events that happened during 1879 in South Africa. Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Henry Barkly. Lieutenant-governor...
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Anglo-Zulu War (redirect from South Africa 1879)
encompassing the African Kingdoms, tribal areas and Boer republics into South Africa. In 1874, Sir Bartle Frere was sent to South Africa as High Commissioner...
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Act of 1879 was an act of racial segregation in South Africa. Bundy, C. (1972). "The emergence and decline of a South African peasantry". African Affairs...
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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. The nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798...
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Apartheid (redirect from History of South Africa in the Apartheid Era)
system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was...
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African continent between 1879 and 1915. Ethnic, political, and social tensions between European colonial powers and indigenous Africans led to increasing hostilities...
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Zulu Dawn (category Films set in South Africa)
historical Battle of Isandlwana between British and Zulu forces in 1879 in South Africa. The screenplay was by Cy Endfield, from his book, and Anthony...
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Crime in South Africa includes all violent and non-violent crimes that take place in the country of South Africa, or otherwise within its jurisdiction...
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Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial (category 1879 in South Africa)
The Prince Imperial, Mackinnon, J. P., and S. H. Shadbolt. The South African Campaign, 1879 : a Memorial Volume Containing Sixty Permanent Cabinet Photographs...
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ergaster, the earliest Homo sapiens (modern human) remains, found in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Morocco, date to circa 233,000, 259,000, and 300,000 years...
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1779 and 1879 in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The Xhosa Kingdom was the first kingdom the British encountered in South Africa. The wars...
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Second Boer War (redirect from South Africa 1899–1902)
Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange...
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The Union of South Africa (Dutch: Unie van Zuid-Afrika; Afrikaans: Unie van Suid-Afrika; pronunciation) was the historical predecessor to the present-day...
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In 1879, the first submarine cable system that connected South Africa with Europe started to work, through the East Coast cable of the South African Telegraph...
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Apartheid legislation (redirect from Apartheid Legislation in South Africa)
The system of racial segregation and oppression in South Africa known as apartheid was implemented and enforced by many acts and other laws. This legislation...
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Many people of European heritage in South Africa are descended from Huguenots. Most of these originally settled in the Cape Colony, but were absorbed...
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This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....
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HIV/AIDS is one of the most serious health concerns in South Africa. South Africa has the highest number of people afflicted with HIV of any country,...
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Bantustan (redirect from Bantustans in South West Africa)
National Party administration of South Africa set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia), as a part of its policy...
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discrimination and even violence in South Africa due to competition for scarce economic opportunities. After majority rule in 1994, contrary to expectations...
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Slavery in South Africa existed from 1653 in the Dutch Cape Colony until the abolition of slavery in the British Cape Colony on 1 January 1834. This followed...
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earliest suggestions for the establishment of the Central Bank in South Africa date back to 1879. A select committee, of ten members of Parliament, was established...
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inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. In 1999, UNESCO designated the region the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site. South Africa's first...
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From the 1960s to the 1990s, South Africa pursued research into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons under...
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apartheid began in 1990 and continued until President Nelson Mandela's electoral victory as South Africa's first Black president in the first democratic...
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South African Bantu-speaking peoples represent the majority indigenous ethno-racial group of South Africans. Occasionally grouped as Bantu, the term itself...
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who were involved in a series of South African tribal wars in the Cape of Good Hope, Colony of Natal and Transvaal between 1877 and 1879, most notably for...
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General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. The elections were the first in which citizens of all races were allowed to...
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last of Napoleons who died in Zulu war (1856–1879) Emily Hobhouse, African British welfare campaigner for South Africans (1860–1926) John Hutchinson...
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events that happened during 1880 in South Africa. Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: John Gordon Sprigg. Lieutenant-governor...
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