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Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… to protest against the Natives' Land Act. They are met by Colonial Secretary, Rt Hon. L. Harcourt who concludes that …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… Freedom, a memoir. 1955 Abrahams is sent to Jamaica by the Colonial Office to write a popular history of the Island. …
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… names sound more inclusive and less reflective of the colonial and apartheid past. For example, the cities of …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… for contesting, negotiating, and shaping capitalist and colonial attempts to impose strict controls over workers' …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… of Kgosi Mampuru, a 19th-century local chief who resisted colonial rule and was subsequently hanged in 1883. As part of … are (i) occasional settlement…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… The rural African population changed from their pre-colonial status as pastoralist-cultivators to their current …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… were forced to work for European landowners to survive.The colonial government turned a blind eye to the widespread … people retained the same inferior…
The Afrikaner Bond
… type’; and he ‘took cognizance of Afrikanerdom beyond the Colonial frontiers’. The Spread of the Bond The rivalry … the Cape used its power to influence the…
Pedi
… now made of oil-drums and milk-urns. Land tenure The pre-colonial system of communal or tribal tenure which was … African region was cemented, but subtly…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… even though they were built without mortar. During the colonial period the Rhodesian government put great pressure … as such a wondrous ancient city did not…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… ‘postcolonial’ and ‘globalisation’ as reproducing neo-colonial relations, to explore “how economic imperatives of …
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… in accordance with the Natal Act No.14 of 1859 The Natal Colonial Government formulated legislation before indentured …
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… also affected South Africa. Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the ethnic and racial terms …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… the latter has appropriated from them. In this first anti-colonial Khoikhoi-Dutch War the settlers seek refuge in the … 30 head of cattle. This submission…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… apartheid was implemented and was already instituted by colonial authorities through various urban planning efforts. … in large-scale forced removals…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… Secretaries of Natal Indian Congress forwarded petition to Colonial Secretary against Immigration Law Amendment Bill. … deportees from India. September 26,…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… 1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes … Khoi in their own music making and in the dances of the colonial centre, Cape…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… Immigration Registration Bill (TIRB) is addressed to Colonial Secretary and circulated for signatures September … and wishes to meet Gandhi. January 30,…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… is very aware of David’s ‘conventional patriarchal and colonial prerogative’ (Boehmer 344) towards women, as he … black. David himself views his daughter’s…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… of the economic and emotional security within the pre-colonial family' (Walker 1990:19). For African women in the …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… River Police forces. With unification on 31 May 1910, colonial and city forces were still serving the country, but …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… acts as a buffer between the Afrikaners and British colonial interests, and supplies seasonal farm workers to …
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… been asked for by Moshoeshoe, where they are broken up by colonial forces. 1828 The Kora, under leadership of Jan …
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… 19 days from the date of its commission. On 24 April the Colonial Secretary visited Port Elizabeth, where he was … against the funds administered by the…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… Act and other segregationist laws. While the process of colonial expansion and land dispossession in Southern Africa … regulating ‘native’ land ownership…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… refreshing analysis that recognises the falsehood of the “colonial binaries that ... provide the scaffolding for … by Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), a…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… become part of a delegation to Lord Carnarvon, the colonial secretary. Kruger was to suggest a referendum, the …
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… and new forms of exploitation, the common references if colonial pasts. These themes being worked through were more …
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… therefore stands as a denial of white racist and colonial preconceptions which saw Ndebele society as being …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… and converted to Christianity. His father had fought with colonial forces in the Matabele (or Ndebele) rebellion in … of the black oppressed. Many clerks…