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… Territory of British Kaffraria On 21 December 1834 massed Xhosa armies attacked the eastern regions of the Cape Colony, destroying all settler resistance before … they reached the Sunday's River, they showed little intent of holding onto captured territory, and by January 1835 they …

… Jean Gelman Taylor,  THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book indicates that there were … Indians - slave and free - in Batavia from the early days of the Dutch settlement in the 17th century. Dutch soldiers …

… A project of the Centre for Humanities Research, the Dept. of Political Studies and the Dept. of Philosophy, UWC invites you to a Reading Group and Seminar …

… by Luli Callinicos Topic This part describes the nature of housing and shows how it was related to the labour needs of the employers on the Rand. Housing in Towns Housing before … was easier to keep the living area clean, and to dispose of rubbish and sewage at a healthy distance. In the old …

… Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad … that make up “Intersections Intersected: The Photography of David Goldblatt’’ provide abundant and haunting proof of just how good he is. The show runs through May 1 at the …

… On 1 February 1808 the territory North of the Great Berg river was annexed to the new District of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drostdy with its … Northern Districts were separated to form the new division of Vanrhynsdorp. With the exception of the Olifant's River …

… Report of the Education Charter Campaign, a joint campaign of the Azanian Students Organisation, the Congress of South African Students and the National Union of South …

… Game viewing in a Malaria free environment. A wide variety of accommodation is available to suit your needs. The diversity of Pilanesberg’s accommodation options means that there is an … it” in a Safari tent in the bush, or a savouring a glass of fine wine in a big bubble-bath as you gaze out the window …

… local house. An informer had tipped them off about a group of externally trained ANC cadres giving military training to … no reason to believe they were dealing with anything out of the ordinary - except perhaps that this training was … place six months into what was supposed to be a new era of negotiation. But police were astonished at what they …

… Doornfontein is a Suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is located just to the East of the City Centre. The Area of Doornfontein, which means thorn fountain, was originally …

…   Peddie is a small town in the Amathole district of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.  Peddie is a historic little town which lies 50 km South-West of Bisho, on the Grahamstown road. (prior to 1910) The …

… ban this book. If I were them I would distribute thousands of copies for whites to show their children if they were … with eventual survival. (Ernest Cole from A House of Bondage, the first published book of photographs by a black South African]. Apartheid is …

… in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the dilemmas of the current economic relations between the rich and poor countries, where the process of globalisation has brought benefits to mainly developed …

… just returned from my vacation there."  Cape Town is one of South Africa’s most Historically important Cities. It was … set foot in South Africa —which also marked the beginning of the South African slave trade . It was Home to perhaps the … all! It was at Sea Level but what lay beneath was layers of sandstone, set atop a granite base. Pressure from the …

… African Town in the former Ciskei, about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort Beaufort! Dimbaza is a symbol of the 'surplus people', those that were discarded by the … Years after Cosmas Desmond penned down the early History of Dimbaza, it remains a unique and extraordinary place to …

… The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the … years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the centre of the largest known Kingdom in the African sub-Continent. …

… THE GREAT ILLUSION First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote which is … 700,000 voters, i.e. about half the votes cast in favour of the 'new constitution' (1,300,000). These whites who did …

… Behind the imposing grey granite walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church Square, lie over 150 000 historical … in the Iziko Social History Centre, where the collections of some of Iziko’s 11 museums have been brought together …

… Looking at the series of large color photographs called “In the Time of AIDS” by the South African David Goldblatt, you may wonder … with people, but no one in them appears to be sick. Some of the prints, which date from 2003 to 2007, include a looped …

… forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history. There were several political and … First, during the 1950s and 1960s, large-scale removals of Africans, Indians, and Coloureds were carried out to …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … O.F.S. Volksraad in May 1887. They were, like the authors of the previous petition, Gujarati Muslims from India, not … Their complaint was directed against the restrictions of Ordinance 1 of 1885. Source: V.R. Annexure to Minutes, …

… Magistrates` Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few buildings in which African tenants could hire … offices: it was owned by Indians. This was before the axe of the Group Areas Act fell to declare the area "white" and … Youth League. We went together into the Defiance Campaign of 1952, into general strikes against the Government and sat …

… From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1] …

… which ended in Durban last night, touted the presence of Mafika Gwala as the “exciting re-emergence of the respected Black-consciousness era poet.” “Crap,” says the published South African poet, essayist, writer of short stories and soon-to-be novelist. “I have been always …

… neighbouring country, Senegal. It is a long narrow strip of land, 25 to 50 km wide, that surrounds the Gambia River . … over, they maintained that name. A year to the attainment of independence in 1964, the then Prime Minister officially sought the consent of the Permanent Committee on geographical names based in the …

… The small, farming Town of Piketberg also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past. Is located at the foot of the Piketberg Mountain Range. It is surrounded by fields of wheat that change colour with the seasons - from reddish … Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa, 2015. The Sandveld Oral History Project, “ …

… you believe the various literary or big screen adaptions of photojournalists over the years. The first famous … in the 1930’s. The latest film adaption of a book on photojournalists is The Bang Bang Club, very … loosely based on Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich’s book of the same name about South Africa’s bloody transition to …

… March, 1992, President F.W. de Klerk announced the results of the Whites-only referendum held to determine White … he started in February 1990. Surprisingly, the majority of Afrikaans-speaking Whites gave their approval of the negotiations process.  Analysts estimated that 62 per …

… Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner, Miriam. Am I an African? The Political Mem^oirs of H. M. Basner. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1993. Bonner, Philip. "The PoUtics of Black Squatter Movements on the Rand, 1944-1952." Radical …

… We, the duly authorised representatives of political parties, political organisations, … African Government, coming together at this first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), mindful of the awesome responsibility that rests on us at this moment …