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ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… were victorious. Later, the day was commemorated as part of the Afrikaner nationalist project. This article traces … wrote a history of the Afrikaners, Die…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… purpose for which the people had been conquered and their land confiscated. We have said that the establishment of … and who, as High Commissioner, paved the…
A Helots’ Bill of Rights
… African Communist Party Documents. 1923 A Helots’ Bill of Rights First Published: Editorial in The International, … descent, must associate himself with…
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… his high school career Coetsee attended the University of the Orange Free State where he completed his BA and LLB in … small claims court and pioneering the…
BiographyMaema Matlala
… (moÅ¡ate). He was arrested in 1952, served a jail sentence of three months, and was then allowed to return to gaMatlala. He was arrested for opposing Native…
BiographyViola Hashe
… In the early 1950s she was elected Assistant Secretary of the Chemical Workers Union and the Dairy Workers Union. … with deportation under Section 29 of the…
BiographyElmon Malele
… in 1943, and stayed in Alexandra township. He was one of the residents forcibly removed by the apartheid regime to … In 1961, he was charged under the…
The appointment of Judges
… Chaskalson, senior counsel and the national director of the Legal Resources Centre, was appointed as President of the Constitutional Court by President…
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
… private boy’s school. Hansie graduated as the head of his class after completing his matriculation in 1987. An … airport, the pilots lost visibility and were…
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… The formation of the VOC in Netherlands in 1602 increased Dutch dominance … company expanded Dutch influence by taking possession of land, expanding trade…
BiographyBasil Paul Petersen February
… Basil February was born in District Six in 1944.The son of clerk and a midwife. His family moved around several … landed February in prison twice under the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… proud to say that, among others, Mahatma Gandhi, the great native son of India and, at the same time a beloved son of … of the Asiatic Bill and the Transvaal…
Siva Pillay
… attack in Natal on 16 December 1961. However, due to one of their members (Bruno Mtolo), a police spy, the group of 19 … betrayed and subsequently charged…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… (the company owned by the Gupta family) sign a memorandum of understanding with the Samajwadi Party government headed … tasked with the defence of democracy,…
BiographyFanele Mbali
… appealing and adopted it instead. Mbali was the main stem of the Mkhonto family tree line. He spent the first four years of his life at Eqolweni where he…
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… chiefdoms were small in size and people did not regard land as property. This resulted in fairly harmonious … Some scientists say this was helped by the…
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… as early as 1909: "A satyagrahi must be afraid neither of imprisonment nor of deportation. He must neither mind … in bitter cold; A. Narayanaswami, who was…
BiographySir George Grey
… George Grey was the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Grey of the 30th Foot. His father was … Grey immediately turned his attention to the struggle for land on…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… APPEAL TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC ABOUT THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1913 by John Langalibalele Dube President, South African …
BiographyErnest Sedumedi Moloto
… Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at … the Stofberg Gedenkskool (Stofberg Memorial School) of the…
BiographySidney Percival Bunting
… Sidney Percival Bunting was born on 29 June of 1873 in London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the … decision that South…
Potlako Leballo
… in 1924 near Mafeteng, Basutoland (now Lesotho), the son of an Anglican minister. In 1940, while a student at … his age and enlisted in a non-European…
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers in the Limpopo Province east of the Kalahari Desert. It is far bigger than similar sites … the word "imbabwe", which is the Shona…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
… George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal … he was banned for five years. Apart from being a member of the Natal…
Stephen Marais
… was a physicist and an agnostic and a civil servant most of his life but his upset with the disparities and … of Apartheid made a huge impact on my outlook…
BiographyRichard Steele
… in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very … volunteer in township soup kitchens at the…
BiographyAndries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
… in the district. He became interested in the planning of the Great Trek and even went on a preliminary trip to the … on the orders of Zulu King Dingane …
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… as “the half-caste community that was a byproduct of the early contact between black and white.” His father, … we had proof that the rest of the white…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… Map Description 1554 The earliest obtainable map of the whole continent of Africa. Because it was issued with … spelled “Unyamuezi” or “Unyamwezi,”…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
… Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his … Jarsa as a boy, he never suspected the extraordinary…