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The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… Thomas Pringle, who had come out with the 1820 Settlers, became the spearhead during Somerset’s time. Philip … activity, namely, the subjugation of the…
PlaceNamaqualand
… species which make a short but spectacular appearance early in Spring, after good Winter rains have fallen. These … are able to survive for long periods…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… of sixty-nine black demonstrators, she was influenced very early in her life to becoming an activist. By the end of … BCM, Madlala-Routledge became…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who Escaped from Prison in South Africa, Lusaka, 2 January 1980
… the middle of the struggle and would not like to talk too early... …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.3 Sep-Oct 1980
… Dilemmas of a Writers Group by Mogorosi Motshumi, THE EARLY YEARS Es'kia Mphahlele and Noel Manganyi, WOMAN WRITERS …
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… of the present building which was opened in 1896. In the early years of the 1900's it became mainly a social club and …
EventMuhammad Ali defeats Charles Liston in the World heavyweight title fight
… six days a week. During schooldays, he woke up in the early hours so that he could go running and then would go …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… and U Thant, both Secretaries General of the UN in the early to mid 1960s, were opposed to Lumumba and may have …
EventMoroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni
… part of Morocco, the Rif area, was ceded to Spain. Early twentieth century opposition to French and Spanish rule …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… Wars feature, to read more about the Matabele Wars and the early history of the Ndebele people and …
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… in the door in the U.S. entertainment scene and by the early 1960s she was performing in New York City nightclubs. … on the struggles faced by African…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… By the early 1980s, the Congress movement was becoming established … A new wave of witchcraft accusations and killings in early 1994 saw 70 people killed…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… was established as an effective political force by the early 1970s, and by 1972 it had achieved a success that made … all of them defining themselves as …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… Prison singing the ‘Red Flag’ (the official anthem of early socialist and communists in South Africa). Samuel Long, … the first Annual Conference of the YCL,…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… pass book, they were at risk of being arrested. In the early years, these laws applied mainly to men, and when the … in an attempt to control the Black…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… Black people in South Africa. However, the 1950s and the early 1960s, showed the intension by the South African … of the Abyssinian campaign and a 'desert…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… place in this street. I remember in the late 1980’s to early 90’s when the fight between IFP(Inkatha Freedom Party) … LD: I can’t exactly remember, mzukulu!…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… of time. We refer to these first farmers as people of the Early Iron Age. Archaeologists have found plenty of evidence at many Early Iron Age sites of trade…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… constitutions. Happily, the fervour and fanaticism of the early 1990s have now spent themselves and we should be able …
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… legendary leader. When the Ledwaba entered the area in the early 19th century, they found the Sebietela to the south and …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… years in 1930, the ICU disintegrated and died out in the early 1930s. (article: The decline and fall of the ICU - A …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… Connie”. She had come to the Congress movement in the early 1950s and had recently become the Transvaal secretary … of Bantu education”.65 They set out in a…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… International outreach, UN partnership While most of the early 1960s trials were indirectly funded by Canon Collins in … London office had never made a…
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… studying, especially subjects like mathematics, and at the early age of 19 he became an assistant at a school. He went …
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… completed his MPhil in Politics. He started poetry in his early twenties. Gwala published his poems, essays and short …
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… by briefly tracing the community's struggles from the early 1860s, against the racist laws that targeted them, …
EventThe first Cape to Rio yacht race takes place
… challenge. Unfortunately she sheared a main rudder post early in the race. The 3 600 nautical mile race has been …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… In early 1966 John Lennon was reading about Christianity and …
EventAbram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates
… on 16 November 1964. Fischer then went underground early in 1965 and eluded the security police until his arrest …
EventExplorer and navigator Vasco da Gama completes his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to India
… son of an explorer, however little else is known about his early life. Da Gama was said to have been educated in the …