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ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750
… Southern Africa experienced transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries. This was the period that became known as the ‘mfecane’. This topic includes…
ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition is a … secondary school teachers and learners in Grades 8 to 11. The aim of the competition is to increase…
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… The relationship between our Constitution and other laws The Constitution is a law passed by Parliament and it is the highest law in the land. All other laws…
Defining Black Consciousness
… " Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the Black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause …
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… There are two types of World Heritage Sites. The first represents cultural and the second natural heritage. Cultural sites Cultural heritage … This exchange…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic …
Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… For the student Discussion Questions Who was the founder of the Mali Empire? Which city was considered a centre of …
Bonani Africa 2010 Awards
… Thembinkosi Goniwe and Riason Naidoo has awarded the following photographers with a prize of R20 000.00 Chris … , Sabelo Mlangeni, Men only , Jabulani…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was founded in 1973. It organised in the passenger transport, goods transport, stevedores, motor … security…
ArticleMafika Pascal Gwala Annual Lecture
… The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South … History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal …
ArticleMafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017
… The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South … History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal …
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism like Capitalism and African Nationalism profoundly shaped the history of the country, and continues to influence the…
Glossary: Transport through time
… When we talk about ancient times, we usually talk about the period before Christ and before the fall of Rome in the year 476. Archaeologist Somebody who…
ArticleMads Nørgaard
… he emerged top of his class. Whether he is documenting the opening of parliament or the night train to Khayelitsha, the inevitable awkwardness that comes…
ArticleEarly civilisations
… In various parts of the world, different civilizations arose. Many of these major … of these civilizations may be found in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… wealthy from diamond mining, set his ambitions north of the Limpopo and tricked Lobengula, the King of the Ndebele into handing over his land. Ndebele…
Grade 8 Archive
… features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. The French Revolution: On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… National Archives The government archives service in South Africa houses and preserves the state records and other documents that have been collected since…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… Begins studying for a doctorate on Jean-Paul Sartre at the University of Paris under Professor Jean Wahl 1964-1966 … 1969 Teaches for six months as a…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… The economic activity of children African children living in Sophiatown were particularly vulnerable to the harshness of urban life. Schooling was not…
ArticlePAC’s African Women’s Organisation
… The aim of the African Women's Organisation is to rally African women under the banner of African Nationalism and to educate women … and to make them fully…
Alexia Webster
… in Cape Town. After completing a photography course at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, Alexia spent the next five years travelling through South…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted the charge that South African movement was…
Glossary: Local History
… Account A record or description of past events. Archaeology The study of pre-historic people and their culture. Banished … Colonialist Someone who believes…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 4: Communication through time
… over time and how many forms of communication have stayed the same. We first learn about the oldest forms of communication, using the San people as an…
Assessment task: Fascism and Nazism
… (Deutsches Historisches Museum) Question 1: Refer to the photographs of Hitler in Source A. These photographs were used in anti-Hitler propaganda leaflets…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… The Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was the first South African trade union federation that organised … Black trade union movements. It…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… 1971 Closure of The Classic , by Nat Nakasa , editor. Publication of ‘ Sounds … is published,illustrated with his own woodcuts. 1974 The Writer’s and Artist…
ArticleCommercial, Catering & Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA)
… SACCAWU was founded as CCAWUSA (The Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union of South Africa) in 1975, with Emma Mashinini as the general secretary…
ArticleSouth Africa - First 20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014)
… South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations … among various political parties,…