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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…
PlaceMasorini
… In the shock waves following the rise of the Zulu kingdom early in the 19th Century, Masorini ended as a settlement. … In the shock waves following the rise…
ArchiveBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
… life at different points. Her mother was crucial in the early years up until she passed away while Kuzwayo was still … favourite name, and one that was…
PlaceGhana
… zone indicate that the area has been inhabited since the early Bronze Age (ca. 4000 B.C.), but these societies, based … central Ghana north of the forest…
PlacePolokwane Game Reserve
… park in which to walk - make sure that you set off early morning to beat the heat. …
EventSouth Africa abandons the Gold Standard, sparking a period of economic expansion
… the birth of Orlando East, south of Johannesburg. In early 1933 the first group of families were removed from the …
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… to a camp south of Luanda in Gabela. By late October and early November 1976 other MK were brought from Tanzania and …
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… 8 years. Due to an increase in guerilla activity in the early 1980's, camps were once again lengthened in 1982 to 720 …
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… of the South African and Lesotho in the 1970s and early 1980s was fraught with friction. This was the case …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… developed deep interests in religion and politics from an early age. At the age of 14 he became a sexton Dutch …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… power was limited and his reign was interrupted twice. Early in his reign, Leabua Jonathan became Prime Minister of …
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… on 28 May 1913. Click here to read more about the early history of and resistance to passes. Click here to read …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… in 1900 helped turn the tide in the Anglo-Boer War. In the early stages of the war, the Boer Commandos were scoring …
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… in Pretoria. It was there that he began to search for early hominids, seeking more evidence of the specimens …
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… located on Ridge road on Durban's berea, was built in the early 1850's on the highest natural point on the Berea Ridge …
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…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… Young people took part in political campaigns from the early years. Many political formations established at the close of the 19th century and early in the…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… that ultimately toppled the apartheid regime in the early 1990s. This historical significance has led to claims … Gqabi , who had been released from Robben…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… The slave trade with the Portuguese continued until the early 1700s. The Akan people supplied the Portuguese with … Abomey. Dahomey began emerging as a great…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… as many as 1000 women. Writer Li Yu is an example of an early feminist, arguing that women should be equal to men. … Chinese junks were unique ships that…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Wankie was chosen as an appropriate infiltration zone. In early 1967, MK recruits were transferred from their Tanzanian … As a result, they ran out of food…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… are charged with treason in the Delmas Treason Trial . Early May, three Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation … by the UDF spread across the country’s…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… approved the scheme and on 6 April 1652 a group of 90 settlers, under the leadership of van Riebeeck, arrived at …
PlaceFugard Theatre, Cape Town
… Sacks Futeran buildings in District Six . [1] It opened in early 2010 and was named in honour of Athol Fugard , an … buildings are a combination of…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… Africa's Venuste Nshimiyimana. As of now, it’s still too early to know if this is a successful coup or merely an … the dark days of its brutal civil war. For…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… union members under increasingly difficult times in the early 1980s when Thatcher’s austerity led to cuts in local … let go. He would recount the details in…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… Century and is one of the few remaining examples of the early Wood and Iron Structures. The Vlakfontein Monument was … is in Sterkbos Street, Roodepoort and…
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 …
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… first editions of many of the writers' and dramatists' early works, and exhibits the work of many modern African … instituted in Kenya, whereby the…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… first editions of many of the writers' and dramatists' early works, and exhibits the work of many modern African … instituted in Kenya, whereby the…