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ArticleThe Basotho
… 1800’s there was a great deal of migration and upheaval in Southern Africa, mostly as a result of the Mfecane. There were a … cultural identities of various…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1983 Repealed by the Constitution of Republic of South Africa Act No 200 of 1993 1980 Gazankulu: Divorce Act No 7: … State President. 1980 1 April, A summit…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… Anti Apartheid Movement protesting British Arms to South Africa, Source: African Activist Archive The AAM developed … Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) and in 1973…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… to understand deep structural barriers that prevent South Africa’s achievement of desperately needed socio-economic … negotiations on the future of the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… South Africa successfully held its first democratic elections in … Develop a prosperous , balanced regional economy in Southern Africa; and Democratise the…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… an interest in politics and joins the Society of Young Africa , which is part of the Non-European Unity Movement … holiday. Thabo predicts to Vladmir Shubin,…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… 16 marks the commemoration of National Youth Day in South Africa. This is the day the country reflects on the massacre … incident triggered widespread…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent. South Africa has eight designated official sites: uKhahlamba … to agro-pastoralism. Konso Cultural Landscape …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… Introduction South Africa, called by some people the 'Rainbow Nation', a title … is enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa . South…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… based in Rustenburg, in the North West province of South Africa. The town was established in 1870 and later expanded … than crop farming. Men migrated from…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… War deeply affected the newly independent countries in Africa and the liberation struggles in southern Africa from the 1960s until the 1990s, when the Union…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and … social critic of the day. Regarded as one of the leading Southern African female writers of…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… As Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans for many centuries … incognita that is unknown litter these maps. For Europeans Africa could be seen as the…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… population With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. … neighbours. This wave of displacement spread…
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
… in rock art. Shipwrecks are very prevalent around Africa’s southern coast, particularly around the Cape. Cape … have seen that 38 nationalities are…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth century, there was a general…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… "open universities" except the University of South Africa and Natal Medical School. 24 January, Rioting by … domestic jurisdiction. August, The Christian…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 1: The world around 1600
… major super powers which played a significant role in Southern Africa’s development. For topic one, which is The World … 2015]| Mother Earth Travel (2014),…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… due to the introduction of the merino sheep in South Africa. Although already introduced in the Cape in 1795, it … increasingly wanted domination over…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… describes a period of widespread chaos and disturbance in southern Africa during the period between 1815 and about 1840. In … In 1820, Moshoeshoe became…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… an advocate and a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era outside the country, by … [xxiii] Ngakane served as Regional…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia are recognized as … when Lord Frederick Lugard amalgamates…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia are recognized as … when Lord Frederick Lugard amalgamates…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… One of the reasons linked to colonial expansion in Africa and Asia was trade and the search for new markets. The … trade flourished off the coast of West and…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… is heritage? What are heritage resources? What are South Africa's World Heritage Sites? Investigating heritage … are shell beads that were found in Blombos…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… Hartbeesfontein. The creation of a built environment in southern Africa's rural areas is not merely the provision of shelter: … symbolic role in the creation…
ArticleThe San
… The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also known as …
ArticlePoqo
… to the injustice of the White minority state of South Africa, but Poqo proved more dangerous at the time. Its … (1976-1983) In the 1960s there were conflicts…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… book The Hollander Afrikaners and their Republic in South Africa , published in Amsterdam in 1854, describes the … to hold a thousand congregants, added to…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… South African nationality, the right to work in South Africa etc. Assent gained: 26 March 1970; commencement date … four-day visit during which cooperation…