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ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… The school students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to write: 'We haven't…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… After the government crackdown on political organizations in the … through which black consciousness ideology spread to schools and other university campuses…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… Present day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth … Herero…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and … rulers at the expense of their subjects. The Pondoland…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many … persuade slaves and Khoikhoi farm labourers to join in the uprising. They initially faced…
Schools Dismantled and the Struggle Continues
… Schools Dismantled and the Struggle Continues …
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… The system of Black authorities and the reforms brought about in the agricultural sphere were not unreservedly accepted in … Bizana and the Pondoland Revolt…
Extract from The Peasants’ Revolt, Chapter 9 by Govan Mbeki (1964)
… Extract from The Peasants’ Revolt, Chapter 9 by Govan Mbeki (1964) …
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… The ‘Cape Malay’ community is rich in culture and religious … traditions that have played a major role in shaping the history and diversity of Cape Town…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… the fort and the early settlement were established at the Cape, patterns of exclusion began to emerge as settlers drew … As some coloured men vacated their…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… The San © www.safrica.info In the late 17th and early 18th century the Dutch at the Cape Colony only had contact with the Khoikhoi and San … post set up by…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… The year 1658 marks the beginning of the slave trade at the … gave the Malagasy slaves aboard the Meermin the chance to revolt against their oppressors,…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… On March 28 1658 the Dutch merchant ship the Amersfoort anchored at Table Bay … constituted the first shipment of slaves to arrive at the Cape, yet although…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… 1976 16 June, Extra police patrols are deployed. 24 June, The Principal's office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) was burnt … the detainees from the Gugulethu…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… Introduction In the years following 1994, South Africa has become well known … throughout the country. In the popular tourist city of Cape Town, one of the…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… In September 1915, the Union Government offered to raise an infantry battalion of Cape Coloured men for service in the First World War. A … military…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… Cape Town has a long history of the struggle against racial discrimination and social … brought in by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the Cape also…
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… Prehistory of Southern Africa The Dutch East India Company (VOC) established Cape Town as a refuelling station in 1652 for their ships … as wells and cellars…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… The arrival of the British at the Cape changed the lives of … the British soon realised the potential to develop the Cape for their own needs. Indigenous…
ArticleMafika Gwala School Debate Contest 2020
… Gwala Collected Poems, Alfred Temba Qabula Collected Poems,The Flight of the Gwala Gwala Bird by Ari Sitas. 2. Winner *2nd Best … Mafika Gwala Collected…
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… Together with civic organizations, the youth played an in important role in the struggle against apartheid in the Western Cape. The first youth congress…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… The first slaves arrived at the Cape in 1658, despite Jan van … Bay with a valuable cargo of 174 slaves. Henceforth, the Cape entered the global stage of…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… as the dominant power in the southern and south-western Cape regions. 1460 Portuguese navigators, representing the … passes plans for the introduction of…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… Written by: FRANCO FRESCURA The exploitation of convict labour at the Cape during the Colonial era is closely connected with the work of John Montagu,…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, … of South African…
Fictional Cape Town
… South Africa, thanks to the 2010 World Cup, has been topical lately. But what I have … in South Africa's most popular holiday destination, Cape Town. Cape…
Cape Floral Region
… A serial site - in Cape Province, South Africa - made up of eight protected areas, covering 553,000-ha. The Cape Floral Region is one of the richest areas…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… Sleeping giant is stirring: Farmworkers in South Africa , the farmworker population in the Western Cape make up the highest number of workers in South Africa…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars … advance their own interests. Early History of the Eastern Cape During the early years before…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… The situation in the Eastern Cape in the early late 18th and early 19th century … Tswana people to live like the Europeans. They built schools and churches…