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ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… 2 000 and 1 700 years ago This topic focuses on the life of the first farmers of southern Africa and the ways we can find out about them. … people made tools…
Melinda Stuurman
… tuition – I dropped out and decided to work for a couple of years and then continue my studies. I worked at SBH Cotton … regret it for one moment. I studied…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… course that sought to put Africans back at the center of their history and highlight African agency. With only an overview of apartheid, students undertook…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
… from two factories called for the establishment of a union. Two months later, the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU), with the assistance of the GFWBF,…
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… The National Heritage Resources Act , no. 25 of 1999, aimed to introduce an interactive and integrated … Resources Agency (SAHRA) and Council. The…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… the Vita Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg. The focus of the Dance Umbrella was to offer a free and open platform to any form of dance as long as it was a new…
Buddhism
… topic or have any content suggestions please click on one of the 'interact' menu options on the right. Buddhist monks … , in Buddhism, refers to two things:…
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… 1999 the South Africa government commissioned the purchase of R30 billion worth of armaments specifically submarines and frigates from a … the whole country…
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… The Market Photo workshop is a division of the Market Theatre Foundation. Founded by renowned … that stimulate interactions and responses to a complex set of…
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… to the Progressive Party (PP), was formed after a group of liberal members of the United Party (UP), broke away to form a parliamentary opposition against…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… 1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in literature from the University of…
Grade 10 Archive
… longer required in the curriculum. The Slave Trade : One of the most controversial issues regarding European … in Africa is the slave trade. The causes and…
ArticleBambatha Rebellion 1906
… In mid 1906, the Natal colonialist in the face of rising Zulu resentment against the imposition of a 'Poll Tax' unleashed one of the most brutal and bloody…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 2: Learning from leaders
… add a local, provincial, national or international leader of their own choice who has contributed to the advancement of democracy and human rights. SAHO…
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… It can be concluded that the death of Biko left a vacuum similar to the one created by the banning of the ANC and the PAC after Sharpeville. On the positive…
Bambatha Rebellion 1906 bibliography
… References Gillings, K.G. (1989). "The Bambata rebellion of 1906: Nkandla operations and the Battle of Mome Gorge, 10 June 1906 " Military History Journal, 8…
ArticleTransport on water
… by people, animals or engines. There are different ways of propelling ships and boats. Some are moved forward (or … (engines). Rafts, canoes and reed boats…
Dance For All (DFA)
… development programme that functioned under the umbrella of CAPAB Ballet in Cape Town , now known as the Cape Town … College in Gugulethu . Boyd was…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… chiefdoms, among others. They incorporated some aspects of the cultures of the older populations such as totems, and the koma … chiefs. The paramount chief…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… around to find different plant foods at different times of the year, as well as good water resources. They believed … and stone and clothing from animal…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… 70 000 platinum mine workers went on strike. The majority of workers were from major platinum producers such as Impala … and Lonmin Platinum Mines based in…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… 1646 : His father, Adrian van der Stel dies in the line of duty and the family moves to Batavia. 1659 : Maria Leviens … sons and sister in-law Cornelia Six…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… which called for ‘comprehensive segregation’. The effects of their protests were however, not far reaching, and their … became a mass movement most active in…
Passage to Natal - The Journey
… were deplorable. The voyages were long, with the danger of disease breaking out, ever lurking. The Suffolk departed … at Port Natal (Durban) on 7 March, an…
Robben Island
… 1999. Robben Island is located in Table Bay, some 6km west of Bloubergstrand, and stands some 30m above sea level. … outpost. Initially the island was…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… reports about what they had seen at the Cape – plenty of water, fertile land and lots of wild animals. The VOC was the wealthiest and most powerful … East…
Defining Black Consciousness
… is in essence the realization by the Black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
… A multitude of African poetics has populated the constantly shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South…
Glossary: Transport through time
… talk about the period before Christ and before the fall of Rome in the year 476. Archaeologist Somebody who studies … used for sails and tents. Cargo Goods…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… 1957 Honourable Mention in South African Best Picture of the Year Contest. 1960 Double page coverage on Sharpeville … was made to stand for 5 days and 5…