South Africa 1806 -1899

The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and demographic...

Background and policy of apartheidBefore we can look at the history of the apartheid period it is necessary to understan...

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

'South African War ( a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) remains the most terrible and destructive modern armed conflict in South...

The three Basotho Wars (1858-68) and the formation of Lesotho The conflict between the Basotho people and White settl...

The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slav...

The largest North-Sotho language group in South Africa are the Bapedi group, who arrived in the northern province around...

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

From bondage to freedom - The 160th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa  The feature on...

Indian immigration into Natal brought with it strained relations and severe problems and conflicts between the White col...

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

European missionaries to southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played a strangely ambiguous role...

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

The Great Trek and the advent of the Mfecane The origins of the battle are a matter of considerable debate. The backg...

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The reign of Mzilikazi Under the leadership of Mzilikazi, the people who came to be called the Ndebele in Zimbabwe (ori...

By 1895 Britain was getting more confident about taking action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonia...

The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land wher...

 

The area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, originally known as Transoranje, with its abundance of permanent water sour...

KwaMsiza is a village of 49 families located some 50km north of Pretoria. Its residents are Ndzundza Ndebele, and belong...