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View the interactive timeline →What is democracy? (under construction)
What is heritage?
Heritage Heritage is a deceptively simple idea. It can be considered to be made up of the practices and traditions that are passed on from…
What makes a good or great leader?
Everywhere around us, there are leaders; at school, at home, on the playground, sports field or in government. Leaders have a…
What Must be Done Now?" Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
What types of states were set up?
What was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
The depression was caused by a number of serious weaknesses in the economy. Although the 1920s appeared on the surface to be a prosperous…
What was the impact of the Great Depression in Germany?
What was the nature of resistance to apartheid during these decades, and how was this resistance part of wider resistance in the world to human rights abuses? (under construction)
What was the world like in the mid-fifteenth century? (move to archive)
What were the roots of African nationalism in South Africa? What links did it have with Pan Africanism? (under construction)
When, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
What is farming? Farming is the practice of breeding animals or growing crops for food or clothes. Human ancestors stopped relying on…
Wherever I lay my head
Whitney M. Rasaka
Why did so few Black South Africans make films before the 1990s?
There are less than a handful of black directors who made films before the 1990s. The reasons for this are the same reasons that kept black…