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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…
The National Flag
… on 27 April 1994. The design and colours are a synopsis of principal elements of the country's flag history. Individual colours, or colour … therefore no…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , the Apartheid government was … pressured by growing political resistance to the…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
… simple idea. It can be considered to be made up of the practices and traditions that are passed on from … traditions. Yet heritage also includes that which…
ArticleOFFICIAL LETTER FROM YASSER ARAFAT TO ANC PRESIDENT
… H.E. Brother Nelson Mandela President of the ANC REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA Greetings, It was with great appreciation I received your congratulatory message…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… 1924 E.S. Reddy is born in a small village of Pallapalli in India to E.V. Narasa Reddy, a Gandhian who … 1943 E.S. Redy receives his B. A. from the…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… the outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such as Zimbabwe and Namibia, … freeze in time all that has gone before. In…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
ArticleThe New Group
… This was a group or collective of young South African artists who, upon their return from … values propounded by the South African Society of Artists. At the…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, their history had an important influence on the history and development of the Orange…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… When? The first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (see timeline) and the origin of Aids and HIV has puzzled scientists ever…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… The destruction of the Zulu kingdom 1879 -1896 In the 1870s settler and … labour. These societies attempted to resist the extension of colonial control over…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… in technology, but also changes in the social structures of societies, manufacturing, transport and agriculture. This … the Industrial Revolution in Britain,…
National Land Committee
… Programme should address the racially based dispossession of all forms of land rights that occurred after 1913. Government should … acknowledge that certain…
ArticleAreas indentured Indians came from
… falls and the presidency/state involved. Use the map of India 1900 to ascertain the relative location of the district (Column 3) and the presidency/state…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… The emergence of South Africa's democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to the crisis: … crisis, which ordinary…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… for their cattle. The Trek Boers preferred the freedom of their ox wagons and tents to living under the rule of the DElC. Their trek brought them into…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to … can justly…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and mid-70s, the government's 'total onslaught' … to suppress much unrest and had it…
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
… This section looks at the rise of the Basotho kingdom in the 19th Century. The people … in this were the Basotho, the Boers and the British. Of these, the…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… Until the coming of democracy, Nelspruit was a small town that functioned mainly as a hub of transport for agricultural products that were transported to…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as providing the most poignant…
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… however, they eventually became more powerful in terms of population size and land ownership. The San lost their … Europeans arrived in the…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… In the latter part of 1959, PAC membership was still below expectations, and it … in December. The conference met in an atmosphere of anticipation. PAC…