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Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… 1971 Closure of The Classic , by Nat Nakasa , editor. Publication of ‘ Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’ , Oswald Mtshali’s first book of poetry, …
America, Spanish conquest
… Spain. (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them.) On his second voyage, … colonists fought among themselves and…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African … to confine them to the nominally self-governing…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... … they went to Holland, and they added: 'It…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… it called the ‘Cold War’ ? The reason lay in the threat of new and even deadlier weapons of nuclear technology that prevented outright open warfare. … by…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… The first formal settlement of the Algoa Bay region took place in 1776 when a number of farms were allocated to local Dutch graziers. In 1799 the … at…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… comes into being. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), establishes a station at the Cape of Good Hope, at the…
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…
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,…
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…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national revolution becoming apparent, security police …
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’. -…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… to the South African presidency on 9 May 2009 on a wave of popular euphoria fuelled by voters and fellow party … Zuma’s rise to power had withstood a long…
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…
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…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to write: 'We haven't done much…
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…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important … and economic. During the Cold War, South Africa was of strategic importance in 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…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which … or term Nguni is the collective name for ethnic…
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…