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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,…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… innovation and inquisitive mind make him an unforgettable colonial character, and his writings fascinating and enduring …
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 … topics.nytimes.com [accessed 01…
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 …
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… there are also many concrete structures in the Portuguese colonial style. Many people still live in barrack-like accommodations on the plantations. Decades…
Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… Institutions of learning became centre to challenge colonial domination and injustice, for this, the thorny gown … in a different setting. Our countries are…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… for the Black majority who had been subjected first to colonial oppression (link to Grade 11, Colonialism, … democratic system. There is also a third…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… this venue. Collecting, documenting, counting, archiving, history and texts produce works such as the 121 cut-out … haves and the have-nots that still…
TCOE Online Exhibition
… Photo-documentary Exhibition and Land dispossession history The text and gallery of images within this feature …
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
… go ahead. City Hall will also be used as the venue for the post-SONA debates, safeguarding the stability of an important institution in our democracy. The…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… and the virtual end of the era of colonialism in world history. The empires of Britain, France, Portugal, Holland, … of liberation of South Africa was a…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… in the Cape Colony were ‘prize negroes’. [xlix] The colonial government, however, was not in favour of this state … Community of Cape Town. However, the past…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… each year from an archive of San narratives recorded by colonial linguists Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek in the 1870s. …
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… people everywhere in the world. And having fought colonial domination in Algeria, they know what is involved in …
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… and old farmhouses that smack of the luxuries of a bygone colonial era. During the harvest (April to September), …
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… old coastal town. It is home to the City Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the mid-1800’s. Its clock …
EventPope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who were persecuted and martyred from 1885
… on 3 June1886. In the last week of May the new King of pre-colonial Buganda, ordered the arrest and detention of a …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… for the trek was the general dissatisfaction with British colonial rule in the Cape Colony. The language (Afrikaans), … Cameron, T. (ed) (1986) An…
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Hendrik Prinsloo planned an uprising against the British colonial government as they believed that the British favored …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… of Samuel Maharero started a rebellion against German colonial rule. With good knowledge of the terrain and … at: absoluteastronomy.com [Accessed on 3 August…