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ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… He is intricately linked to this concept. Knowing your history These days, I’m forced to read a lot of history to understand the difficult times my father…
Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters
… In them, the political figure often remembered through history books appears as husband, father and friend, writing … Workshop, the exhibition reflects on…
Grade 6 term 1 classroom support
… A ACTIVITY PLANNING OVERVIEW Subjects covered: English, History (social sciences), Connecting Classroom themes: … 3. Describe the society – rich…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… Her Bible takes pride of place in the Village’s Cultural History Museum.) Once again there were all sorts of … congregation. The Khoisan laws of 1808…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… entry of new groups into the labour market, notably white women and blacks. Many black families from the rural areas … unrest during the war years were of an…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… a century ago, on January 8, 1912, was a landmark in the history of Africa, marking the beginning of the end of … people in South Africa. In June, African…
PlaceFish River Canyon
… Creating fascinating insights into the geology and History of Namibia and much more! The Fish River Canyon forms … from local rock , in to a house for …
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… political approaches. 13 Gender and consciousness Indian women, like their African, Coloured and white counterparts, … attempted to marry the insights gained…
Address by President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of SANDF and Patron-in-Chief of Military Veterans at the funeral of Major General (retired) Mongameli Johnson Tshali (aka Lennox Lagu), Thaba Tshwane, 17 September 2011
… Chief of the SANDF General Solly Shoke, Officers, men and women of the South African National Defence Force, Members … Lennox Lagu, sadly passed on. He did…
Articlehoz tab example
… “Towards a People’s History…” South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people's history … Rassool works with old museums that are changing their…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… on the conditions of native Angolans under Portuguese colonial rule, warning that the apartheid state was equally … on black people’s rights in the same way…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… not only changed farming techniques, but also the role of women in communities. Source: http://www.ls.net African … and were essential to the farmers'…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… benefits not only the powerful but also the men, women and children whose lives are ravaged by poverty. … were subordinated to the interests of more powerful…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… the Defiance Campaign. Florence Matomela, one of the first women volunteers in the Defiance Campaign is arrested and … of three white men, including Patrick…
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
… Lord Robert's only son was killed in action. The Colonial Office sent massive troop reinforcements under the … did not expect. The failure of these campaigns…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… one of those troughs in Indian affairs which mark their history in this country. For redress of their grievances they … political body which called itself…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… is represented in parliament. This feature focuses on the history of the PAC’s contribution to the struggle against … " outlines the chronological events in…
Address to CODESA by comrade Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC 20 December 1991
… of South Africa: Today will be indelibly imprinted in the history of our country. If we, who are gathered here respond … position. All three declarations…
PlacePrince Alfred House, Waterloo Road, Wynberg
… This Colonial House has subsequently been sold and now used as a …
Address by President Mandela at the 53rd United Nations General Assembly New York, 21 September 1998
… of human society. These include the collapse of the colonial system, the passing of a bipolar world, … They are the consequence of decisions which men and…
EventThe Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is published for the first time.
The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser was the first newspaper to be published in Africa. It was started by two slave dealers, Alexander Walker and John…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… grasp his foot. But so much more is implied: the troubling history of poor black women raising privileged white children, and the probability …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
… the building of more military forts and it extended the colonial boundary. But one particular clause put the … Mpondo chief, Faku. This was done, states…
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
… she died in 1720. Some of these early slaves - especially women from Bengal who were acquired by senior officials of … from 1860 to 1911. That has left a…
ArchiveOpen letter to Perkine
… similar to the one eaged by the people of Angola against colonial and imperialist forces …
PlaceJacobsbaai, West Coast
… have evolved from the Frenchman Jacques Titius. He was a Colonial Trader in the West Coast. Tietiesbaai is also named … Park at Langebaan - all offering an…
Tools and weapons from iron and copper
… survival depended on crop cultivation, which was the women’s job. Metal working African farmers were familiar …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 4: World War I (1914 - 1918)
… broke out, aspects and experiences of the War, the role of women during the War, and the defeat of Germany. …
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… this continent two centuries ago, should produce men and women with the clarity of thought, the nobility of vision, … and hated by those who sought to keep…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… Dadoo in 2009, SAHO is, as part of its rewriting of the history of the liberation movement, updating its material on … impulses of the time that might have…