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PlaceHluhluwe and Umfolozi Game Reserves
… subject to severe hunting first by the Zulu’ s during the early 1800's and then in the 1840's by the 'Great White … together with the 'Hluhluwe Valley…
PlaceFernkloof Nature Reserve, Caledon
… Early in the nineteenth Century, Hermanus Pieters, used to … book on Hermanus, quotes Ion Williams as saying in those early days: “We thought we were going…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
… by the South African Development Trust (SADT) in the early 1960s, after some resistance from the local Farmers … established by the then Department of…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… emphasise the necessity for this further provision at an early date. The present occupation is, therefore, as follows: … at Port Elizabeth. A very…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… out-houses. Source: South African National Archives In the early 1960s the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the … dialogue with the incarcerated…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… 1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the Donaldson Orlando … why he had been served a banning order. 5 December, In the early hours of…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… travels through the Pass, was generally considered by early visitors to be an "almost impassable mountain", and … outspan was located. The project was…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… to Pieter Morkel, managing director of Volkskas in the early 1980s, state business was by then an insignificant … a sbarp rise in costs arose during the late…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… federal efforts to standardise this policy were made as early as 1913 (Ibid., 71). The Natives Land Act (1913) and … to demolish Sophiatown sparked a stand…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… 1855. With the building of the Hartebeespoort Dam in the early 1930s, Pretorius’ farm disappeared under water. It is … had a craving for cultural activities…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… a significant role during the transitional years of the early 1990s. As a consequence, the democratic transformation … p610). In conclusion, the democratic…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… in England. His father and mother were away most of his early life and he was raised primarily by his aunt, who had the greatest influence on him in his…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… have a right of settling on the farm. We start work form early sunrise until sunset daily except Sundays when we have … housing. A township 'coffee cart',…
PlaceSunset Beach, Cape Town
… established Suburb of Sunset Beach being developed in the early/mid 1990’s (an estimation) it was appropriately renamed …
PlaceFresnaye, Cape Town
… an Estate just under 1 kilometer squared, purchased early in the 1800s. It belonged to a descendant of the French …
PlaceHondeklipbaai, Namaqualand
… governor of the Cape, discovered copper in Namaqualand. As early as 1852 the first copper was shipped by the “Bosphorus” … governor of the Cape, discovered…
PlaceParliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town
… Government embarked on a series of limited reforms in the early 1980's. In 1983, the Constitution was reformed to allow … Government embarked on a series of…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… a walkout of Zulu delegates from the National Assembly in early 1995, and clashed repeatedly with newly elected …
ArticleThe San
… evidence that give us clues as to the development of the early South African hunter-gatherers and later the San. These …
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… Minister of sending hospital workers for alcohol in the early hours of the morning during her recovery. The article …
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… from Mauritius at a very young age and by 1808 was in his early twenties. His slave-owner was the proprietor of a wine …
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… popular and folk art of her country. It was obvious quite early that much of the folk art had deep resemblances with …
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… not allowed to attend schools. They began working at an early age, and before 1921, child exploitation and abuse in …
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… years. Although it collapsed as an organisation in the early 1940s, having to give way to more radical …
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… the ending of the emancipation period in 1838 until the early twentieth century. Taking in a number of slave heritage … the lives of the enslaved workers on…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… son of an English parson of meagre means. He knew from an early age that he was doomed to a short life and died at the … private secretary (and sole…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… States, he also seemed destined for success. He formed an early friendship with the politically active folksinger Harry Belafonte, and then made two early…
PlaceBenin
… history after colonialism was characterized by an early period of multiparty competition that proved unstable, … the traditional north/south socioeconomic…
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… among the Indian community. I faintly realised in those early days the powers of the simple man who was to achieve in … also contributed to our fatigue. Bapu…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the South African Chamber of Business Banquet Johannesburg, 30 August 1994
… flourish;and it is stimulating and reassuring to see these early signs of progress. The new positive signs of recovery … it has to be tackled with gusto. To…