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‘The Voracious Frontier: Policing, War, and Mercantilism in Dutch South Africa, 1652–1830’
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1914–1918 Online: Afrikaner (Boer) Rebellion
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A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497–1499
E. G. Ravenstein · 1898 · Hakluyt Society
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Adam Tas Arrested
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Admiral Elphinstone and the Conquest and Defence of the Cape of Good Hope, 1795–96
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Africa Portugal
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African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights: xenophobic attacks in South Africa
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Afrikaans Community 1652 1795
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Afrikaans Community 1820 1899
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Afrikaans: Considering Origins
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Aftermath Battle Blood River 1838
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Akkoordskop Hill Western Cape
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All Glitters Glitter Gold Emilia Potenza
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Amnesty International: Bophuthatswana uprising and right-wing incursion
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André van Graan, ‘Winemaking at the Cape: the architecture of wine’
André van Graan
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Andreas Hauptmann, Gabi Schneider and Christoph Bartels, ‘The Shipwreck of Bom Jesus, AD 1533’
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Anglo Zulu Wars 1879 1896
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Arrival Jan Van Riebeeck Cape 6 April 1652
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Atlas of Mutual Heritage: Buffeljagsrivier
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AtoM@UCT: Kathleen Vos Papers, early Cape land grants
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Auwal Masjid Cape Town
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Background to CODESA 1
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Bambatha Rebellion 1906
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Basotho Wars 1858 1868
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Basutoland Now Lesotho Becomes British Territory
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Battle Blood River
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Battle Muizenburg Monument Muizenburg
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Battle Vechtkop Vegkop Near Present Day Heilbron Fs Between Voortrekkers And Ndebele
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Berg River
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Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo: São Bento account and coastal survey
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BicentenaryOfTheAbolitionOfTheSlaveTrade
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Bloemfontein Convention Signed
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Book 1 Ancient Civilizations And Global Trade Chapter 3 Its Mystery Or It Amanda
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Botswana
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Britain And Zulu Nation Sign Peace Treaty
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Britain Takes Control Cape
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British Bechuanaland
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Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003
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Burghers Were Victorious Their Struggle Against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan Van Der
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Cape archival records concerning land, livestock and the Jan Paerl movement, 1785–1790
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Cape Archives VC 94: Original Journal of the Mauritius voyage, 1595–1597
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Cape Good Hope, 1652–1702: The First Fifty Years of Dutch Colonisation as Seen by Callers
R. Raven-Hart
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Cape Town Timeline 1300 1997
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Cape VOC Day Register, 1693
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Cattle Killing Movement
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Cecil John Rhodes
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Chicova
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Christiaan Jansen van Hoesum's landtocht, 1659
Christiaan Jansen van Hoesum, E. C. Godée Molsbergen (editor)
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Chronicles of Cape Commanders, ‘The English Directors’ 1619 Cape Proposal’
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Circle Kramats Cape Town
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City of Cape Town, ‘Company’s Garden Self-Guided Walk’
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City of Cape Town, ‘Slave Heritage Walks’
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CODESA Declaration of Intent
1991
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Commonwealth history: South Africa withdraws
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Conflict in the Western Highveld / Southern Kalahari, c.1750–1820
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 200 of 1993
1993
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Convention Pretoria Convention Settlement Transvaal Territory 3 August 1881
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Copy Treaty Allegedly Signed Dingaan And Retief Ceding Large Tracts Zulu Kingdom
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David Johnson, ‘Remembering the Khoikhoi victory over Dom Francisco Almeida at the Cape in 1510’
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Delgoa Bay Now Known Maputo Bay Mozambique
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Deon Visser, André Jacobs and Hennie Smit, ‘Water for Saldanha: War as an Agent of Change’
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Die lewe van ’n Khoikhoi-kaptein Dorhá alias Klaas, 1669–1701
H. C. Bredekamp · 1981 · Kronos
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Disaster Strikes Portuguese Ship Sao Joao Sinks
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Divided Against Itself: South Africa's White Polity
Peter B. Orlik · 1970 · The Journal of Modern African Studies
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Durban Timeline 1497 1990
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Dutch And British Coastal Fortifications Cape Good Hope 1665 1829
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Dutch And Khoisan
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Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency, ‘Haarlem (Nieuw Haarlem)’
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E. C. Godée Molsbergen, ‘Joris van Spilbergen in Zuid-Afrika’
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Early Struggles Contact And Conflict Cape Colony
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Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
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Eastern Cape Wars Dispossession 1779 1878
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eGGSA, VOC Letters of Freedom: first free-burgher groups, 1657
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EGGSA: VOC records, 1679–1680
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Elizabeth A. Eldredge, ‘Shipwreck Survivor Accounts from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’
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Elizabeth Hines, ‘Anglo-Dutch Imperial Experiments’
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English Settlement South Africa
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Eugénia Rodrigues, ‘Tete’
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Excavations at Kasteelberg and the Origins of the Khoekhoen in the Western Cape, South Africa
Andrew B. Smith · 2006
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Expropriation Act 13 of 2024
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F. W. de Klerk announces whites-only referendum results
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Few Artifacts of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Exist — These Iron Blocks Tell a Gut-Wrenching Story
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Fighting for the Spoils: Cape Burgerschap and Faction Disputes in Cape Town in the 1770s
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First 1820 British Settlers Arrive South Africa
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First Anglo Boer War
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First Anglo Boer War Boers Defeat British Battle Majuba
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First British Settlers Arrive Algoa Bay
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First Matabele War
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First Mines Are Proclaimed Johannesburg
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First Missionary Southern Africa Goncalo Da Silveira Murdered
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First Recorded Discovery Diamonds Colonial Period South Africa
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Forgotten World
Fort Wynyard
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Forts and Fortifications at the Cape Peninsula, 1781–1829
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Gabbema's tocht, in Reizen in Zuid-Afrika in de Hollandse tijd, Deel I
Abraham Gabbema, E. C. Godée Molsbergen (editor)
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Gai Roufe, ‘The Reasons for a Murder: Local Cultural Conceptualizations of the Martyrdom of Gonçalo da Silveira in 1561’
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Genadendal Historic Village Museum
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General South African History Timeline 1500s
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General South African History Timeline 1600s
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General South African History Timeline 1700s
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General South African History Timeline 1800s
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General South African History Timeline, 1960s
South African History Online
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Georg Schmidt
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George McCall Theal, History of South Africa, volume 7
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Glen Grey Act Native Issue Cecil John Rhodes July 30 1894 Cape House Parliament
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Glen Grey Division
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Glória de Santana Paula, ‘Um manuscrito anónimo do naufrágio da nau Santo Alberto (1593)’
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Graaff Reinet
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Grade 8 Topic 2 Mineral Revolution South Africa
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Great Escapes: Deserting Soldiers during Noodt’s Governorship
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Great Trek 1835 1846
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Great Zimbabwe National Monument
Green Lodge 81 St George Street Bloemfontein
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Griqua
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Griqualand West Annexed Cape Colony After It Was Proclaimed British Territory 27
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Groot Constantia: Rich History
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Groote Schuur Minute
1990 · South African History Online archive
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Guillaume Chenu de Chalezac, the 'French Boy' (ed. Randolph Vigne)
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Harare Declaration: Declaration of the OAU Ad-hoc Committee on Southern Africa on the question of South Africa
1989 · African National Congress document archive
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Heritage And Identity Provinces
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Heritage Month: The Khoi Encountered Europeans Long Before Van Riebeeck
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History Honours Dissertation: The Mutiny on the Meermin
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History Muslims South Africa 1700 1799 Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
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History of the dispossession of the rights in land of pastoral indigenous communities in the Cape Colony from 1652 to 1910
J. N. McLachlan · 2019 · Fundamina
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Huguenot Society of South Africa: The Huguenot History
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Indian Indentured Labour Natal 1860 1911
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Indian South Africans Timeline 1654 1899
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Initial deep research report: South African nineteenth-century chronology
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Island of Mozambique
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J.1095 9270.1986.tb00544.x
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James Lancaster, ‘The First Voyage’ in The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies
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Jameson Raid
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Jan van Riebeeck, Dagverhaal, 1658
Jan van Riebeeck
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Jan van Riebeeck, Dagverhaal, 1659
Jan van Riebeeck
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John Barrow, History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
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John Smith Moffat
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Journals of Expeditions
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Journals Of The Expedition Of The Honourable Ensign Olof Bergh 1682 And 1683 And Isaq Schrijver 1689
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Journals of the expeditions of the Honourable Ensign Olof Bergh (1682 and 1683) and the Ensign Isaq Schrijver (1689).
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Khami Ruins National Monument
King Moshoeshoe I
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King Mzilikazi
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King Sekhukhune
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Kinship, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital: Alcohol Pachters and the Making of Free-Burgher Society in Cape Town, 1652–1795
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Kraal and Castle: Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa
Richard Elphick · 1977
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Krotoa
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Kruger and Milner meet at Bloemfontein
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M. M. Kusel, ‘A preliminary report on settlement layout and gold melting at Thula Mela’
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Making Sense of the Khoikhoi Cattle-Killing of 1788: An Episode of Millenarianism in Khoikhoi Society
Russel Viljoen · 1997 · Kronos
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Marikana Commission of Inquiry: Report on matters of public, national and international concern
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
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Mfecane Understanding Period Transformation Southern Africa
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Military History Journal: The Voortrekkers and the Ndebele, Part Two: Vegkop, 1836
Johannes J. Retief
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Minister Simmers hands over Slangrivier title deeds and 177 solar geyser panels
2023
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Mozambique
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Natal Becomes Part Union South Africa
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Nationaal Archief: VOC charter and archive introduction
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National Archives of South Africa, ‘Journal and letters of Leendert Jansz’
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National Archives of South Africa: Documents on early Cape history
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National Archives of South Africa: The Slagter's Nek Rebellion of 1815
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Ndebele History
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Negotiated settlements and peace referendums
Neophytos Loizides · 2014 · European Journal of Political Research
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Negotiating Freedom: The Free Black Farmers of Jonkershoek, 1697–1710
Negotiating Freedom: The Free Black Farmers of Jonkershoek, 1697–1710 (full text)
Nongqawuses Unfulfilled Prophecy
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Nuno Vila-Santa, ‘Between Mission and Conquest’
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O'Malley Archives: Namibian independence struggle
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Old Fort And Cemetery Durban
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Oldest Example Written Afrikaans Appears Poem
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Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of Southern African History
Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa
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Origins Battle Blood River 1838
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Palaeoproteomics confirm earliest domesticated sheep in southern Africa ca. 2000 BP
Annelise N. Coutu, et al. · 2021 · Scientific Reports
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Pedi Anglo Pedi Wars 1876 1879
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Peter Delius and Stefan Schirmer, ‘Order, Openness, and Economic Change in Precolonial Southern Africa’
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Political Changes 1750 1820
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Popular Fallacies about the Dias Voyage 1487–1488
A. E. Axelson · 1988 · Historia
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Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: Jansz–Proot remonstrance
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Precolonial agricultural terracing in Bokoni, South Africa: Typology and an exploratory excavation
Prehistoric Pastoralism in the Southwestern Cape, South Africa
Prehistory Port Elizabeth Area
Pretoria Minute
1990 · South African History Online archive
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Promotion of Bantu Self-governing Act 1959
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QUCEH Working Paper, ‘Stock Acquisition and Distribution, 1652–1669’
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Queens Fort Military Museum Bloemfontein 0
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Rand Rebellion 1922
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Rebel commando leader Fourie is executed
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Regionality in the Iron Age: The Case of the Sotho-Tswana
Reinvestigating the Wreck of the Sixteenth Century Portuguese Galleon São João: A Historical Archaeological Perspective
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Reizen in Zuid-Afrika in de Hollandse tijd (Isaq Schrijver expedition journal)
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Reizen in Zuid-Afrika in de Hollandse tijd, Deel I: Tochten naar het Noorden, 1652–1686
E. C. Godée Molsbergen
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remains from a mid-sixteenth century Portuguese wreck on the Pondoland coast’
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Remembering Slavery
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Report of the Expert Panel into the July 2021 Civil Unrest
Expert Panel into the July 2021 Civil Unrest
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Republic of South Africa Constitution Act 32 of 1961
1961
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Resolusies van die Politieke Raad, Deel III, 1681–1707
A. J. Böeseken (editor) · 1961
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Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of World War I and the Afrikaner response
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Rethinking The William Fehr Collection
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Right Organise Timeline 1500 1994
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Robben Island Museum, ‘Imprisonment 1615–1657’
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Robben Island Museum, ‘Imprisonment 1658–1660’
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Robben Island Museum, ‘Khoi khoi 1632–1660’
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Robben Island Museum: Khoi khoi 1665–1674
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Role Cecil John Rhodes British South African Company Conquest Matabeleland
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Ruby-Anne Birin, Alex Schoeman and Mary Evans, ‘How Pots, Sand and Stone Walls Helped Us Date an Ancient SA Settlement’
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Rudd Concession King Lobengula Matabeleland 1888
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SAHRC investigation into the 2008 public violence against non-nationals
South African Human Rights Commission
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Sand River Convention Under Which Britain Renounces All Claims Authority Beyond Vaal
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Santo Alberto Wrecked
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Second Anglo Boer War 1899 1902
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Second Basotho War Known Siqiti War Breaks Out
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Seizing the land: conquest and dispossession
An Economic History of South Africa
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Sekhukhune Successfully Resists Boers
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Ship Sao Bento St Benedict Wrecked Transkei Coast
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Ship Sao Jose Wrecked
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Simon Van Der Stel Timeline
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Sir Richard Bourke
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Sir Theophilus Shepstone
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Slagtersnek rebels are tried at the Uitenhage landdros court
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Slave Lodge Building
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Slave Lodge School
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Slave_routes_to_cape_town
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Slavery Abolished Cape 0
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Slavery And Emancipation Slaves
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Slaves at Work
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Smallpox Epidemic Strikes Cape
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Sofala
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Sotho South Sotho Or Basotho
South Africa Risks Losing Rich Insights Into An Ancient Farming Society
South African Committee Investigates Jameson Raid Report
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South African Department of Justice: State Capture Commission reports
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South African Government: Indigenous systems of awards — Makhado and Mphephu
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South African Military History Society: Sir Harry Smith
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South African War 1899 1902
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Spotlight on the ‘Mfecane’ Debate
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Status of the Union Act 69 of 1934
1934
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Statute of Westminster 1931
1931
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Stellenbosch Heritage Foundation: A Short History
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Stellenbosch Municipality: About the City
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Strelitzia: Cape exploration and outposts
South African National Biodiversity Institute · Strelitzia
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Sunken 18th-Century Slave Ship Found Off South Africa
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Swellendam
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Swellendam Khoikhoi cattle-seizure complaint, 21 November 1757
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Swellendam Republic Accepts British Rule
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T. N. Huffman, ‘Maize Grindstones, Madikwe Pottery and Ochre Mining’
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Thaba Bosiu Lesotho
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The 1992 Referendum in South Africa
Annette Strauss · 1993 · The Journal of Modern African Studies
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The Castle Of Good Hope
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The chronology of the introduction of pastoralism to the Cape, South Africa
Judith Sealy, Royden Yates · 1994 · Antiquity
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The Economics of Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Cape Colony: Revising the Nieboer-Domar Hypothesis
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The history and archaeology of pastoralist and hunter-gatherer settlement in the North-Western Cape, South Africa
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The Hurutshe in the Marico District of the Transvaal, 1848–1914
The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo
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The Namibian struggle for independence, 1966–1990
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The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library, ‘Santo Alberto (1593)’
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The Retief Massacre of 6 February 1838 Revisited
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The Shipwreck In A Diamond Mine Analysing The Ivory Cargo Of A 16th Century Portuguese Merchant Ship
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The Sofala Coast (Mozambique) in the 16th Century: between the African trade routes and Indian Ocean trade
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The Xhosa Cattle Killing and the Politics of Memory
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The Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
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This Day in History: 22 April 1819 — Makhanda’s Attack on Grahamstown
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Treks Land Conflicts Timeline 1602 1966
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Trinity College Dublin: Simon van der Stel’s Journal on Namaqualand
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission: MK operations and civilian casualties
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission: National Party homelands policy
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Right-wing violence during the transition
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Tswana
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Union of South Africa: Withdrawal from Commonwealth
1961 · UK House of Commons Debates
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Van Riebeeck Establishes First Burgher Commando
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Voortrekkers Are Defeated During Battle Boomplaats
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Was the Retief–Dingane Treaty a Fake?
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Wayne Dooling: The Development of a Colonial Slave Society
Wayne Dooling
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Western Cape Government, ‘Socio-historical Impact Assessment’
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Wilhem Adriaan van der Stel: Governor Installed 11 February 1699, Recalled 3 June 1707
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Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel Governor Cape Recalled Netherlands
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Wits Historical Papers: Note of possession taken at Saldanha Bay, 3 July 1620
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World History Commons, ‘Journal of Jan van Riebeeck’
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Zulu Army Defeat British Army Isandlwana Mountain
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Zululand Becomes Part Colony Natal After Initial Annexation British May 1887
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