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ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… 1690 (approx) This period marks the appearance of the trek Boer, a semi-nomadic Dutch farmer and cattle grazer who … of the migration out of the Cape Colony…
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… with and, in an exceptional way, dependent on foreign-Anglo American - imperialism, this group corresponds closely … gold-mining. This requirement was not…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… 12 June 1805, quoted in J.S. Marais, Maynier and the First Boer Republics (Cape Town, 1944), p. 73- William Petty, one … tradition began with W.M. Macmillan…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… to africanhistory.about.com Expanding frontiers and trade Boer responses By the beginning of the eighteenth century, … 16 December 1838, leading to the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… entered the country illegally (mostly at the time of the Anglo-Boer War) will be condoned and issued with condonation …
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… fought with great courage against the British during the Boer War and had written "A Century of Wrong", which included … of Capitalism". Smuts was known to…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… are still not allowed to own property in the two former Boer Republics (Transvaal and the Orange Free State), or to …
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
Key Words: Can Themba, Apartheid, Writer in Exile, Drum Magazine Born: 1924 Marabastad, Pretoria Died: 1968 Swaziland Education: High School, Polokwane …
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we…
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
Your Royal Highness The Lord Mayor and Mayoress My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen Esteemed guests: We feel privileged that we have the possibility to attend…
Enuga S Reddy: Meeting with SWAPO in Dar Es Salaam -1969
Mr. Peter Nanyemba, Chief Representative, said the only way to end apartheid in Namibia was to expel South Africa from Namibia. South Africa was making…
PlaceKlerksdorp- Matlosana Local Municipality
… confluence with the Vaal River . This was where the first Boer settlement in the Transvaal was found. Opposite on the …
PlacePilgrims Rest, Graskop- Mpumalanga Province
… prospectors working around 4000 claims! During the Second Boer War (11 October 1899 - 31 May 1902) the Town of …
PlaceSomerset West, Cape Helderberg
… is now owned by a subsidiary of the large mining company Anglo American, who have restored the farmhouse to its …
PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Boers during the Great Trek in the 1830's. The Boers were mostly descendants of early Dutch settlers. They undertook…
PlaceGreen Point
… for a large number of British troops as well as a camp for Boer POWs. Green Point is today a very "chic" neighbourhood …
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… We all missed HOME with poignance. The British sent their boer prisoners of war at the turn of the century to India and … sleep that night. Trinity was in…
A celebration of 70 years of ‘African Claims’ - ANC by Zizi Kodwa, 11 May 2015, South Africa
Document adopted by the ANC in 1943 following the Atlantic Charter ANC CELEBRATES THE 70 YEARS OF AFRICAN CLAIMS DOCUMENT AND DEFEAT OF FASCISM AND NAZISM We…
PlaceGauteng Province
The Area of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the North to Vereeniging in the South. Gauteng in Sotho means: 'for place of gold'…
PlaceWinterberg Mountains, Amatola
… area is steeped in a history that belongs to the Bushmen, Boer and British soldiers, and Scottish settlers. The …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee. Albert…
PlaceKathu
… primarily due to activity at the Sishen Mine , operated by Anglo American’s Kumba Iron Ore. Recently built houses at … primarily due to activity at the…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
1946 Passive Resistance Campaign Introduction ↵ An acute labour shortage forced White settlers in Natal to plead to the Indian Government to send its…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1977 the Government proposed a new constitutional…
PlaceBurundi
Burundi is a relatively small country located in central Africa, and the name and approximate territory has a continuity with the Kingdom of Burundi which was…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… relationship based the tenure of land. [....] In the Boer pastoral communities no feudal system could emerge, … The Boers fought hard for and forced Britain…
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… where the racially motivated Afrikaner republics lost the Boer War but won the peace through the machinations of …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… intellectual, journalist and activist Sol T Plaatje in his Boer War Diary: An African at Mafeking The Free State The … to its diamond mining past and the…
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…
PlaceBenin
Benin’s political history after colonialism was characterized by an early period of multiparty competition that proved unstable, and multiple interventions by…