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The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… UN actions in subsequent decades, including the 1962 establishment of the Special Committee Against Apartheid and …
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… reviewed by Comrade DG Wolton, who stressed the growth of colonial liberation movements and the colonial workers' growing unity with the workers of the home …
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
… rivalry was called the Cold War . The content of the new history curriculum is structured to help us to understand the …
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 1: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… This topic describes the history of the southern African kingdoms of Mapungubwe, …
ArticleProvincial histories
… The different provinces each have their own special history and each one contributes to making South Africa the …
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… ideology of Black Consciousness manifested itself in the establishment of the BPC, which was founded by leaders of the … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999)…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… historians in the world. In his twelve volume A Study of History he argued that the critically important factor in … of the rapid decolonisation of Africa…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… that I was not welcome in South Africa because of my "history", and added somewhat apologetically that she was … documented. I had never expected this…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… mended, would tell Nwapa fascinating stories of Igbo history, and mythology, of goddesses, and magic. Despite … tales, Nwapa’s childhood marked a time in [2]…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… and philosopher, wrote in his multivolume "Natural History": "Ex Africa semper aliquid novi," or for those who … Belgium, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands,…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… Cape Town, I thought we should pay some attention to the history of our people, many of whom lived in this part of our … Bushmen. Many of us, South Africans,…
PlaceFort Beaufort/KwaMaqoma- Amatola District, Eastern Cape
… displaying military items and exhibiting a wealth of history. Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve , just 25 kilometers …
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
… of the Huguenots who came to the Cape begins with a long History of Religious warfare and persecution in France. …
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… innovation and inquisitive mind make him an unforgettable colonial character, and his writings fascinating and enduring …
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… and Port St Johns. It was back in 1890's that the Cape Colonial Lighthouse Commission, originally recommended … entire cost of coast lighting being provided…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South Africa, the …
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… under French rule in 1892. After almost seventy years of colonial rule, Mali was renamed the Sudanese Republic, … Mali History. Encyclopedia of the Nations …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… Prinsloo, organised an uprising against the British colonial power. The rebellion was quickly quashed, with a … Muller, C.F.J. (ed) (1981). Five Hundred…
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… the drain in a split second. Mugabe even challenged former colonial ruler Britain, saying that if she wanted to see the …
EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… In 1900, C James, an official of the British colonial administration, went on a voyage to South Africa to …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… the Lancaster agreements in which Britain, as the former colonial power, agreed to pay for the reacquisition of land …
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… tradition maintains that he drank mainly at meetings with colonial officials, who deliberately plied him with alcohol …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… held the belief that the true plotters were land-hungry colonial authorities. … Cameron, T. (ed)(1986). An Illustrated History of South Africa, Johannesburg…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… question the methods entailed in rewriting or reclaiming history. Mnyele and the cultural collective he was allied to, … making. Art institutions are also…
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… was a racially segregated sport. So committed were the colonial and apartheid masters to segregation that they would … scored would be a step closer to his…
Vella Pillay
… I can give is that this community derived from along history and over several generations of miscegenation between …
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… the moment’ during a turbulent period of South Africa’s history that held a great potential for radical … the factories. The major part of this essay locates…
PlaceUniversity of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School
… university. The influx of students necessitated the establishment of the Faculties of Law, Education, and Social …
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… was soon forgotten. Women played a significant role in the establishment and running of the UDF, and women's …
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid
… The Union Buildings was commissioned as part of the establishment of the Union of South Africa. Prior to this, …