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PlaceTylden, Eastern Cape
… town in South Africa. Serving as landing site and home of settlers in the 1820's . The Eastern Cape also remains the … town in South Africa. Serving as…
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…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… other instances of protest and resistance, and the white settlers demanded that the colonial government take action to …
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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: …
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…
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 …
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… military and black tribal markets moved, at first into the Albany , and then into British Kaffraria . Originally, in … floods, which hit the Eastern Cape in…
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…
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…
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 …