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EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… isolated people that were considered unwanted elements in colonial society. Among the first inhabitants were political … Among the political prisoners on…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… the form of a protective fence...” (Jan van Riebeeck’s diary as quoted in Worden et al, p. 25). The hedge was aimed … Khoi society was devastated by loss of…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… He gradually saw a link between this tragedy in European history and his own life under apartheid. A significant …
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
… 1995 Children’s creative writing publication 1998 Oral history publication Book of poems …
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth, National Cultural History and Open-Air Museum, Pretoria, National Museum, …
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… reason for this infestation lay in decisions made by the colonial authorities. It was an era before the advent of … are no longer legally bound by racial…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… my working career as a cadet journalist with the Cape Post newspaper that operated out of Orange House. Fifty years … just like they did in my day. I am only…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the twentieth anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union, 01 July 1974
… the people of Tanzania along the road of independence from colonial domination. The proud banner of independence was … difficulties imposed on the Tanzanian…
Message on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union by O. R. Tambo, July 1974
… the people of Tanzania along the road of independence from colonial domination. The proud banner of independence was … difficulties imposed on the Tanzanian…
America, Spanish conquest
… populations were enslaved, abused and killed. In 1542, colonial laws were introduced to protect the Amerindians. In … most significant and for many,…
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria’s communist movement. Meticulously …
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… Zimbabwe's pre-colonial history is synonymous with the ruins of Great …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… by Gandhi as one of the most important figures in the history of passive resistance and probably, with A.M. … was attained between Gandhi and General Smuts,…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of the Congress Alliance. It served as a vision of a post-apartheid South Africa, which was to be used as a … it attempted to do what had never been done…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … For the serious researcher investigating any aspect of the…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Introduction December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is … in 1994, December 16 continued to form part of…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… for his close identification with Zulu tradition and history, had his ancestral home outside Zululand. 2 Gumede … like teaching, interpreting, policing,…
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South Africa is that the cultural expression … volume is a fist step in rewriting the cultural history…
EventA strike by White mineworkers turns into open rebellion
… the Witwatersrand. They also attacked Johannesburg's main post office and power station in a mass protest that, in a … to read our feature on the Rand Revolt…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… of the nature and basis of the power of chiefs in pre-colonial African societies. They believed that traditional … to 30 locations in a district. A headman,…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… was formed when the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) … members of the NIC resigned and formed a body…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
… arrival of the Settlers in 1820 It is only in learning the history behind a building that it takes on a meaning of its … historical tours, and even those who…
PlaceBloubergstrand, Tableview -Cape Town
… forces invaded in order to occupy the Cape Colony. This colonial post was important to them as it was directly on their trade … https://www.bloubergdirectory…
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… The history of the institution dates back in 1910 when a Museum … in Nairobi by the then East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society [currently the East…
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… has subsequently been published; The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa by Robert Ross. This book provides a … of a liberal constitution for the Cape…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… references to the inspiring developments in Cuba, and anti-colonial struggles in Algeria and other parts of Africa, but … the strategy and tactics of the…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… Additional evidence emerged in the years that followed. In diary entries from early 1980, US President Jimmy Carter … is often cited in discussions of South…
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… their territory. In response to public outcry, the British Colonial Office in South Africa appointed a Mr Labouchere as … References: Davenport T.R.H,(1979)…
BiographySally Gross
… most challenging and important figures in our country’s history. Gross was born intersex and classified male at …
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… Together with Jeremy Brickhill, he wrote a book about the history of the young people's uprising of 1976, which was …