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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…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… is announced that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), Dan S. … in the same connection. 13…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… things to different people. Some people relate to the idea of heritage in a personal way, whilst others see it as having … significance. In this section, we…
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…
ArticleThe San
… The San populated South Africa long before the arrival of the Bantu-speaking nations, and thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. Language,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… 1. Introduction ↵ The value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors and clues of the past that lead up to one particular moment, event…
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… / african.pictures The 1976 Soweto riots ushered in an era of increased confrontation between the state and political organisations fighting for liberation…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
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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 …
'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…
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…
Mission Stations - G-H
… station was reportedly burned down during Sekhukhuni's war of resistance against the British, in 1880. It was located on … Alexander Merensky reported as…
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)…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… The participation of young people in the liberation struggle preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the establishment of the African National…
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…
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…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, oppression, and…
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 ……
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Regular elections have been a feature of South Africa’s political landscape since the establishment of Union of South Africa in 1910. With the adoption of…