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ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… Overview, West Africa and the rise of the Songhai Empire West Africa is home to many of Africa's oldest kingdoms. These kingdoms played an important role in…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… the darkest complexioned middle child in a Coloured family of 4 boys and 1 girl. His mother made obvious her dislike of him because of his darkness, and from…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… In 1887 Zululand was annexed by the colony of Natal and the Zulu were gradually stripped of most of their arable land. There was widespread poverty, made …
Introduction
… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a …
ArticleKora
… a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a leader of the Gorachouqua (`-qua’ meaning ‘people of’). This leader detached himself from this group with…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… society, people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution' Serialisation of The Soul of a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… formed; these organisations precipitated the formation of the African National Congress. 1866 The first attempt to … when Mfengu chiefs unsuccessfully…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… respectively) who helped establish the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). 1939 First becomes a member of the Young Left Wing Book Club. 1942 After…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… Symbols since 1994 In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. … symbols such as a national flag, an anthem…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… The region of the Western Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi … for their cattle…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… will be conducting its third census since the advent of democracy in 1994. Undertaking a census is a massive … census is usually held every five years…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be … uncertainty. During 2014 the continent…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… amongst Anglo Natalians. At last, after the discussion of years and the extinction of hopes innumerable, the planters' pet project has been … so much said in…
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… Egypt The ancient Egyptian civilisation grew for thousands of years intact because the Nile River Valley and … trade route across a huge and harsh land…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… John Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha becomes the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda. 1871 22 February, … Langalibalele Dube is born at the…
English Settlement in South Africa
… the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India … Between 1632 and 1640, the British also…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… 1941 Born in Cape Town of British parents c. 1947-58 At school in Cape Town 1953 … school 1959 Registers for BSc Engineering at University of Cape Town 1960…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… The concepts of a nation state and a plural society are often seen to be … Settler Liberalism, Pan-Africanism, and the Language of Non-Racialism ’, that …
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… Philip Kgosana led a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to … in if a meeting with J B Vorster ,…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… River and settled near a spring (fountain) in the vicinity of the current Old Presidency in Bloemfontein. He named his … a small pioneer house and laid down…
ArticleThe missionaries
… arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku , the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan … The missionaries were first given land in the…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… Imbeleko is the women's wing of the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO), formed in 1982 … struggle. Drawing its name from the Nguni tradition of carrying a…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. Following the death of her husband Jimmy Bolton, Secretary of the furniture and garment…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… population grew, and spread throughout the Western half of South Africa. They were the first pastoralists in southern … and called themselves Khoikhoi (or…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… in 1990. The SWA territory was entrusted by the League of Nations to South Africa under an administrative mandate … movement in the early 1960s because it…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1995, armed youth gangs in Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed the homes and property of suspected undocumented migrants…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… Prime Ministers from the NP (equivalent to the position of President today): Following constitutional reforms in 1984, the office of State President became…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the … the third and 11th centuries. 1804…