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SA History: Black and White Relations...
Trevor Jennings summary of South Africa History: Black and White Relationships can be downloaded here: Black-White Conflict 1652 – 1994 Rev
A Chronology of key events: Timeline
Click on this link to see a timeline chronology of SA events: Black-White Conflict 1652 – 1994
Tables listing selected South African...
Tables listing selected South African legislation
Reference; Another Country: Everyday Social Restitution – Sharlene Swartz
Legislation that entrenched racial discrimination and Apartheid (1856 to 1959)[1]
The Cape Province Masters and Servants Act, No. 15 of 1856, attached criminal liability to breach of employment contracts between unskil [...]
Prayer by Anneke Rabie
Father, I submit this afternoon before You and ask that You will help me to pray this prayer of repentance. I stand before You and every Black, Coloured and Indian person of SA. I stand in the gap as a White Afrikaner woman. I stand for all White people in SA – both Afrikaans and English. I stand for the White people of the past, present and [...]
Freedom Day and Race Relations
Research by IPSOS has found that South Africans’ belief in a happy future for all races in the country has deteriorated over the last year, following the same pattern as many other social, economic and political indicators in the country. The latest findings are in sharp contrast with earlier measurements when two-thirds of adults were lookin [...]
Shaping our future by understanding o...
Click here to download the Shaping our future by understanding our past document created by Trevor Jennings.
A Chronology of key events
From the 4th century: Bantu-speaking groups settle, joining the indigenous San and Khoikhoi people.
1480s: Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Dias is the first European to travel round the southern tip of Africa.
1497: Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama lands on Natal coast.
1652: Jan van Riebeeck, representing the Dutch East India Company, foun [...]
Article on Corruption
A few days ago I listened to a discussion on SAFM dealing with the subject of ‘nation building.’ The two political analysts who were invited to unpack this subject had the task of answering the question of who exactly is responsible for ‘nation building.’ Before expressing a view in relation to this question you must bear in mind that South A [...]
