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Mission Stations - N-S
… Matatiele, Cape: UPCM NEWTONDALE , Peddie, Cape: WMS 1840. The mission was destroyed as the result of hostilities during 1846. It resumed its … James…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa The feature on Indian South Africans forms part of our…
EPILOGUE
… 1992. It is unfortunate that your reply has not addressed the issues I raised in my memorandum of the 26th June, 1992. Instead, you deliberately obscure … a…
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… In this topic, we will identify and explain the changes that took place in Europe between 1750 and 1850. Change is the driving force in history. Without…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… elections of 1994. It is significant because it marks the end of over three hundred years of colonialism, segregation and white minority rule and the…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… national and international scale. However, information on the lives and works of these authors are scant. Having said that, the aim of this article is to…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… Can you create music that can find a home on both sides of the Indian Ocean beyond the cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian forms compatible with their African…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… Umkhonto we Sizwe logo 16 December 1961 is seen as the date of formation because Umkhonto performed its first … this date. Popularly called Dingaans Day and…
Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa (FATSSA)
… The Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa was founded in 1938 in Krugersdorp by the representatives of 20 amateur dramatic societies in…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… Introduction The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the self-governing British colonies of the Natal, Cape, …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… Race and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since the European colonisation. South Africa…
Hinduism
… believe that everything comes from God and that he is like the root of a tree, while the rest of the world is the branches and leaves of the tree. They feel …
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West Province . The…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… gave you their story to date. When we got here we found the party split sideways and endways with quarrels, intrigues, backbiting etc to incredible lengths…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… The identity of the Afrikaner Jew - what personifies the Boerejood ? A Boerejood (‘farmer Jew’) or Boerejode (plural) is the term used to identify South…
Robben Island
… Unesco declared Robben Island in the Western Cape a World Heritage Site in 1999. Robben Island … ground, a mental hospital and an outpost. Initially the…
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… Ndebele , and belong to three major family groups: the Msiza, the Bhuda, and the Skosana. They originally lived on the farm …
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It emphasises the collective of a specific nation. As an ideology, nationalism holds that…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… The name of Dr William Fehr should be familiar to many of … visited Castle Good Hope in Cape Town at least once during the last fifty years. Young and old…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… 1835 Migration of disaffected Dutch farmers from the Cape Colony 1836 Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg … reaches Delagoa Bay 1849 Treaty of Derdepoort…
ArticleBambatha Rebellion 1906
… In mid 1906, the Natal colonialist in the face of rising Zulu resentment against the imposition of a 'Poll Tax' unleashed one of the most …
ArticleA White Referendum
… On 2 November 1983, the government held a referendum to gauge White opinion on the new constitution and tricameral parliament – it baulked at allowing…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… 1930 Born in Randfontein, South Africa, in 1930, the third son of Eli Goldblatt and Olga Light, both of whom … to South Africa as children with their parents…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… democratic system was endorsed by voters drawn from across the country’s racial divide in April 1994. There is little … with historically white political…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era outside the country, by contributing to the advancement of Black filmmaking, and…
June 17
… The second day... was marked by uncontrollable fury and … fist and shout "Power", into their face Many others joined the original protesters. Not everyone…
ArticleCODESA 1 Timeline
… 21 August 1989: OUA publishes the publishes the Harare Declaration. January 1991: Nelson Mandela calls for an all-party congress to negotiate the way to a…
Bloemfontein - segregation in education
… Africa White schools Initial education requirements set in the 19th century in the Free State were not high, and it was considered adequate … This perception…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs The Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West…
ArticleAfrapix
… in 1981. This collective played a seminal role in the development of a socially informed school of documentary photography in apartheid South Africa. The…