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ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… and resistance, and the white settlers demanded that the colonial government take action to deal with it. In February … by Chakijana kaGezindaba, Bambatha…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… left the farms and joined the Xhosa in a rebellion against colonial rule, commonly known as the Third Frontier War (1799-1803). These Khoi ex-servants…
EventBambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata
… Rebellion can be traced to the sustained pressure by colonial authorities on traditional societies in order to … for sugar plantations and the heavy tax…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… as a source of cheap labour for the white-controlled Natal colonial agricultural economy. The list can be searched by: … one's ancestors - Often serial…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… wrought on African societies by the imposition of European colonial rule occurred in quick succession. In fact, it was the speed with which change occurred…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… in a mostly bloodless coup, thereby ending Portuguese colonial rule in Africa. Thus, Angola attained official … Angola’s hard-won victory problematic. As…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… Albert Christopher and PR Pather breaking away to form the Colonial Born and Settler Indian Association (CBSIA) - this …
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… produce to the market. In addition to participating in the colonial economy, they sought to use the colonial political systems and institutions for their own…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… interests include the history of Islamic law, anti-colonial resistance movements, and indigenous history. … Science. Her academic areas of interest are…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… The exploitation of convict labour at the Cape during the Colonial era is closely connected with the work of John Montagu, Colonial Secretary for the Cape…
Khoisan Identity
… settlers from 1652, and the establishment and growth of colonial settlements over the ensuing two and a half … were dispossessed of most of their land uring…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… for nearly a hundred years. This was largely due to colonial expansion which in turn dispossessed Xhosa and … one; other Xhosa ethnic groups cooperated with…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Meeting of Durban residents resolved to petition the Colonial Government for the establishment of municipal … posting in West Africa. Finding itself short of…
BiographyAlfred Mangena
Alfred Mangena was born in Escort in present day Kwazulu Natal circa 1879. He managed to acquire little formal public education, and eventually began to study…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
BiographyRobert Broom
Professor Robert Broom was born on 30 November 1866 Paisley, Scotland to a poor family. He was educated as a doctor and received his degree from the University…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… of the nature and basis of the power of chiefs in pre-colonial African societies. They believed that traditional … to 30 locations in a district. A headman,…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… was formed when the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association (CBSIA) … members of the NIC resigned and formed a body…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… on the eastern frontier however, although annexed by the colonial authorities, were retained largely as 'tribal … wage labour but the weak administrative…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… beliefs. The first Indians arrived during the Dutch colonial era, as slaves, in 1684. A conservative calculation … that the indentured Indians were to work…
BiographyMary Elizabeth Davis
Mary Elizabeth Davis was born in Portobello County, Edinburgh, Scotland on 26 December 1858. She was a business person and supporter of women’s causes. Davis…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… devastated by the Atlantic Slave Trade. 1659-1799 With the Colonial administrations facing a labour shortage due to Khoi … at the Cape. 1800-1886 The advent…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… for historians to construct narratives of precolonial and colonial history in Southern Africa is derived from the … of the indigenous people of Southern…
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… also affected South Africa. Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the ethnic and racial terms …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750
… from the idea of the mfecane, which is linked to outdated, colonial-era ideas of the centrality of the ‘wars of Shaka’. …
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… War 1899 - 1902 South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917) Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900 First Anglo Boer …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent. Colonial conquest and rapid land dispossession was … This opened up the interior of South Africa…
BiographyDan Sleigh
… (1602 -1795), with a specific focus on the first Dutch colonial period at the Cape and the influence of maritime …
ArticleKora
… cattle and land raids came to a head in 1868, when the colonial government created a special magisterial district. … the Korana 'raid' leaders and handed…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… took back control again. Angola only became a Portuguese colonial settlement after the decline of the slave trade in … Importantly, the abolition of slavery…