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EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… to 1914, but was eventually revoked in 1923 as the White settlers in Southern Rhodesia grew tired of company …
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… the VOC established their presence at the Cape. Dutch settlers at the Cape of Good Hope arrived in 1652 when Jan … vessels plying the Europe-East Indies…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… ) was ruled by White people (descendants of white European settlers). This government was exclusively for white people. … ) was ruled by White people …
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… Land Theory is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their … a point of convergence between the…
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… cultural calendar, as it dates back to 1974 when the 1820 Settlers National Monument was officially opened. With the …
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… were dismantled and reworked in favour of the French settlers as they were allowed to buy or confiscate land. By …
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… and maps over her lifetime, and encouraged both settlers and Zulu families to write their family stories, in …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… and accede to be subjects of the Crown, or Black 'settlers'. *Note: Mfengu - Although they speak a common …
EventJan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time
… believed to have been unfairly confiscated by European settlers. This would be the start of a long trend, as over …
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… The sparsely populated colony slowly attracted German settlers, 3,700 by 1903, and 13,000 by 1910. In 1903, the …
English Settlement in South Africa
… by the Dutch. As a consequence, descendants of Dutch settlers left the Cape Colony, migrating eastward and north …
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… African religions and Judaism. European and other foreign settlers brought most of these religions. Traditional African …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… to seek employment on the farmlands of white colonial settlers. After the British took over the Cape Colony from …
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… in the mid-nineteenth century in Natal when British settlers, Zulu speakers and Afrikaners came into contact. [25] The arrival of the British settlers and…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… by hunting and gathering. Did you know that the European settlers had many names for the hunter gatherers? These … only inhabitants of Southern Africa before…
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… Xhosa groups that were moving into the area to the German settlers of the 19th century, to the English colonists that … Xhosa groups that were moving into…
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
… the Cape and sold into slavery to do domestic work for the settlers, as well the dirty and hard work on the farms. A … etc. The number of slaves exceeded the…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… Early Dutch Settlers soon realised that Hout Bay could serve as an …
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… The development of Afrikaans can be traced to arrival of settlers to the Cape. This is however not the sole factor …
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… for their presence and their occupation of the land. The settlers, calling themselves the "Pioneer Column", proceeded … a developed society. This society was…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
… Captain Evatt is known to have overseen the arrival of the Settlers in 1820 It is only in learning the history behind a … of the colony first occurred. By…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… David Jansz and takes off with almost the whole of the settlers herd of cattle. He is pursued but not captured. 1654 … the ownership of the land takes place…
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… between the British and Dutch were running high. The Dutch settlers strongly (and correctly) suspected the British of …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… its origins in Dutch. It developed amongst Dutch-speaking settlers and slaves in South Africa in the 17th century, and …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… to pay for the reacquisition of land held by British settlers. The British, however, went back on this agreement, …
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… Katanga's secession was supported by most White settlers in the province who would benefit the most from …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… breakaway and establishes The Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association (CBISA). The Colonial Born and Settlers' Indian Association (CBSIA) holds its…
PlacePiquetberg
… post, and may have its roots in the conflict between Dutch settlers and Khoikhoi in 1673-76. At that stage the Dutch …
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… Britain had fought the Boer settlers in South Africa in the Anglo-Boer wars (1880-1, …