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Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
Khoisan Identity
… In his State of the Nation address on 9th February 2012, President Zuma … promise that provisions would be made ‘for the recognition of the Khoi-San…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… 1497 - 1699 1497 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da Gama sailed up the eastern seaboard of southern Africa,…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… canon, there remains an ambiguity regarding the purpose of Lucy’s rape and her decision to marry her rapist’s … thought, the paper analyses the text’s…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… Amersfoort , arrived in Table Bay with a valuable cargo of 174 slaves. Henceforth, the Cape entered the global stage of slaveholding societies. Slavery in…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… is appointed to inquire into laws concerning the right of Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. … in February 1920 to inquire into laws…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… Introduction In a democratic society, the observance of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates to chieftaincy operating on … are…
EPILOGUE
… Dear Mr De Klerk I acknowledge receipt of your reply dated 2nd July, 1992. It is unfortunate that … has not addressed the issues I raised in my memorandum of…
ArticleZulu Family History
… stabbed and shot. Mantfombi Dlamini, born 1956, daughter of Sobhuza II of Swaziland and sister of Mswati III, married 1973. A condition for this marriage …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Photograph of a Khoisan lady. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 … 1460 Portuguese navigators, representing the interests of the Portuguese Royal House…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what personal sacrifices…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… Racial Narrative Abstract This paper addresses the falsity of the cultural discourse that stresses ethnicity’s salience … ethnicity as a viable, albeit…
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… KwaMsiza is a village of 49 families located some 50km north of Pretoria. Its residents are Ndzundza Ndebele , and belong … an airport in 1953, they were…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… Race and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since … European colonisation. South Africa…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… www.historywiz.com A new absolute ruler After the fall of Robespierre in 1794, a new group of people took over the government. They were called the Directory…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in … February, At an African National Congress (ANC)…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu, Prixley Ka Isaka Seme, President of the African National Congress (ANC), Africans from different political spectrums and from all…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa women – ranging from all backgrounds and … Whites, and Blacks – staged a march on the…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… (SACP) convenes a special meeting. Apart from members of the Central Committee, leading activists of the Party, including MK cadres who experienced armed ……
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… Internet searches, where the more widespread spelling of 'Chief Luthuli' is more likely to be used by visitors. … rain. 1820s Shaka , the Zulu king, allows a…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… 1500-1800 This period is marked by the advent and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central … reluctance to work for them, they…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… their conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted … demands. January13, Gokhale wrote to…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches , first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… 1961 and the Rivonia arrests in July 1963 was a period of preparation for both sides, revealing nothing of the turmoil that was to follow. With some…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… 1910 The establishment of the Union of South Africa consolidates white rule over the territories … is founded on racial segregation and disenfranchisement of…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view Where is the … but have played little part in the…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1971 Statement by OR Tambo to the People of South Africa on the 10th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe . 16 December 1971 1972 " Speech by Oliver Tambo on the…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an important development for South African …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth" (Plaatjie, S.T. (1916). Native Life in South Africa, London: PS King, p.21.) With the…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in … Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed response of the state saw thousands…