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ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… Conference can be best understood as the formalisation of the Scramble for Africa. This British coined the term … European powers were slow to realise the…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… ship repairs companies also came out on strike. By the end of March 1973, close on 100,000 mainly African workers, approximately half of the entire African…
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… boycott a bus, you refuse to ride on it. Campaign A series of organised activities that are all meant to achieve a … deal with difficult or dangerous…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… South Africa for more than 100 000 years. As a matter of fact, the Cradle of Humankind, or what is believed to be the birthplace of humans, is close to…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… After the French Revolution, the newly founded Republic of France conquered the Netherlands in 1795. The Netherlands … became known as the Batavian Republic…
ArticleWorld War I
… This feature commemorates the outbreak of the First World War. This major historical event became … from previous wars, in Europe, is the scale and brutality…
The National Anthem
… Words This is the official version of the national anthem, combining Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem / The Call of South Africa Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist settlers landed…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC … Worker and Azania Frontline as publications…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Within a decade, irregularities in the employment of Indians had increased to such an extent that that the … in 1885, to investigate the conditions and…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his … The assassination…
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, …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the … operate underground, some were banned or endorsed out of Cape Town while others were…
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…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… is Passed. The Native Affairs Act was yet another spin-off of the South African Native Affairs Commissions report of 1905. It paves the way for the creation…
Journals
… Background and History The South African Association of Art Historians launched a journal in 1987. Accredited by the Department of Education and Training,…
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…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apartheid. We hope that our work will … to…
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…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… Early years The history of the South African Defence Force (SADF) can be traced to … at the Cape in 1652, he had with him a small contingent of soldiers,…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… The exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on … laws. Nevertheless, trade unions were an important…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… successive governments since shortly after the founding of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal and the Boer Republics. The National … radicalised it, however. These…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… culture, develop an Afrikaner economy, and to gain control of the South African government. During the 1930s the … van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK -…
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…
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…
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…
Indian immigrants engaged in non-sugar growing activities
… From the outset a large number of Indians were employed in non-sugar growing activities. A … was tea growing, which according to the Clayton Report of 1909…