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ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… The region of the Western Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi … for their cattle…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… amongst Anglo Natalians. At last, after the discussion of years and the extinction of hopes innumerable, the planters' pet project has been … so much said in…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… Publishers.|African National Congress, (1980). The Role of Women in the Struggle against apartheid, 15 July. … African Publishing Group.|Berger, I., (1992)…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… Egypt The ancient Egyptian civilisation grew for thousands of years intact because the Nile River Valley and … trade route across a huge and harsh land…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… John Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha becomes the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda. 1871 22 February, … Langalibalele Dube is born at the…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… high security at the Pretoria High Court, with a group of alleged white supremacists accused of trying to overthrow the African National Congress (ANC) … on…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… 90th anniversary. Initially known as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the party changed its name to the … 1953, after it had been forced…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… says the evidence that HIV is the underlying cause of AIDS is ‘irrefutable’. HIV was isolated and identified as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… European ‘Discovery’ of the Americas Where and what is America? 'America' has more … one meaning. It is usually taken to mean the United States of America …
English Settlement in South Africa
… the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India … Between 1632 and 1640, the British also…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… In 1977, a group of "cultural workers"from the townships fled into exile in … "research and production" (writing). Over the eight years of its existence,…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… Aur nau pooram paar lagi (When we launched this boat of Life Into the river of sorrow We thought we had strong arms That our blood was so … midstream Cross…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… Introduction Nationalism refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It emphasises the collective of a…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… The concepts of a nation state and a plural society are often seen to be … Settler Liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and the Language of Non-Racialism ’, that …
ArticleTswana
… the Nguni and Sotho account for the largest percentage of the total Black population. The major Sotho groups are the … 3 million in South Africa and 1…
ArticleThe missionaries
… arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku , the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan … The missionaries were first given land in the…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… River and settled near a spring (fountain) in the vicinity of the current Old Presidency in Bloemfontein. He named his … a small pioneer house and laid down…
The French Revolution
… On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in Paris. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution, which would last…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone through various shifts in … “historical moment, social…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… The rounding of the Cape and the establishment of the trade route to the Far East had far reaching … the Cape, but for Southern Africa. Firstly, ‘discovery’…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in … to more militant protests, by the 1950s and…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… The three Basotho Wars (1858-68) and the formation of Lesotho The conflict between the Basotho people and White … in what is now the Free State/ Lesotho area…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… in 1990. The SWA territory was entrusted by the League of Nations to South Africa under an administrative mandate … movement in the early 1960s because it…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1995, armed youth gangs in Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed the homes and property of suspected undocumented migrants…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… This article was written by Jerry Saena and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … which assisted with her important role in…
Judaism
… Many Jews wear a tallit, or prayer shawl, to remond them of God's law. Sources: www.ida.net Jews, like Christians and … that God created everything and that…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… Prime Ministers from the NP (equivalent to the position of President today): Following constitutional reforms in 1984, the office of State President became…
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… Africa between 2 000 and 1 700 years ago. The study of Iron Age archaeology provides a history for the majority of present-day southern African and South…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… Causes of the War The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of Independence because the conflict arose between the … in the Orange Free…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black…