional World Health Organization (WHO) office of a pneumonia outbreak, the…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
Nelspruit lies in the Lowveld, in the valley of the Crocodile River just below the great eastern escarpment of the Transvaal. Long before it acquired a…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
The Pretoria region was initially occupied by the southern Ndebele people, led by Chief Musi. They inhabited this area about 300 to 400 years ago. The period…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
2009 marked 100 years since Yusuf Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, West Rand on 5 September. Today, he like many activists of the South African socialist…
ArticleHostel Dwellers Association (HDA)
The idea of forming an association was discussed in the Nyanga hostel. The discussion were given impetus by the 1981 decision by the local authority to grant…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
A. The Mineral Revolution ↵ In this section we will briefly discuss the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand and the Gold Rush. We will also discuss how…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced arrest, detention…
Grade 10 Archive
This archive features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. The Slave Trade: One of the most controversial issues regarding…
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 Mfecane. There were a number of conflicts…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
The outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Cape Town appears to have given a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of preventative and…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
The struggle for a shorter workday, a demand of major political significance for the working class dates back to the 1800s. On 7 October 1884, the Federation…
ArticleThe Western Front
At the outbreak of the First World War, Germany put into operation the Schlieffen Plan. This plan was based on the assumption that in case of a war breaking…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
Impact of the 1913 Land Act Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
According to the EFF’s publication ‘The Coming Revolution’, Julius Malema had earned the title of Commander-in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters when he…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
South Africans went to the polls on 8 May 2019 in a general election considered the most important since the dawn of democracy in 1994. The ruling African…
ArticleAll African Convention, 1958
'The All-African Convention: The Awakening of a people' - By I.B. Tabata Bloemfontein also played host to yet another important meeting which was held in…
Mission Stations - M
MAASDORP, Stockenstrom, Cape: UC. Believed to have acted as an outstation only. MABAALSTAD, also known as EMMAUS, Transvaal: HM 1868 MABETSHA, Ngqeleni,…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising that is also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt. It occurred during a period of economic depression…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
How is the South African Government dealing with the aids epidemic? In 1987, the apartheid government recognized that HIV and AIDS had the potential to…
ArticleSweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU)
The Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU) was established in 1974 with the help of the Urban Training Project (UTP). Amongst its founder members…
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
This catalogue and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising artists and the "advancement of art" in…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
The Freedom Charter was not adopted immediately by the ANC. The executives of the four organisations of the Congress Alliance met at the beginning of August…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to confine them to the…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
The first farmers in southern Africa were Bantu-speakers and archaeology shows that they entered southern Africa between 2 000 and 1 700 years ago This topic…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
Within 37 African countries, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent…
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…