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European trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape…
Events leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
In 1887 Zululand was annexed by the colony of Natal and the Zulu were gradually stripped of most of their arable land. There was widespread…
Example of a local history: Pretoria
The places we come from are a part of our heritage. Where we grew up and where we live are important because we learn from the people who…
Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction)
Examples of exploration from Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and its impact on indigenous people (under construction)
Excerpts from Chief Lutuli's evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
Exhibition Opening: Walking on Water: Migrants and Travelling stories by Omar Badsha
Exhibition: Kathy - the man behind the public figure
Explain the concepts African nationalism and Pan-Africanism (under construction)
Extract from The Peasants’ Revolt, Chapter 9 by Govan Mbeki (1964)
Extract of a letter of 24 October 1935 from the COMMUNIST LEAGUE OFSOUTH AFRICA, Press Service ofthe Intemational Secretariat, International Communist League (B-l), ISNovember 1935
Extracts from a press conference
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus,…
Fanakalo: the language of mining culture
Introduction Fanakalo is a bridging language of communication in multilingual and multinational settings on South African mines [writers…
Fatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes for adults in her father's…