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The First Slaves at the Cape
… were two so called ‘Arabian’ slave girls from Abyssinia, present day Ethiopia. They had been brought to the Cape by … of 6 495 guilders and a lot of land on…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… and causes responsible for the tragic alcohol abuse in present day South Africa’s Western Cape farming communities … out of oppression and alcohol dependency…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… could exchange experiences and lessons drawn from past and present struggles. It was non-sectarian and open to …
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… with an invasion of the Transvaal from Bechuanaland (present day Botswana), by Dr Leander Starr Jameson. Rhodes …
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… I will be seeing you soon if all goes well. I am at present doing night duty so don't be surprised at seeing many …
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… ten of the top designers. Three designers were chosen to present their concepts to the Cabinet. Mr Iaan Bekker's …
ArticleThe Khoisan
… In around 2300 BP (Before Present), hunter-gatherers called the San acquired domestic …
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… Nubian people kept their culture and traditions until the present day. An example of Nubian writing and the lion headed …
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… TRC are even more gruesome. Throughout the Witwatersrand (present day Gauteng), where popular violence involving the …
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… with an invasion of the Transvaal from Bechuanaland (present day Botswana), by Dr Leander Starr Jameson . Rhodes …
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… character of this process of giving meaning to past, present and future). ↵ [xiv] Sofie M.M.A. Geschier, ‘So there …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… is the chairman of the meeting and among those present are Lutchman Panday, A. Christopher, S.K. Pather, …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… Nguni. These people were probably the ancestors of present-day Tlhako, neighbours of the Fokeng. When …
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - 6 November 2025
The ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material Yunus Carrim Collection 06 November 2025 What is this about? The material in this collection was used to put together…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Forced Removals 'I Photographed Fietas - Pageview -- in 76/77, both before and during the destruction of the area … as part of In/Sight, African…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… location which is still visited by his descendants to the present day. Almost inevitably his sons quarreled over their … what was, after all, an internecine…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… equality of all before the law. WE AGREE that the present and future participants shall be entitled to put …
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… long fine wool Mineral : a substance that is naturally present in the earth and is not formed from animal or …
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… the British government not to accept the Union in its present form. This delegation was led by former Cape Prime …
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… – nicknamed ' dompas ' (' dumb pass" in Afrikaans). Being present in urban areas without a valid pass, Blacks were …
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
Indentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa By Brij Maharaj 15 Nov 2023 Dr Brij Maharaj is an academic…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… Black Alliance failed to take off. Likewise efforts to present himself as a national politician, for example through …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… of an offensive “white” consensus in which, for the present, the extreme values of the Broederbond predominated. … policies differ in degree ”¦ but the…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… secondly through VOC ‘return’ fleets sailing from Ceylon, present day Sri Lanka, and the East Indies back to the … to the Cape colony. Therefore, the VOC…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… in Dundee, Northern Natal. Whites retained all their present area and gain some properties. Coloured-people gained … at the expensive of Indians. Indians…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… Ibid. ↵ [lxxxvi] Ibid. ↵ [lxxxvii] Ibid. Page 76. ↵ [lxxxviii] Ibid. ↵ [lxxxix] Ibid. ↵ [xc] Ibid. ↵ …
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… varied greatly. This is a trend that continues in the present day (Mabin, 1992b: 14). The Glen Gray Act of 1894 … South Africans because many of them had…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… an agent able to influence which parts of themselves they present to the world. Heritage Heritage might be best broken …
Griqua
… who managed to obtain burgher rights and a farm near the present Piketberg, founded the most vigorous mixed community. …
Griqua community
… who managed to obtain burgher rights and a farm near the present Piketberg, founded the most vigorous mixed community. …