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ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… accuses Transvaal Government of waging war on Indian women and children by demanding they carry passes. September … "Transvaal Leader" for alleging that…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… 350 000 people died from AIDS in South Africa in 2007. Women face a greater risk of HIV infection. On average in South Africa there are three women infected…
BiographyCassim Mahomed Lakhi
… instead. He was appointed lecturer in the Department of History of Art. He headed the Department from its inception …
BiographyKewpie
… District Six” unearthed an entire archive of local queer history. In 2018, the annual District Six Heritage Day Parade …
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… and severe as that between Bantus and Whites. In resisting colonial expansion, Black African rulers founded sizable and … with itself and the world" (Manzo…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with Rhodes to try to … illustration by P. W. Wheeler, taken…
UCT Summer School 2020
… Please note the following history related courses will be offered at the 2020 UCT … in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, the Cape Colonial frontier zone…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… CAPS Requirements for Term 2 History Term 2 Topic: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa … of compound system from Kimberley) o Increasing burden on women…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… under old NMC legislation on 18 May 1979. The Horrible History and many names of Thaba Tshwane; South Africans just … the ANC to rid the Area’s Heritage of…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… the highly politicised anti-apartheid Black Sash , a White women’s resistance organisation. Through the Black Sash, she …
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… deny she played an even bigger part in the South African history. During her time in exile she became very outspoken … at the same time he admits “unlike…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… often had to supplement their incomes with the help of women and children. Black women, in particular, demonstrated their resilience and … go to jail whilst…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… sent him to prison for discipline. He thrice reported to colonial authorities the ill treatment he received from his … again. In June 1658 seven Angolan…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902), the influence of the English colonial presence spread all over the country and established … British culture in that particular…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… them ended disastrously for the British forces. The Colonial Office sent Roberts and Kitchener along with … they received from the civilian populations,…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… , a basic introduction on Marxist materialist view of history and class struggle, played a huge role in Motlanthe’s … 9 August 1987, NUM embarked on the…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… Life of Elizabeth Davenport In 1955 a group of six White women living in Cape Town, South Africa gathered together for … to children as a teacher. She taught…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… community survival strategies. Regrettably, this history of struggle, resistance and resilience of indentured … from the University of Cambridge contended…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… - this sort of myth was rife in the Rhodesian settler-colonial imagination. Having been met with resistance from … Hegel's influential sentiment that "Africa…
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… part of a Mandate of the League of Nations. In 1917, the colonial government imposed a dog tax on the Bondelswarts, … unclear as to whether it was the South…
ArticleThe Johanna
… Many of the artefacts now reside at the Iziko Social History Centre, in Cape Town. The centre houses Social History collections and archives. The Johanna is…
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
… was considered to be a distinguished member of the British colonial army, and he was lauded at home for establishing the Boy Scout movement, which still…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… slavery became an important factor in Central African history as Arabic-speaking slave traders extended the … the people . Company overseers forced both men…
PlaceEdenburg, near Bloemfontein
… Riet River and its many small tributaries. There have been Postal Coach Tracks discovered, dating back to 21 February …
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
… Africa, 1652-1927’, became a standard work on the early history of finance and banking in South Africa. Arndt was …
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… who know as intimately what it means to suffer under colonial domination and imperialist plunder. It is fortunate … compromise nor peaceful coexistence. The…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… W.E.B. Du Bois, a staunch advocate of African culture and history, who propounded the idea that colonialism lay at the … voiced the importance of economic…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… earlier movement of African migrants in search of work in colonial labour markets was greatly accelerated . As the … on their land and encroached on African…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Bibliography
… 1980. Carton, Benedict. Blood from your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa . … Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo…
ArticlePretoria (Tshwane): The Naming of a City
… should be changed to ‘Tshwane’. Because of South Africa’s history of Apartheid and the racism embedded in the country’s … believed to be the name of the son…