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ArticleHealth and welfare
… South Africa is a country of relative prosperity, with vast resources and a modern … and widespread poverty and deep inequalities - the legacy of apartheid…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… Following the wave of independence which swept the African continent in the … Although this was one motivation for the establishment of the Organisation of…
Insurrections: The Storming
… in 2011, to open a conversation between the imaginations of Indian and South African writers and musicians. The idea … our globally dark present, and to…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… in 2011, to open a conversation between the imaginations of Indian and South African writers and musicians. The idea … our globally dark present, and to…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… Portuguese expansion into Africa began with the desire of King John I to gain access to the gold-producing areas of West Africa. The trans-Saharan trade…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… similar wealth that had drawn Europeans to the rest of the continent. By then, South Africa had no known gold … in West Africa in the fifteenth century. The…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… played a major role in shaping the history and diversity of Cape Town. Origins The exploration of the African continent in the fifteenth century and the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… is fought and slavery is entrenched. Throughout the rest of the country Nguni and Sotho groups begin splitting, as a result of strengthening chiefdoms, into…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… King Ngqika and Prince Ndlambe led the Rharhabe people of the Amaxhosa in the early 19 th century. Their relationship is of significance regarding the effect…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… united Democratic and non-racial society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… College. 1939 Huddleston joins the Anglican Order of the Community of Resurrection at Mirfield in West Yorkshire. 1939-1941 … 1943-1956 Huddleston is…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Worden points out that slavery “”¦became the mainstay of arable farming in the western districts, played a significant role in the functioning of Cape Town…
Doing Oral History
… Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator was Dr…
ArticleAfrapix
… Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography … by Omar Badsha, Lesley Lawson and a small group of…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… The cornerstone of the Group Areas Act of 1950 was to prevent interracial contact ‘as far as … be privileged with the exclusive rights and enjoyment of prime…
Mission Stations - A-F
… as it was often called in the days when it was a station of the London Missionary Society. At this place, which is … in the annexed etching, there were a…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert … scale. However, information on the lives and works of these authors…
Durban an Overview
… In 1824 Nathaniel Isaacs obtained from Shaka, King of the amaZulu , a grant of land in the area immediately surrounding the bay of Durban. Initially…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… Genocide in Nazi Germany Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, which refers to the intentional, systematic extermination of six million Jews by the…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be … Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape of a…
ArticleThe Basotho
… In the early 1800’s there was a great deal of migration and upheaval in Southern Africa, mostly as a result of the Mfecane. There were a number of conflicts…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… turning point in South African history when the discovery of diamonds at Kimberly and of gold on the Witwatersrand spurred the industrialisation and…
Zulu Community
… Late nineteenth century postcard of Zulu Warriors. Note the Europeans in the background. … Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until the demise of apartheid, Nelspruit remained a small town, a hub for the transport of agricultural goods from…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… 18 February The German colony of Cameroon falls to French and British forces after 17 months of fighting. 21 February–19 December The Battle of Verdun begins…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… study in May 2003. Some sources say that the jump of the disease from animals to humans was made even earlier … than the 1940s. 1959 In Kinshasa, Democratic…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… When Mapungubwe was abandoned, it was to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and economic power … area shifted to Great Zimbabwe and this…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working of Fusion and its chances of long-term success if the Second World War had not cut … prospects were …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Forced removals refer to the moving of people from their homes against their will. This may not … not in a position to challenge are employed [i] . Examples…
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… in Grade 7 Human Evolution. Darwinism Today the theory of evolution is a well supported, unifying principle in … most remembered for his contribution to how…