History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa

Indenture: A new system of slavery?

Indenture: A new system of slavery?

Was the system of indentured Indian labour "a new system of slavery"?as Hugh Tinker entitles his book? The answer would ...

History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa

History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa

8 December 2023

With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model.  This was the orig...

A history of prison labour in South Africa

A history of prison labour in South Africa

3 November 2023

Slave Resistance

Slave Resistance

www.slavery.iziko.org.za/uprisingatcape

Ship list of Indian Indentured Labourers

Ship list of Indian Indentured Labourers

Approximately 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture making a total of 384 trips. Th...

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

3 September 2019

Foremost historian of Cape slavery, Nelson Mandela Chair of African Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New ...