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EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
Piet Retief completes the manifesto that sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is published in English in the Graham's Town…
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
Our ancestors survived by hunting wild animals and gathering berries and roots. The women usually gathered food while the men hunted. Source: museums.ncl.ac.uk…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
Following the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, the Government declared a State of Emergency (SOE), in 83 magisterial districts – the first state of emergency…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
Pretoria’s founder – a man by the name of Marthinus Wessels Pretorius - arrived in Pretoria in 1848 [i]. At the time of his arrival, King Mzilikazi and the…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
The three Basotho Wars (1858-68) and the formation of Lesotho The conflict between the Basotho people and White settlers in what is now the Free State/…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… first emerged in Western Europe during 1700s and 1800s. Here, new social classes (inspired by enlightenment …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
The industrial Revolution has shaped the societies we live in today and more so in Britain and in Southern Africa. It brought about not only changes in…
Doing Oral History
… due to the importation of Indian labourers during the late 1800s to early 1900s to work under the name of sugar cane …
PlaceWindyridge House, 24 Newington Road, Port Elizabeth
This is one of the best examples of Victorian Architecture in Port Elizabeth, and is typical of its Town and Houses Built, during the 1880s.
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ attempts at…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
100 000 BC Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In the Sahara Desert region, the people develop the use…
EventMiners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines
2,800 South African miners embark on a strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances. Located at Vanrhynsdorp, the mines were…
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 31 Carstens Street, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
The construction of this double-storey House dates from the 1880s, probably at the behest of CG Prince. It has a number of fine Victorian and art-nouveau…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
The history of four years of the revolutionary multi-racial union in South Africa, the Industrial Workers of Africa, and the labour movement at the time. …
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… with the onset of industrialized mining in the late 1800s took men of working age to the mines in the cities, …
PlaceVictorian terrace House complex, Grove Road and Albert Road, Mowbray
These 9 dwellings form part of a unique Street Block that dates from the 1880s, and consisted of two terraced rows, of identical late-Victorian Double-storey,…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
ALBERTI, Ludwig. 1968. Account of the Tribal Life and Customs of the Xhosa in 1807. Translated by Dr William Fehr. Cape Town: AA Balkema. ALEXANDER, James…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
The Cape Northern Frontier
The San © www.safrica.info In the late 17th and early 18th century the Dutch at the Cape Colony only had contact with the Khoikhoi and San peoples. The Dutch…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
Prehistory of the Region Pre-history of Southern Africa Africans who worked with copper and iron inhabited the area between 350AD to 600AD. Linguistic and…
PlaceWagon Museum
This Museum is situated on the same premises as the First 'Raadsaal' in Bloemfontein and houses a collection of historic wagons and carriages such as the…
EventBritish Kaffraria becomes a province with its own administration
British Kaffraria becomes a province with its own administration The area that became known as British Kaffraria was overrun by violence between British…
PlaceRuimzicht House, 10 Milner Road, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
This double-storey dwelling was built in the late 1890s and boasts of a number of fine Victorian architectural features, including ornate front and side gables…
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
In the middle of the South African War II (Anglo-Boer War II), General Lord Roberts left Bloemfontein and began the 'March to Pretoria' with nearly 44,000 men,…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
Afrikaner newspapers were essential supports for Afrikaner nationalism, and from the 1870s onwards they were used to mobilise Afrikaners, and after 1914 to…
EventGriqua leader Andries le Fleur is born
Andries Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader (kaptyn) and visionary, was born in Herschel, CC. He was the son of Abraham le Fleur and one of the…
PlaceHoly Cross Mission & Hospital, Eastern Cape
Holy Cross Hospital is a 224 bed Public Hospital situated in Taweni, Eastern Cape. The Hospital provides services to the Flagstaff area, part of Lusikisiki and…
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s…