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ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… by the guerrilla army FRELIMO to fight against Portuguese colonial rule. Hundreds of girls and young women also became … in the nationalist narrative as the…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… but also of who the ICC is accountable to. ICC: A Neo-Colonial Venture? Since its first case against the Congolese … terms of extraction with foreign firms…
ArticleZulu
… has no basis in culture or history but arises out of the colonial distinction between the Cape and Natal colonies. … independence ( see Anglo-Zulu Wars )…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the two dominant white political interests, the English colonial territories and recently defeated Afrikaner …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… meetings were held and various telegrams were sent to the Colonial Secretary to prevent the lading of any more free …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the ‘ colonial ’ language of the White Afrikaner oppressor. Indeed, … nationalism and Apartheid. [10]…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… was implemented in the Southern Colonies during Colonial Times. The five Southern Colonies that introduced … became the biggest of all the trade exports…
ArticleThe Johanna
The Johanna, or Joanna, was a British East Indiaman vessel sailing from Kent, England, to Surat, India, under the command of Captain Robert Brown. She embarked…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… of dried grass" (1888) The missionaries' relationship with colonial officials is perhaps not quite as clearcut as in the … Books on Native Affairs 1876) It…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… encountered by the new arrivals. 16 July, The British Colonial Office announces the appointment of a Ladies … referring to the concentration camps, writes to…
ArticleTswana
… nineteenth century and most belong to a church today, pre-colonial beliefs retain strength among many Tswana. … facilitated the transition to migrant wage…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… Much of the idea of the 'vacant land' myth in African colonial history rests on a White misunderstanding - however … the dominion of either the Afrikaner…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… to the hut tax which was imposed on the Zulu by British Colonial rule. The SANC and the Transvaal Native Congress …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Impact of Slave Trade and Colonisation on Indigenous Societies at the Cape Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… South African Indian Community with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. May, Pixley ka … contradicted by a tolerance and even…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… had increased to such an extent that that the Natal Colonial Secretary was forced to set up a special Indian …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… them into less fertile areas of the region. Soon the colonial project was well underway. With the systematic …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Natal is prohibited with effect from 1 July. 13 March, The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a … October, Albert Christopher, Ruben…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… workers. To induce the coolies into second terms, the colonial government of Natal promised grants of land on … to work on the sugar plantations. However,…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
The term “poor whites” was coined during the 19th century, as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land.[1] This…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… the first one hundred and forty years of Australian colonial history was marked by conflict and dispossession. … colonists discovered it. This myth was…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… in the experiences of those who were forced into colonial slavery. It is thus important to note that this … carnival has its roots in South Africa’s painful…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… but lost many men in the conflicts. The Cape soon became a colonial project and as a result of the importing of slaves …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… recovering a sense of cultural continuity with the pre-colonial past. One aspect of this process was to appropriate …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… years after most of Africa had become independent of the colonial powers. That weakness had little to do with the …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… bearing 10,000 signatures was presented to Lord Ripon, Colonial Secretary, and the agitation compelled the British …
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale … south of the island of Santiago, was the…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… as an exotic other and ahistorical – largely from a colonial and modernist lens, which is very limited in its … the problematic nature of modernity with its…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… evolving and adapting to the shifting realities of post-colonial Africa, a realignment of forces that emerged into a …
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… expanding, aggressive and self -confident. In short the colonial history of the Cape of Good Hope from its first …