The discovery of the Witwatersrand goldfields in 1886 was a turning point in South Africa's history. The demand for franchise rights for Englishspeaking immigrants working on the new goldfields was the pretext Britain used to go to war with the Transvaal and Orange Free State in 1899.
History of South Africa's early coinage and bank notes William Burchell had this to say about "money" in South Africa in 1811 (source: Travels in the interior of South Africa, vol one, page 7879): The only money in general circulation, is small countersigned pieces of paper, bearing value from the trifling sum of one schelling. or six pence currency, upwards to five hundred rixdollars each.
1820 Settlers' centenary genealogical records, Alphabetically arranged genealogical certifies and notes tracing ancestry from the 1820 English immigrants to South Africa. Includes name of settler, boat on which he or she came, the party with whom he or she travelled, the living ancestor with his or her spouse, children and parents; and the names and addresses of other ...
North Africa was complete, marking the beginning of the cultural, religious and ethnic division between Africa north and south of the Sahara. At this time also the Bantu people had completed their migration from west to southern Africa. Now iron tools had begun to replace flint tools.
This policy soon offends the more radical Afrikaners, always fearful that their identity will be eroded by the British influence. Their concerns are reinforced in 1914 when Botha unhesitatingly brings South Africa into World War I on the allied side (and soon organizes the conquest of German South West Africa). In this climate of unrest an Afrikaner nationalist party, the National Party, is ...
· An overview of the history of South African art. 23 Nov 2017. South African art has always taken on the unique flavour of the country, from the 4 000yearold cave paintings of the San Bushmen – the richest collection of rock art in Africa – to the homegrown conceptual art movement that sprang up as apartheid came to an end in the 1990s.
1920. The 1920s were known as "the Roaring Twenties" or "the Jazz Age" in North America, and Western Europe. The end of the First World War in 1918 caused instability and labour unrest as Canada, and the world, transitioned from war to peace time economies.
Since 1902, provision of railway commuter transport to and from African dormitory townships has involved construction of branch lines as well as elaboration of existing trunk services. Operation of short distance services was first funded from fares, but as townships increased in number and became more remote, and as road competition threatened, uneconomic fares had to be charged so as not to ...
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· The incentive was the unrealistic escalation in the cost of diesel fuel, and the appeal from the South African government to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Tests and economic evaluations proved the system to be technically feasible and economically attractive. Construction of km of trolley line and the conversion of 66 170 ton trucks at the Sishen mine was completed in March 1982.
· A South African family moved from Soweto to the Orange Farm shantytown in South Africa, December 1989. But when South African president Botha resigned in .
Railway construction. In South Africa and South West Africa, where the South African Railways operated, all early mainline railway construction took place working inland from harbours and ports. Construction on these lines began in the years from 1859 to 1887 in South Africa and from 1897 to 1908 in South West Africa.
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South Africa is known about its history of apartheid. Africaner intellectuals started to use the word apartheid in the 1930s. The word means apartness. (Thompson 1996, 186.) In 1948, The Afrikaner National party wan a general election and began to apply its policy of apartheid. Strategists in the National Party invented apartheid as a means to cement their control over the economic and social ...
This research report is submitted in partial fulfilment of the Master of Arts in Demography and Population Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, March 2017