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ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… for life. This system is patriarchal, has largely excluded women from the office, and supports customary laws that are oppressive to women. In such a system…
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
… College at Oxford where she completed a master's degree in history. She taught at Rhodes for a short time but then she …
BiographyEnos Molapo Makhubedu
… Transnet to paint six panels on aspects of South African history for the Transnet corporate headquarters in Parktown, …
ArchiveLetter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal
A two-page handwritten letter in isiZulu on green paper, headed with the address of Mathubesizwe Secondary School, Nyoni (Macambini), with "Bethel Mission"…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… Thomas Mapfumo in Berlin. Mbuli also wrote and narrated a history of apartheid in South Africa for BBC Radio which was … agents said it was related to his…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… solidarity went beyond that of the nuclear family. Pre- colonial societies were highly varied, where they were either … lines can presently be seen as…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
… an administrative division set up in 1865 by the Colonial authorities on land confiscated from hostile Xhosa …
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the rebels, … 25, pp.241-260. Ochieng, W. R. (1990)…
ArticleWorld War I
… involved in the War were imperial powers with large colonial territories in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. … The First World War had a huge impact on the…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… created a generation of disadvantaged youths and abused women due to the alcohol dependency that can be accredited to … and descendants in order to hopefully…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… less independent in relation to their participation in the colonial cash economy. The result was that thousands of … force" (Ross, R. (1993). Beyond the Pale…
BiographyElsa Joubert
… of Isobelle in 2002), which deals with the story of the women of an Afrikaner family spanning 100 years, is sometimes …
BiographyJohn Tengo Jabavu
… Fort Hare). He was also labelled as a champion of women's education as he wanted them to receive equal …
BiographyRichard Goldstone
… by humankind to stop the terrible slaughter of men, women and children which has marked this century,” Richard …
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
… she commenced tertiary education at the Sophia College for Women in Breach Candy, Bombay India. [vi] Although she had …
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
… arrested her. Middleton was one of a small group of white women jailed in South Africa in the mid-1960s. Moving to …
BiographyCassim Amra
… Amra added, “because - - - they heard about European women knitting for soldiers. She reads about Mrs. So-and-So’s …
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A documentary history, Volume two 1943 – 1964. Edited by Alison Drew. Part …
BiographyWilliam Cock
… moored in the Kowie River direct to London with a cargo of colonial produce, chiefly wool. This will be the first direct …
Sunny Venkatruthnam, University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July 2002
… University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July 2002 …
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… searched. They then took her to the condemned cells, where women prisoners who were going to the gallows were held. The … Mandela were also being detained…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… produce to the market. In addition to participating in the colonial economy, they sought to use the colonial political … political mobilisation was closely…
BiographyJulius Nyerere
… teach. In 1949, Nyerere was selected to do his masters in history and economics at Edinburgh University. He was the …
BiographyAlex Hepple
… (Pelican, 1967) and South Africa: a political and economic history (Pall Mall, 1966), as well as numerous pamphlets and …
BiographyLindiwe Mazibuko
… making her the youngest Black woman leader in the history of the DA’s parliamentary caucus. After being sworn …
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… was responsible for identifying suitable young men and women within the trade union structures who could be …
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… 1. Introduction ↵ The value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors … for historians to construct narratives of precolonial and…
BiographyPhathekile Holomisa
… a book entitled A Double-Edged Sword, which outlines the history and formation of CONTRALESA. This article was written … Seara-Robitaille and forms part of…
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… also affected South Africa. Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the ethnic and racial terms that have been used to …
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… to receive a scholarship to study fine arts and art history (what he calls European art history) at the Gerlesborg School of Fine Art in Stockholm, … Mabandu…