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ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
San hunter-gatherers The word ‘San’ means ‘people different from ourselves’. The San, who were hunter-gatherers, were the first people to live at the Cape…
Defining Black Consciousness
" Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the Black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the…
Glossary: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
Key terms with definitions for this topic Islam: the Muslim religion, based on belief in one God and revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah …
ArticleKey terms with definitions for this topic
Islam: the Muslim religion, based on belief in one God and revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah Kingdom: an area controlled by a particular…
ArticleMads Nørgaard
Mads Nørgaard, born in Denmark in 1987, is a photographer educated and living in South Africa. Mads has integrated himself into South African life and works as…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… sought to cut out the middlemen and go directly to the sources of the commodities. As a result, trade between …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
Terms You Need to Know: Christopher Columbus arriving in the America. Image Source Abolition: The ending of a law, a system or an institution. During…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… was detained for three weeks for refusing to disclose his sources Apr 5- Torch and New Age banned. (Merrett:44-45) Apr- … three periods totalling 16 days for…
South African and World leaders
South African leaders South Africa has a long and very rich history. Many different cultures and communities live side by side and even together in South…
ArticleThe environmental impact of different types of transport
Air pollution The ways in which we travel have changed a lot over the last few centuries. Transport has become faster, easier and sometimes cheaper. But the…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
The text that follows is a brief summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You can read far more detail by going to SAHO's TRC feature In an…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
The International Socialist League (ISL) was formed in September 1915. It was created by a progressive faction of the South African Labour Party (SALP) as a…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… Government’s preference for public-private partnership. Sources privy to the signing of the MoU in 2005 told The … reports’ is misplaced’. In its affidavit‚…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a national and international scale…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… in South Africa from Mozambique. [1] Jstor Primary Sources, contributed by the South African Communist Party, “ … National Liberation Struggle”, p.745…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
The South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC) was formed in 1916 in response to a request from the British Imperial Government for an African labour force…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
The history of the Young Communist League (YCL) dates back to 1921, although the organisation observes 25 May 1922 as the date of its official formation…
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
The relationship between our Constitution and other laws The Constitution is a law passed by Parliament and it is the highest law in the land. All other laws…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
This topic follows on from the previous one. Having looked at a period when it was not clear that Europe would dominate the world, this topic now explores how…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… the industry should look at obtaining funds from external sources. This caused a decline in the Ghanaian …
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in Sophiatown in particular. It was here that the most important…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved…
ArticleList of victims of police action, 21 March, 1960 (Sharpeville and Langa)
Sharpeville Funeral, 13 April, 1960. Source: Peter Magubane / The Drum Archive / african.picturesCasualties in SharpevilleBakela, WiggiBeshe, JamesBessie,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
In September 1915, the Union Government offered to raise an infantry battalion of Cape Coloured men for service in the First World War. A strict selection…
Learning about history through objects
Investigating the Toy box: objects Sometimes we do not have written records or pictures to help us find out information about the past, only the objects that…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
While colonialism and slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the…
Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition 2012
… an inclusive history and the use of different historical sources in history teaching and learning. The new Curriculum …