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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…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save the … Goals was introduced in September 2000 …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… racial segregation in South Africa began with the arrival of the Dutch and English colonisers. Following its victory … and Coloured) population with an…
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, …
America, Spanish conquest
… Spain. (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them.) On his second voyage, … colonists fought among themselves and…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... … they went to Holland, and they added: 'It…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… it called the ‘Cold War’ ? The reason lay in the threat of new and even deadlier weapons of nuclear technology that prevented outright open warfare. … by…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes…
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…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… March 20, 1602 marked the beginning of the inexorable end for many a state in the then known world. On that day, four hundred years ago, a group of Dutch…
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… working on a piece loosely based on Aime Cesaire’s version of the Tempest for 2015. It has been hard to say that this … its parts were and are enormous. On…
Journals
… Background and History The South African Association of Art Historians launched a journal in 1987. Accredited by the Department of Education and Training,…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… for this is that there are very few written accounts of the mfecane, which makes it very difficult to determine … new oral traditions were born to suit the…
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…
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’. -…
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,…
Mission Stations - M
… by Merensky did not take place, as he states, as a result of Mswati's death, which occurred in 1868, but because the Regent, Malambule, had retained some of…
The Atlantic slave trade
… Causes and results of slavery A main cause of the trade was the colonies that European countries were … to develop. In America, for instance, which was a…
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…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… culture, develop an Afrikaner economy, and to gain control of the South African government. During the 1930s the … van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK -…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… Black People were detained in separate camps, the issue of Black Concentration Camps is dealt with in another … forces during Anglo-Boer War 2 (1899-1902)…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other Zulu wars and forced migrations from the … Some historians argue that it was set…
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…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal) drowned when the banks of the Umgeni (uMngeni) River burst after heavy rains. The … would have been much higher if it were…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to write: 'We haven't done much…
ArticleZulu
… and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into … from Swaziland and adjacent areas, and the…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… granted a monopoly to trade with Asia by the government of the Netherlands. Jan van Riebeeck Source: … images/jan.jpg Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of…