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PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… military and black tribal markets moved, at first into the Albany , and then into British Kaffraria . Originally, in … floods, which hit the Eastern Cape in…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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, …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… which resulted in strained relations between the German settlers, the Herero and the Namaqua.Local rebellions took …