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PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… reason for this infestation lay in decisions made by the colonial authorities. It was an era before the advent of … are no longer legally bound by racial…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Introduction
… Wayne Dooling, focuses on the development in the Cape of a colonial slave society, one of the models identified in … and European, the chapter turns to the…
PlaceLuthuli House Museum, KwaDukuza
… curatorial baggage of those museums instituted during the colonial and apartheid periods. This has allowed the Luthuli …
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… study will also increase our understanding of Islam in Colonial South Africa. While South Africa’s Muslims are … in Durban, it was also a major source of…
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 … non-governmental organisations,…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… polity. Their homesteads only began to be painted by their women in a distinctive polychromatic style sometime between … Ndebele teachers were prohibited…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… Town: Between East and West: Social Identities in a Dutch Colonial Town, viii. ↵ [5] J. Fourie, “Slaves as capital … P. Svensson, eds., Agricultural…
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
… Conference South African trade unions have a long and rich history of inventing creative approaches to workers’ … fellow union members, but also as ‘teachers…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
PlaceHermannsburg School and Mission Museum, (Greytown)
… House, was officially inaugurated as a Museum to house the History and artefacts of our beloved Missionaries. The …
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… Location: back to this day in history search archive The Liquor Act, which was passed on 23 … illegal enterprises such as shebeens and beer brewing by women,…
Address to the Biennial Meeting of the Association for The Development of Education in Africa (Adea), Johannesburg, 6 December 1999
… task at hand is magnified when we consider the legacy of colonial education, the long-term effects of the domination … the incorporation of the African…
PlaceLesotho
… territory of Basutoland played an important role in the Colonial History of Southern Africa. The first formal contact between … are above male literacy rates…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
… the sea. The buildings are well preserved and carry a long history that represents the development of Swahili building … locations. Raya Famau Ahmed Raya is…
ArticleLives of Courage
… The writing of the history of the Liberation Struggle only began in earnest … of major initiatives have been undertaken to write this history, we have yet to…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… 1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes … band became perhaps the biggest stars in South Africa's history, reforming the…
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… reap, others to protect herds, and yet others to help the women and children who were fleeing from place to place …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Mali and Nigeria. Much of what we know about the early history of West Africa comes from medieval accounts written … a new momentum in the Ghana Empire and…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… about through defining moments in South Africa’s Apartheid history while still being able to remain hopeful and loving. … many of whom were interested in the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… documentation drives David Goldblatt. Like those earliest colonial adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, … clear, his appraisal is charged with the…
PlacePosthuys
… First recorded on a map in 1687, the actual origins and history of this building are still a subject of debate, but … worth a visit for those interested in…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… was one of the periods of heightened activity in the history of the TIYC. Members like Moosa Moolla actively … decade. Amina Cachalia in her autobiography:…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… Image source Through archaeological research and San oral history or storytelling we know that there were a lot of San … medicine. San Bushmen Image Source…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… the eastern seaboard offered many advantages to the Cape's colonial government. It was an ideal landing place for …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 104th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… and a valuable ally to the ANC. Sixty years since the Women’s March to the Union Buildings, protesting against the … society. As South Africans, we continue…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 52 … that the white population of SA in…
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… from and how they got here because there is no recorded history. They have a rich oral history and the stories that have been passed on along with ……
ArticleMcGill University Project
… History students working under Dr. Jon Soske from McGill … an exciting online collaboration with South African History Online (SAHO). Over the course of two…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… Luxemburg and Gramsci with the insurgent claims of anti-colonial writers like Aimé Césaire, C. L. R. James and Frantz … Discussion, she developed her…
Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigning (FAK)
… of the Afrikaner people. Although not primarily a women's organisation, the FAK did include the Suid Afrikaanse … Vroue Vereniging, which both encouraged…