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ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… reports about what they had seen at the Cape – plenty of water, fertile land and lots of wild animals. The VOC was the wealthiest and most powerful … East…
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
… South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in South Africa, including the government, … the…
ArticleSilverton Siege
… In an attempt to escape, they took refuge in a branch of Volkskas Bank in Silverton, Pretoria. They held 25 civilians in the bank hostage, making a number of…
Defining 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 blackness of their…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
… A multitude of African poetics has populated the constantly shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South…
Glossary: Transport through time
… talk about the period before Christ and before the fall of Rome in the year 476. Archaeologist Somebody who studies … used for sails and tents. Cargo Goods…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… 1957 Honourable Mention in South African Best Picture of the Year Contest. 1960 Double page coverage on Sharpeville … was made to stand for 5 days and 5…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… South Africa 1899 He organizes an Indian ambulance corps of 1100 men during his service in the Boer War 1906 He … Gandhi introduces the non-violent protest…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary … representation for Coloureds and…
ArticleSS Mendi
… The sinking of the SS Mendi was caused by the reckless action of the captain of the SS Darro. It remains the greatest wartime maritime …
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… renewable energy sector and the now highly visible effects of pollution and climate change, as seen in the recent … swept through Southern Africa and left…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West … seriously injured. Following the open…
ArticleSouthern African Development Community (SADC)
… 17 August 1992. The primary focus was economic integration of the region. Before 1992, the aim of SADCC was to forge close economic co-operation with ……
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism like Capitalism and African Nationalism profoundly shaped the history of the country, and continues to influence the…
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… and the biggest and most representative organization of Africans. For many years we have addressed protest, … Frankly, we are by no means satisfied with this…
The War
… The flag of the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State On 9 October 1899 the SAR issued an … the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The first phase of the…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… watch movies during my free time. Project: Biography of Buchi Emecheta Emily Coolidge Emily Coolidge is a … studying Theatre and English. Project: …
The turn to armed struggle
… Act . Severe state repression, the detention and banning of leading political activists, forced the ANC to discuss … consider the turn to the armed struggle…
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… as a medical physician. Moroka marries Maggy, daughter of Chief Fenyani. Moroka sets up a medical practice in a … 1936 Moroka sets up a medical practice in…
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… European ships had to travel around the southern tip of Africa to reach their destination. Source: top image, … This growth was partly possible due to the…
Polokwane an Overview
… © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of settlements long before the arrival of the Voortrekkers. The region was home to several …
TCOE Online Exhibition
… and Land dispossession history The text and gallery of images within this feature are concerned with the crucial issue of land rights in South Africa. They…
Schlebusch Commission
… In 1973, the Government appointed a select committee of parliament, the Schlebusch Commission, to investigate the objects, organisation, financing and…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… project examines the Freedom Struggle from the beginning of the 20th century up until South Africa's first democratic … is subjective and in this case,…
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… since the Soweto Student Uprising . The dialogue consists of a series of open letters between the generation of student activists from 1976 and the current…
Protest Art
… The formation of the United Democratic Movement (UDF) in 1983 amalgamated … under one banner. Some organisations consisted of cultural workers who…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… Gelderland, that is diverted from sea by Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. 22 November, Paul Kruger reaches Marseilles and … Wilhelmina, dies in Pretoria . 1902…
ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… school teachers and learners in Grades 8 to 11. The aim of the competition is to increase the interest in history and … aims to acknowledge - in a…
Tsonga
… The Tsonga are a group of the Bantu-speaking population who live in areas extending … in the Lydenburg, Soutpansberg, and Waterberg districts of the Northern…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… , which was accepted by the ANC in 1955, and the years of harassment that followed. The Africanists found the … Leballo as secretary and decided to follow…