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The Dutch and the Khoisan
… granted a monopoly to trade with Asia by the government of the Netherlands. Jan van Riebeeck Source: … images/jan.jpg Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Prehistory of Southern Africa Farming people did not inhabit the Greater … also lived in the region. Large stonewalled settlements of both BaKwena and…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… heritage month, when the histories and cultural practices of all its peoples are celebrated and due recognition given … and women who have contributed to the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first Europeans set foot on South African … 4 to 1.5 million years ago. 3 000 000…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … oppressions in the workplace during the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important … and economic. During the Cold War, South Africa was of strategic importance in the…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… The reaction of the outside world to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a … in the United Kingdom (UK), Holland and the…
Pedi
… the Nguni and Sotho account for the largest percentage of the total Black population. The major Sotho groups are the … and Sepedi Northern Sotho, or Sesotho…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which … or term Nguni is the collective name for ethnic…
ArticleXhosa
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into … from Swaziland and adjacent areas and the…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the conflict … movements against each other…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… General Smuts signing the agreement at the first meeting of the UN General Assembly. Source: P. Joyce (2000), … territory many Afrikaners felt closer to the…
Indian immigrants engaged in non-sugar growing activities
… From the outset a large number of Indians were employed in non-sugar growing activities. A … was tea growing, which according to the Clayton Report of 1909…
The National Flag
… on 27 April 1994. The design and colours are a synopsis of principal elements of the country's flag history. Individual colours, or colour … therefore no…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, their history had an important influence on the history and development of the Orange…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of resistance in the country. Its solution was to arrest key people and charge sixteen of them for…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , the Apartheid government was … pressured by growing political resistance to the…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
… simple idea. It can be considered to be made up of the practices and traditions that are passed on from … traditions. Yet heritage also includes that which…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… 1924 E.S. Reddy is born in a small village of Pallapalli in India to E.V. Narasa Reddy, a Gandhian who … 1943 E.S. Redy receives his B. A. from the…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a … ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… The destruction of the Zulu kingdom 1879 -1896 In the 1870s settler and … labour. These societies attempted to resist the extension of colonial control over…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… the outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such as Zimbabwe and Namibia, … freeze in time all that has gone before. In…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
ArticleThe New Group
… This was a group or collective of young South African artists who, upon their return from … values propounded by the South African Society of Artists. At the…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… When? The first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (see timeline) and the origin of Aids and HIV has puzzled scientists ever…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had banished … not imprisoned by…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… investigates the ways in which the politics and culture of the Boer Republics clashed with the modernising thrust of the Uitlanders on the rapidly growing…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… in technology, but also changes in the social structures of societies, manufacturing, transport and agriculture. This … the Industrial Revolution in Britain,…
National Land Committee
… Programme should address the racially based dispossession of all forms of land rights that occurred after 1913. Government should … acknowledge that certain…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… , Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era ended in 1994, and people hoped … is now called the Marikana massacre , when…