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ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… Door IBALELO - Used to signify a roof timber spanning from post to post, or from roof beam to roof beam, and could mean either a … therefore stands as a…
ArticleBambatha Rebellion 1906
… armed campaign to suppression the challenge to British colonial rule. The protest and subsequent armed rebellion … to accept a new tax that was being…
BiographyJan van Eck
… obtaining a BA degree majoring in geography and history in 1964, a secondary teachers' diploma in 1965 and a …
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… This led him to explore related issues such as the social history of tuberculosis and the social causes of …
BiographySimon Nkabinde
… He claimed that black Americans were unconscious of their history and needed to learn to appreciate their roots of …
Janet Burnside Soga
… to be ordained to the Christian ministry. Scottish social history shows that, just prior to this period, many weavers …
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
… Party on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, to write a history of the Party. The outcome, his book, Fifty Fighting …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… further below. South Africa has experienced a long history of forcible removal of people as the result of racist … apartheid was implemented and was already…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… Thambi Naidoo as one of the most important figures in the history of the Satyagraha Campaign in South Africa. In 1912, … Naidoo must ever remain as one of…
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… : 349 Albert Road Woodstock 7925 Cape Town, South Africa Postal Address P O Box 137 Observatory 7935 Cape Town Email …
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… in 1960, he returned to his home country. Unhappy with his post- colonial new reality, Kourouma expressed his grievances …
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… 11 TOTAL 121 Source: http://www.southafrica.to/history/history.html 1929 Elections: The last “white males only” … up by increasing levels of black militancy…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… indicated violence involved in death and family denied any history of epilepsy. Late 84/early 85 Korotsoane, Tatlheho … Sipho (20) COSAS Odendaalsrus Died…
Griqua community
… The Griqua people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, however their history had an important influence on the history and … Free…
ArticleZulu
… early as the eleventh century - see South Africa's general history timeline . Language, culture and beliefs: The Zulu … group. The word Zulu means "Sky" and…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in the Year of the Jameson Raid. It’s a House filled with History and the Personalities of the Original family … for 121 years is a miracle; the vicissitudes…
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
… around Zoo Park at lunchtime, tourists funnel through Post St Mall admiring African curios and taxis whizz around … Memorial Museum (IMM) is dedicated to the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
… Cartoon, Gask. The Same Boat, an anon. correspondent. Diary of a Detainee, ‘Tandi’. The Birth of African …
BiographyElliot Shabangu
… members of the youth movement in the Transvaal on the history of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the … People and Freedom Charter: Transvaal”…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
… his Master of Arts in African politics and a PhD in history. The title of his thesis was “The Development of …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… the find. Griqua chief Waterboer’s claim was backed by the Colonial Secretary, Richard Southey, and a British arbitrator …
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… you.” As an anti-Zionist Jew, he came to view Israel’s colonial-racism as akin to apartheid South Africa. In 1953 …
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… most their political and economic independence and the post-war systems left Black, Coloured and Indian people … were very strained. The pro-white policies…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… crucial weapons in defeating the apartheid government. Post-Apartheid ANC Gilder explains that there is much … the post-apartheid ANC, but to contribute to…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.4 Jul-Sept 1960
… W. Blyden. The Algerian War, Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Tunis Diary, Catherine Hoskyns. A Manner of Speaking, J. Arthur …
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary that a school for slaves has been started. …
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… for the event, was sung. In 1994, this iconic day in history was deemed to become National Woman’s Day. However, … frontline of this significant occasion in…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… the Voortrekker youth movement and the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria . Six schools were named after … private papers are kept in the Institute…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… of the 20th century became the site of conflict between Colonial Administrators and autonomous African chiefdoms. The … the independent Zulu kings left the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Introduction
… This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior … would not have occurred. By highlighting…