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EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… For the next decade Rhodesia was subjected to anti colonial struggles led by Zimbabwe African National Union … Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day in African History:…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… had increased to such an extent that that the Natal Colonial Secretary was forced to set up a special Indian …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… them into less fertile areas of the region. Soon the colonial project was well underway. With the systematic …
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of diamonds at Kimberly and of … was written by Honor Lay and forms part of the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… and costumes in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed … in 1960 and 1961. The air was redolent…
PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
… The town has a very interesting past and is steeped in history. All around the town is bits of interesting … https://www.mkhondo.gov.za/history-background/…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… so that they could be transferred elsewhere. The colonial secretary, Lord Harcourt, readily accepted Botha’s … rammed off the Isle of Wight in February 1917…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… Mandela. In the past 10 days, two towering figures in the history of South African music have died. Both were in their … Angels”. He continued to compose and…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… Sello Ramotse's plea was rejected. © Bailey's African History Archives TO WINNIE: I have been fairly successful in … I have pined for the family, alone,…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… weakened its grip over some young townsmen and that in the post-war period it was American culture that had cast its … at the Bantu Men's Social Centre. …
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … occasion, we are now served at special counters in the Post…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… White River Estates with HT Glynn as first chairman. 1918 Post Office opens in Nelspruit. 1919 Standard Bank opens a … monitoring station opens. 1958 10…
PlaceKleinzee, Northern Cape
Kleinzee is easy to find. Take the N7 from Cape Town, travel for about 560 km and then veer left at Springbok, following the course of the Skaap River, which…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… and died in very large numbers. The interpretation of this history in Australia is disputed and debated in what they call the 'History Wars', with…
The Storming: Insurrections Ensemble by Dilip Menon, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, June 2017
… about one language, a master language whether connected to history and territory or to the aspiration to universal … arrangement as befits the libretto that…
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… Christoffel Koopmans, who was an officer in the German Post Office. Marie and her husband were living in Wale Street … Iziko Museum, ‘ History of Koopmans-De…
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… to Joe Slovo and Chris Hani . She has since held the post of Minister for Welfare and Population Development until …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… acts against apartheid was when he quitted his teaching post in protest against the Bantu Education Act of 1953 …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… through a series of stamps issued by the South African Post Office. …
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… numerous pogroms endured by the Igbo people, the fact that post- independence Nigeria's borders were based on the …
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… and higher educational conditions of, first, the period post the Soweto uprising until the declaration of a … writing in 1983, concluded after a brief…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal … article in the New Age in London. …
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… was a decade which became a turning point in South African history. Popular protest by masses of ordinary South Africans …
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… reminder that police brutality is still happening in post-apartheid South Africa. Similarly, one of the public … on 11 March 2015]|Satgar, V. (2012). Beyond…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… Riebeeck leaves the Cape to become commander at the new post at Malacca. There are 40 free burghers with about 15 …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… and a move towards mass organisation. In the immediate post-Soweto period, amid government suppression, growing …
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil war was raged between two major … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… them ended disastrously for the British forces. The Colonial Office sent Roberts and Kitchener along with … Giliomee, H and Mbenga, B (2007) A New History of…
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…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… workers. To induce the coolies into second terms, the colonial government of Natal promised grants of land on … to work on the sugar plantations. However,…