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Early Encounters before 1652 Ibn Battuta to the first Europeans rounding the Cape: trade, exploration and the societies already here.

The Empty or Vacant Land Theory is a theory that was propagated by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to land. Today this theory is described as a myth, the ...

The value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors and clues of the past that lead up to one particular moment, event or action and to give it meaning accordingly. Therefore, by ...

The Pass Laws was a system used to control the movement of Black, Indian and Coloured people in South Africa. The pass said which areas a person was allowed to move through or be in and if a person ...

The year of 1985 signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and non-violent resistance to the racially-exclusive system of ...

On 30 March 1960, Philip Kgosana led a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to the police headquarters in Caledon Square. The protesters ...

In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, was elected the ANC’s national chairperson. Mandela continued to ...

[1] Dan Cameron, ‘Global Warming’, Art Forum December 1997, reprinted in Trade Routes Revisited, Stevenson: Johannesburg and Cape Town, 2012, page 66. ↵ [2] Okwui Enwezor, ‘Introduction – Travel Notes ...

South African History Online. (2015, February 4). Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/A ...

The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by the fact that people from these agencies do not want their stories to be told. The Bureau of State Security ...

A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded. At about 7:30pm, on Sunday 25th July, while the congregation of 1400 listened to a hymn of worship ...