South Africa 1652 - 1806

Africa is the world’s second largest continent, both by size and number, after Asia. Its landmass holds 54 countries and...

South Africa has early human fossils at Sterkfontein and other sites. The first modern inhabitants of the country were t...

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

​The Arniston was built on the River Thames, England in 1794. It was a three-decked and three-masted British East Indiam...

Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colo...

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March 20, 1602 marked the beginning of the inexorable end for many a state in the then known world. On that day, four hu...

The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and...

The first slaves arrived at the Cape in 1658, despite Jan van Riebeeck's several prior attempts at requesting slaves for...