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Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the … operate underground, some were banned or endorsed out of Cape Town while others were…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost all of the population was Black. This…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… March 20, 1602 marked the beginning of the inexorable end for many a state in the then known world. On that day, four hundred years ago, a group of Dutch…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… Peoples’ Organisation (APO) resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales as a day of mourning in protest against the …
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… working on a piece loosely based on Aime Cesaire’s version of the Tempest for 2015. It has been hard to say that this … its parts were and are enormous. On…
Journals
… Background and History The South African Association of Art Historians launched a journal in 1987. Accredited by the Department of Education and Training,…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… for this is that there are very few written accounts of the mfecane, which makes it very difficult to determine … new oral traditions were born to suit the…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… is Passed. The Native Affairs Act was yet another spin-off of the South African Native Affairs Commissions report of 1905. It paves the way for the creation…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… This article was written by Jarvis Pruitt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … went by her middle name, Noel, and died…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… move around from place to place, following a nomadic way of life. The invention of the bow and arrow. The San invented their own type of bow and arrow in…
ArticleThe Nile river and its influence on settlement
… behaves from rivers elsewhere, but the manners and customs of the Egyptians themselves seem to be the opposite of the typical practices of mankind’. -…
Grade 6 term 1 classroom support
… For this activity students will take on the role of a traveler like Marco Polo. They can be taking the role of a trader, a general traveler or someone…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… Early years The history of the South African Defence Force (SADF) can be traced to … at the Cape in 1652, he had with him a small contingent of soldiers,…
Mission Stations - M
… by Merensky did not take place, as he states, as a result of Mswati's death, which occurred in 1868, but because the Regent, Malambule, had retained some of…
The Atlantic slave trade
… Causes and results of slavery A main cause of the trade was the colonies that European countries were … to develop. In America, for instance, which was a…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… culture, develop an Afrikaner economy, and to gain control of the South African government. During the 1930s the … van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK -…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other Zulu wars and forced migrations from the … Some historians argue that it was set…
First Matabele War
… In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became premier of South Africa with the support of the Afrikaner Bond. Rhodes' grand imperial vision for a … stretching through…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal) drowned when the banks of the Umgeni (uMngeni) River burst after heavy rains. The … would have been much higher if it were…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Vegetarian Congress at Ventor. February 19, Result of Matriculation examination is published. He failed Latin. … and it impressed him immensely. Later, it…
ArticleZulu
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into … from Swaziland and adjacent areas, and the…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… granted a monopoly to trade with Asia by the government of the Netherlands. Jan van Riebeeck Source: … images/jan.jpg Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Prehistory of Southern Africa Farming people did not inhabit the Greater … also lived in the region. Large stonewalled settlements of both BaKwena and…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… heritage month, when the histories and cultural practices of all its peoples are celebrated and due recognition given … and women who have contributed to the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first Europeans set foot on South African … 4 to 1.5 million years ago. 3 000 000…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … oppressions in the workplace during the…
Pedi
… the Nguni and Sotho account for the largest percentage of the total Black population. The major Sotho groups are the … and Sepedi Northern Sotho, or Sesotho…
ArticleXhosa
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into … from Swaziland and adjacent areas and the…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the conflict … movements against each other…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… General Smuts signing the agreement at the first meeting of the UN General Assembly. Source: P. Joyce (2000), … territory many Afrikaners felt closer to the…