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ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… They guessed the move was to prepare him for a senior post in the defence force of a putative post-apartheid South Africa. The police haul of documentation …
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… entered Bethesda Road near Graaff Reinet and ransacked its Post Office. Four days later, on 10 August, they captured a … the Village, and on the evening of…
ArticleTswana
… nineteenth century and most belong to a church today, pre-colonial beliefs retain strength among many Tswana. … facilitated the transition to migrant wage…
Open Talk with Grada Kilomba
… on her work dealing with gender, race, trauma, memory and post-colonialism. The audience will be invited to engage in …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), leaving the post in 1984 …
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… as coach, presumably because he did not apply for the post. This happened though his current contract specified …
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… for the erection of a memorial to Sontonga on the first post-apartheid Heritage Day. On 18 April 2005 the …
EventNiger's Independence Day
… in July 1960 to dissolve the French West African colonial state and grant independence to the four regions … st/abstract.html?res…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… signaled an important phase in the struggle against colonial domination in the sub continent. Under his …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… sovereignty of the British government in respect of its colonial possessions was violated by South African security. …
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… was annexed as three French departments. During the colonial period the traditional patterns of land ownership … Micro History and World timeline, Algeria…
EventWW2: Italy invades Ethiopia
… of expansion were not different from that of other colonial powers in Africa. The aim of invading Ethiopia was … 27 September 2013]| Toynbee, A. 1946. A…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… career as a cook in the King's African Rifles and British Colonial Army in Uganda in 1956. He distinguished himself as …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the … Available at: news.bbc.co.uk [Accessed 27 November 2013]|History…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… in an attempt to regain Somali territory lost prior to the colonial period. Although the attack was suppressed the … Bobby-Evans, A., This day in African…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… The Mfengu (or Fingo in the colonial lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King …
EventJan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time
… were sent to the island; first by the Dutch, then British colonial officials. It was under the Apartheid regime that …
PlaceQuadrant House, 114-115 Victoria Embankment, Durban
… `Berea Style' which arose from local interest in Spanish Colonial Architecture as found, on the West Coast of North … Amalinde Heritage Trust. 2010. Durban :…
Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
… strongly reflected the interests of the indentured and colonial-born Indian. Together they resisted inroads, pleaded …
ArticleContemporary South African Artists
… the month of August 2016, in honor of women, South Africa History Online (SAHO) began collaborating with Artthrob in an …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… strikes marked a decisive turning point, not only in the history of South African labour relations, but in the history of South African society as a whole…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… at the Cape. Jan Van Riebeeck wrote the following in his diary: Jan Van Riebeeck Image source "I don't want to use our …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… to the hut tax which was imposed on the Zulu by British Colonial rule. The SANC and the Transvaal Native Congress …
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… and the whole whitewashed. On 22 December 1787, the Colonial Secretary , Mr A. Barnard, gave orders that Mr Trail … of defects. On receipt of this…
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
… Especially in the case of the latter it is clear from post-election statistics that a significant measure of … structures have also been relegated to the…
PlaceAdelaide, Eastern Cape
… Boswell Armstrong, (1787-1862). Founded a Military Post there and named it Fort Adelaide in 1834. After the wife …
Grade 9 Archive
… it is important to avoid simple answers to complex history. The Holocaust raises difficult questions about human …
Cecile Mella
… in the south of France in 1983. After studying literature, history and philosophy, she switched to film studies and …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… rivalry was called the Cold War . The content of the new history curriculum is structured to help us to understand the … Union, a communist totalitarian…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… and was the first ever national strike in the country’s history. In particular, the African work force in the Cape … has been seen by some as a turning…