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PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… in it's wine quality, list of clientele, building's architecture, friendly employees, History of slaves and their … Groot Constantia has stood the test of…
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… were built, flood control was introduced as was soil conservation. The valley was regenerated. National Labour … who felt the whole idea smacked of socialism…
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… for the British colonials," says Raimundo Cardoso, a conservation architect. At the time you could build a house … establish locally " a better and more…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
… he started a paper, Indaba Zasemonti (East London News), a Xhosa-English weekly in which he lashed out at the injustices …
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
… the longest decorated wall in the entire sub-region. The architecture of the site and the archaeological artefacts … testimony to a civilization which has…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… name was changed to Gqeberha. ( This not only embraced its Xhosa Heritage but celebrated its iconic River.) It was Boy … is regarded as one of the best…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… became known as the Transkei. The historical record shows Xhosa lived on the banks of the Buffalo River in 1686 and … a systematic conquest of the Tembus,…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to … of the Eastern…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… of Frescura's work. This archive includes sections on architecture, urbanisation and housing, lectures, tutorials … in 1982 in the field of the indigenous…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… the precipitation of the destruction of the precolonial Xhosa nation and their society. As a backdrop to this … event, it is critical to hold an…
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… Desert in Namibia 1960 The Department of Nature Conservation began to take over large sections of the …
Araminta de Clermont
… works in Cape Town. Studied at University College London (Architecture), Central St Martin?s School Of Art, London …
ArticleThe San
… to the classical age of Greece and Rome when art and architecture had reached its zenith. San rock art is one of … thirty years ago. In the 1960s, the…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
Magasvarie ‘Maggie’ Govender was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Durban Central. When she was eleven years old, due to the Group…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and the British clashed … due to colonial expansion which in turn…
Address at the launch of the Kruger National Park Centenary Celebrations Skukuza, 26 March 1998
… Board; Distinguished guests; Ngwenyama;Amakhosi, Bayede! Conservation in its nature is directed both to the past and … great pleasure to celebrate the…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… was as follows: There were three groups of people: The Xhosa, who had lived there for hundreds of years. The … needed land for their families and their…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… position. Bathurst is renowned for its quaint and very old architecture. The oldest Building in Bathurst is the powder … Church (1837). The settlers…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… groups: namely, the Nguni groups which consist of Zulu, Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi peoples; the Sesotho-Setswana … (13.5%), Ndebele (2.1%), Sepedi/Northern…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… Oswald, an activists who had just completed his studies on architecture through an ANC scholarship was unperturbed by …
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… are found. Several well-preserved examples of 19th-Century Architecture enhance the charm of the City... (listed in … conflict, courage, despair and success…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… who had deserted the area due to attacks by the Khoi and Xhosa return. May, A peace settlement is reached between the … 700 men of the Cape Regiment drive an…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… Town Journal argued in 1838, for example, that the Xhosa had been “the usurpers of the whole of the territory … and violence". The British were convinced…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… when Khoi and San servants left the farms and joined the Xhosa in a rebellion against colonial rule, commonly known as … a buffer zone to prevent conflict…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… Such an enquiry clearly makes little sense, for the Xhosa, Zulu, Pedi, Dinka, Himba, Berber, Arab, and so forth … Contained within South Africa's borders…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… thirty years ago. In the 1960s, the Department of Nature Conservation began to take over large sections of the …
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… their skilled and varied beadwork, their clear language of architecture, and their stately forms of dress have made them … of material culture, and more…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
Zuleikha Mayat was born in 1926 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province). Her father, Mohamed Bismilla, was a prominent business person who first…