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ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… The Silk Roads were already in use in the late Bronze Age, though intensive use of cross-desert roads was triggered … observers of Islamic law, gave the…
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
… university infrastructure development by years. In this age, where we are talking about lack of accommodation … since January 2004, been incorporating and…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… This rivalry was called the Cold War . The content of the new history curriculum is structured to help us to understand … equal protection for all citizens…
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… Cape. The young Mbeki joined the ANC Youth League at the age of 14 and became active in student politics. After his … chose Mbeki to be the first deputy…
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
… Tutankhamun was pharaoh during the Egyptian period of the New Kingdom. Descending from the eighteenth dynasty, he became pharaoh at the age of nine and his…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… of townships, the apartheid regime inadvertently formed a new movement and genre of music, Township Jazz. Ansell … which translated into his love for the…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… [3] The Red location was the predecessor of what became as New Brighton Township where Matomela passed most of her time … of Africans from Korsten, Fairview…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… life by singing and playing piano as a child. At the age of 14, he developed a strong passion to become a trumpet … and all those people had. I was really…
Doing Oral History
… and the occupants were refused permission to build new structures or repair the old ones. This commonly happened … the inhabitants were removed from Roosboom…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… remind me with some finality that I shall be entering the new millennium without a job. I am not sure how many … man, even a former President, with nothing…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… of Good Hope in 1652, they brought advanced weapons and new diseases. The European diseases, such as small pox, … clever the San were! Even though the San…
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… to support the Indian community fighting against the new legislation that was violating the land right of Indians … 13 March 2010, she passed away in Durban…
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… especially subjects like mathematics, and at the early age of 19 he became an assistant at a school. He went on to … in 1828 but Fallows was unable to take…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth League, a new leadership came to power in the ANC. Walter Sisulu was … sometimes decided on whippings for…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… independence for her country until she died at the tender age of 25. 7 April marks the day she died – a day celebrated … on her ideological partner, Samora,…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… obvious he was furious at becoming ill. He seemed angry as age and frailty restricted his movements. As though he resented age standing in the way of his…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
… [1] Ntuli left the UK to study at the Pratt Institute in New York, USA, where he received a Masters of Fine Arts and a …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… Bishop John Walker of Washington DC, Bishop Paul Moore of New York and numerous prominent individuals and groups wrote …
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… Nile. The earliest inhabitants of this region were Stone-Age hunter-gatherers who found the area rich in wildlife. Big … The cultures of many groups blended…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… exile before passing away in West Berlin, Germany at the age of 39. Dyani actively fought against the apartheid regime … of jazz music, so the group split…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… should know better – write crudely of ‘chanting mobs’. New songs, such as the woke anthem, ( … ) receive minimal coverage. But new music demanding change is…
ArticleNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu’s “Mother of the Nation” Legacy
… qualities are said to have been cultivated from a young age when she had to take care of her siblings, stepping in … with a workload that would exhaust most…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… but soon took over the nation’s airwaves. She died at the age of 40 in 2004. Her hit songs – like Weekend Special , Too … to the political moment, capturing…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… 27 September 2010 The Guptas launch their newspaper, The New Age. At the ANC’s national general council, Pallo Jordan holds up a copy of The New Age…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… expansion in Africa and Asia was trade and the search for new markets. The need for labour to sustain trade created a … Japan, Macau, Malacca, West Indies,…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province. It is on the … have been a successor state, being…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of the new Christian converts. Sekoto was schooled at Wonderhoek, … of Sophiatown. Sekoto passed away on…
EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
… and as a young man developed a love for reading. At the age of 14, Garvey went left for Kingston to work in a … the United States, Garvey held his first…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… Indian, Coloured and African – was forced to raise the new apartheid flag in celebration of the Republic Day and to …
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
… Jacob Zuma unbundled the Education portfolio into two new, separate ministries. Motshekga was appointed Minister of …