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BiographyJan van Eck
… obtaining a BA degree majoring in geography and history in 1964, a secondary teachers' diploma in 1965 and a …
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… This led him to explore related issues such as the social history of tuberculosis and the social causes of …
Janet Burnside Soga
… to be ordained to the Christian ministry. Scottish social history shows that, just prior to this period, many weavers …
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
… Party on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, to write a history of the Party. The outcome, his book, Fifty Fighting …
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
… first black male to hold the position in South Africa’s history. A year later, Maimane was elected leader of the DA …
ArticleBambatha Rebellion 1906
… armed campaign to suppression the challenge to British colonial rule. The protest and subsequent armed rebellion … to accept a new tax that was being…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… source The peoples of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long before European slaver traders … was implemented in the Southern Colonies…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the … overseas. In this heightened resistance…
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… : 349 Albert Road Woodstock 7925 Cape Town, South Africa Postal Address P O Box 137 Observatory 7935 Cape Town Email …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… reviewed by Comrade DG Wolton, who stressed the growth of colonial liberation movements and the colonial workers' growing unity with the workers of the home …
Robben Island
… island as an asylum for the mentally ill, and in 1843 the Colonial Secretary, John Montagu, put forward a plan to use … in January 1865. The circular tower,…
Griqua community
… The Griqua people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, however their history had an important influence on the history and … Free…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… of drawing young African men (and, on a smaller scale, women) out of their homesteads and villages to service the … the “mineral revolution”. A more…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… led her to become a founding member of multiple grassroots women’s organisations and a member of parliament from 1994 to … as ‘ the school syllabuses taught…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… then in the early 1960s one of only a handful of Namibian women in exile, probably not more than five women were in … Becker, Namibian Women’s Movement 1980…
BiographyElliot Shabangu
… members of the youth movement in the Transvaal on the history of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the … People and Freedom Charter: Transvaal”…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… the find. Griqua chief Waterboer’s claim was backed by the Colonial Secretary, Richard Southey, and a British arbitrator …
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… you.” As an anti-Zionist Jew, he came to view Israel’s colonial-racism as akin to apartheid South Africa. In 1953 …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… of the Eze Nri. Democratically run, men and occasionally women in the Kingdom’s villages took part in decision-making … 1115 CE One of the longest-running…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… al Qalam; The Jo'burg Book: a guide to the city's history, people and places; Inleiding Tot Die Reg En …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the 23rd Africa Regional Conference of the Food and Agricultre Organisation: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 4 March 2004
… the World Bank has this to say about the role of women in African agriculture: “Women play a big role in … he said: “In the economic sphere, wherever the new…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… Ebersohn and Eamon Ryan, who profiled the group and its history in 1998, record that Ackerman was sent to … In the event Cape Town lost its bid two years…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… is established. Herero revolt in Namibia against German colonial rule is brutally suppressed by German colonial … Brussels, and travels to three other…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… is established. Herero revolt in Namibia against German colonial rule is brutally suppressed by German colonial … Brussels, and travels to three other…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… of the 20th century became the site of conflict between Colonial Administrators and autonomous African chiefdoms. The … the independent Zulu kings left the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Introduction
… This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior … would not have occurred. By highlighting…
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
… was increased political pressure to extend the vote to women and the working class. The years 1912-1914 were years … in an attempt to gain popular consent…
BiographyAubrey Levin
… to conscientious objectors and drug users. Levin has a history of drug abhorrence, with his doctoral thesis being a …
BiographyMandla Langa
… the Foundation for Global Dialogue and South African History Online. He married June Josephs, owner of Xarra Books …
BiographyMoses Mabhida
… Swaziland, where his strong attachment to Zulu culture and history is said to have earned him the affection of the aged …