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Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… things to different people. Some people relate to the idea of heritage in a personal way, whilst others see it as having … significance. In this section, we…
ArticleThe San
… The San populated South Africa long before the arrival of the Bantu-speaking nations, and thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. Language,…
ArticleZulu Family History
… stabbed and shot. Mantfombi Dlamini, born 1956, daughter of Sobhuza II of Swaziland and sister of Mswati III, married 1973. A condition for this marriage …
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… KwaMsiza is a village of 49 families located some 50km north of Pretoria. Its residents are Ndzundza Ndebele , and belong … an airport in 1953, they were…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… www.historywiz.com A new absolute ruler After the fall of Robespierre in 1794, a new group of people took over the government. They were called the Directory…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… (SACP) convenes a special meeting. Apart from members of the Central Committee, leading activists of the Party, including MK cadres who experienced armed ……
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1971 Statement by OR Tambo to the People of South Africa on the 10th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe . 16 December 1971 1972 " Speech by Oliver Tambo on the…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… formally established the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of South Africa in 1652. The history of the church has been very much bound with the politics of the…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… Soweto student uprisings have also inspired the production of plays including Sarafina which went on to play on … Whoopi Goldberg as the leading actors. The…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… as “what may turn out to be the most important exhibition of the 1990s”, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale , which opened … as appointed by Christopher Till,…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… What is heritage and identity? Questions of heritage and identity are not as straightforward as they … there is not one heritage, or an easily delineated set…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… Very little is known about the languages of South Africa's San people, as most of these beautiful, ancient languages were never recorded. … was recorded…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
… 22 June 1946 — The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the …
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… greatest benefit on mankind. Winning a Nobel Prize is one of the highest international honours that can be bestowed on … and will help to generate funds to…
National Orders Recipients
… South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion and discrimination on the basis of sex, colour and creed. The country has been steadily ……
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… deaths. What made the war significant was the sheer scale of the conflict and the gross violation of Human Rights. All the great powers were involved as the …
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and … first non-racial elections. The first plenary…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the … Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… Written by: FRANCO FRESCURA The exploitation of convict labour at the Cape during the Colonial era is closely connected with the work of John Montagu,…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… African. Africa, and being African, has become a core part of the identity of millions of the continent's inhabitants, but where does this word, to … Lewis,…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… and young workers who shared the interests and aspirations of COSAS but could not belong to it. In 1982, a COSAS … Commission was established to investigate…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… "On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… took place from 16 – 20 December 2007 at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane. This conference was remarkable as it signalled the fall from grace of the…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… A study of missionary settlement and the spread of Christianity in southern Africa during the period 1800 - 1925, including a piece on the role of…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… research and for graduates to become familiar with the use of the web as a tool for research, thus contributing to the development of content for the website…
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… BATTISS, JUNOD, FRANZ and GROSSERT . 1958. The Art of Africa . Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter. BEINART, Julian . Undated. The Popular Art of Africa …
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the …
Afrikaner
… from Western Europeans who settled on the southern tip of Africa during the middle of the 17th century. Portuguese mariners discovered the sea … to the East…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… West Rand on 5 September. Today, he like many activists of the South African socialist movement and other stalwarts of the liberation struggle, such as…