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ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… Her life experiences, the context and inspiration of her writing, her works, and her resistance as a … military coups and counter-coups that rocked the…
ArchiveBlack Art and Artists in South Africa
… who was residing at R740, Umlazi at the time and place of the interview. Please note that the times are for guidance … Early interest in art and needlework…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… Situated at 60 Church Street, this was the home of President Paul Kruger. It was his personal property as the … in 1936, it was restored to its original form…
PlaceLebowa
… During the apartheid period, Lebowa was the homeland of the North Sotho people. It became a semi-independent national state in 1972. The territory was…
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… Present day Malawi became the British colony of Nyasaland in 1890, after aggressive diplomatic conflict … is as the country's first president. From the…
Document 35 - “New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott: Xuma’s Address to African Congress”, The Guardian, 18 December 1947
… - In his presidential address to the annual conference of the African National Congress over the weekend. Dr. A.B. … urged the African people to re-elect the…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” decided to protect … forts were to be built initially, but due to a…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Moothen had the following letter written to the Protector of…
Zulu Community
… Late nineteenth century postcard of Zulu Warriors. Note the Europeans in the background. … further north and found a new home in the Orange Free State and…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Vegetarian Congress at Ventor. February 19, Result of Matriculation examination is published. He failed Latin. … 17, Submits petition of 10 000 Indians to…
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… to co opt Indians and Coloured communities into puppet state institutions, a mass meeting was called in Lenasia, an Indian suburb south of Johannesburg. The…
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… Compensation is a Settlement 43 km North-East of Durban, on the route to Umhlali-Tongaat. The Area of Compensation got its name from Compensation Farm…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
… Paramount Chief of the Mpondomise, Mhlonthlo, lured Hamilton Hope, the third … British government defeat the Basotho during the Gun War of 1880-1881. In…
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…
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… Reynolds was born on 4 March 1934 in Bloemfontein, Free State.[i] Reynolds was nicknamed the “Grace Kelly” of South African tennis.[ii] She claimed the South…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… serious atrocities against the Black majority. A number of brutal measures were adopted by the regime to deal with … "offenders." Cases in point include the…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Worden points out that slavery “”¦became the mainstay of arable farming in the western districts, played a significant role in the functioning of Cape Town…
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… in Grade 7 Human Evolution. Darwinism Today the theory of evolution is a well supported, unifying principle in … most remembered for his contribution to how…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its … campuses, mainly white, liberal universities…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… for their cattle. The Trek Boers preferred the freedom of their ox wagons and tents to living under the rule of the DElC. Their trek brought them into…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade, and…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… was sent to the Cape to establish a station at which ships of the United Dutch Chartered East Indian Company could … Khoina. First contact with Blacks would…
France in 1789
… or society. A political revolution happens when a group of people rebel against the existing government and attempt … An economic revolution takes place when…
PlaceCabo Verde
… archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West coast of Guinea-Bissau. The first permanent settlers of the island … declared independent. Attempts at…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… this place is. They say they actually feel the vibration of the rich history that fills these walls. I have given 19 years of my life to set up a museum that…
PlaceKafanchan, Nigeria
… Found in the Southern part of the Kaduna State, which is located in the middle belt of … Kafanchan was 83 092. Kafanchan is a commercial hub in the state and…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… reserve squeezed into a valley on the south-eastern border of the Orange Free State with Lesotho. 7 His mother, Linkhapa, was a daughter of … from Moshoeshoe…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… On 11 July 1963 I was sitting in the living-room of the Liliesleaf farm -house reading Robert Junk’s Brighter … We were very inexperienced in military…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… in 1886 on the triangular site Randjeslaagte, the area of the town was nine square km. Randjeslaagte was a piece of … to his Heirs. The official Document was…