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Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… South African art at an official and national level. Its early membership was surprisingly broadly- based, featuring … from our disadvantaged communities is…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… decolonisation swept across the African continent, in the early 1960s African liberation movements in countries that … as a central strategy of the…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… takes us, however, into a different direction. While this early school was extremely oppressive, we have, in this first … notably, comes the first formal…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… Since the early 1990s, June 16, now known as Youth Day, has been … memorialising the June 16 Soweto uprising started in the early 1980s. One of the projects…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… were presented to the British Resident by the uSuthu. Early in 1883 Cetshwayo was reinstalled as king, but his … envisaged for the kingdom could be put into…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… of Kongo was made a vassal state to Portugal, and in the early 1900s it was formally integrated into the Portuguese colony in Angola [iii] . Early history…
ArticleBattle of Blood River 1838
… In the early hours of the morning of 16 December 1838, a battle was …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… the Chapman in Algoa Bay, which brings the first English settlers to the Eastern Cape. This was followed by the ships … in Algoa Bay, bringing the first of a…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… most important developments in indigenous jazz took place. Early beginnings In the 1920s and 1930s the urban culture of … and 50s With the removal of the…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… list, it will be more fully developed in the future. Early newspapers Dutch and Afrikaans newspapers emerged early in the 19th century, with De Verzamelaar …
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (see timeline) and the origin of Aids and HIV has … might have been introduced to…
Prehistory of the Nelspruit area
… both may have first appeared in the Nelspruit area in the early 17th century. Other African farmers lived below the … life outside the house. Places such as…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Bloemfontein
… played an important role in the Province during the early years of the 19th century as it became the meeting …
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… Nationalism in South Africa. History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa The Empty Land Myth The …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… point of the relationship between the British and Dutch settlers was the issue of labour. With the end of slavery in … influential in this regard was Dr…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… the municipality was forced to shelve its plans. Early in the 1930s the situation changed in the … for a housing scheme in Orlando. By the end of 1931 and…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… mid-60s the activities of the TIC had declined and by the early 1970s it was virtually non-existent. The organization … mid-60s the activities of the TIC had…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… contributed to the development of Afrikaans: the European settlers , the indigenous Khoikhoi and slaves from African … the Cape. [48] ‘Cape of Good Hope’…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… metal tools, archaeologists call this time the Iron Age. Early Iron Age (AD 300-900) people chose to live in broken … and Nguni speakers lived in East Africa…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… the mood of the country might be favorable, the PAC by early 1960 was asserting, first, that many people had taken … PAC's outlook. As we have seen, the…
Grade 5 Archive
… citizens can participate in a democracy will be explored. Early civilisations In various parts of the world, different …
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… Colony encouraged immigration from Cape Town , and, in the early 1700s, independent farmers, called trekboers, began to … expansion to the north was…
Bloemfontein - segregation in education
… This perception restricted educational development in the early years of the Free State. However, in 1895, legislation … and Industrial School for younger…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… Weinberg, politics always surrounded Sheila and at an early age she was involved in illegal work, painting slogans … after the banning of the ANC and SACP…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… integrated them into their own societies). · How early African farmers lived in settled chiefdoms - 10 hours … boys and girls (Children were…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… about 2 to 3.3 million years ago. There is also proof of early stone-age, middle stone-age, later stone-age, early and late iron-age and modern people…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Khoi inhabitants were dispossessed at the Cape by European settlers under the leadership of Jan Van Riebeeck, when the … the dispossession of indigenous…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 1: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… by cattle, gold and ivory in these societies. During the early days of the last millennium several great Iron Age …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1940-1948
… 1940 - 1948 1942 August 9, Gandhi is arrested in the early hours of the morning under the Defence of India Rules …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had … young and old to indignity and inferior status. From the early twentieth century, schools…