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EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe refuses to end the Katanga secession
… government. The secession was supported by most White settlers in the province who would benefit the most from …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… Many female convicts became domestic servants to the free settlers, but some were forced into prostitution. Many men were handed to the free settlers to work…
EventThe historic Tana Baru Muslim cemetery is forced to close
… where some of the earliest and most respected Muslim settlers of South Africa were buried, was closed in terms of …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the Cape in the 17th century. Modern …
EventDr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… White people saw him fall out of favour with the White settlers. Van der Kemp had a rich background in philology …
PlaceTembisa Township, Midrand
… ‘tembisa’ meaning ‘promise’. It came about, when Black Settlers of Johannesburg were being Evicted . When the …
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… other instances of protest and resistance, and the white settlers demanded that the colonial government take action to …
Mission Stations - A-F
… of South Africa, except on the banks of the Orange River". ALBANY , Cape: WMS 1821. This does not appear to have been … of this name to have been established…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… degradation and changes in the global climate. Settlers from southeast Asia and later, from the east African … Banana and rice cultivation are introduced by…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… in the castle at the time were generally very poor, for settlers and slaves alike. But whereas some measures would … been put in place to protect the health…
PlaceAndalusia, Cape and Transvaal Border
… as potentially dangerous by the authorities. The first Settlers bought plots in 1838 and the Town was proclaimed in …
PlaceKwaDukuza
… settlement as a halfway station between the Zulus and the settlers of Port Natal [Durban]. The huge settlement was …
PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
… 1830's. The Boers were mostly descendants of early Dutch settlers . They undertook the Great Trek into the interior of … was for the largest part open and…
EventRhodes asks Charter for British South Africa Company
… slave trade was to be allowed. By 1890 the BSAC and white settlers had occupied the fertile lands of the Shona …
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… the first free burghers, who became known as the Dutch settlers, were allowed by the DEIC to start farming at the … [6] At this time of the importation of…
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… their livestock, which was severely limited after German settlers flooded into the area. The Ovaherero chafed under …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… and Southeast Asia and embraced non-conformist European settlers. He prefers the non-racial heritage term ‘Camissa’ …
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… and their neighbours and gave their captives out to the settlers as 'apprentices' (slaves). Afterwards, Lieutenant …
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… and their neighbours and gave their captives out to the settlers as 'apprentices' (slaves). Afterwards, Lieutenant …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… their journey between Europe and India. In 1666, the settlers living at the halfway station decided to build the … it is mainly a museum that shows the lives…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… on the islands of São Tomé and Principé. The Portuguese settlers on these islands used slaves bought from the Kongo … India and even China with African ivory…
ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
… in dire need of rehabilitation. 1990's Waves of informal settlers start setting up homes in Cato Manor as the lure of …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… and increase re-indenture but reduce the number of Indian settlers The grievances of the Natal Indian Trust Board were: …
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… still recovering fresh wounds from the defeat by British settlers in the South African War 1899-1902. Discussions …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… they could not be pressed into service for the Dutch settlers. The settlers practiced a form of settled agriculture that came … populations of the Cape the…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Pretoria East
… Huguenots and much later by the arrival of the British settlers. It was especially the arrival of the French … is slowly increasing and spreading with the…
PlaceTable Bay
… of local Khoikhoi pastoralists by early Dutch settlers that opened up the area for European settlement. …
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… rooted in British colonialism and the influx of British settlers in 1820 . Initially established as a military …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… to 1914, but was eventually revoked in 1923 as the White settlers in Southern Rhodesia grew tired of company …
America, Spanish conquest
… Lima and, as governor, was responsible for bringing many settlers to Peru. Most settlers were involved in mining the vast amounts of silver … the Americas…