Tag Archives: Culture

History: The Afrikaners of South Africa

By Internet Source | March 18, 2010

In 1652 a small company of employees of the Dutch East India Company were settled on the southern tip of Africa in order to establish a refreshment station for the Company’s ships en route [...]

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We are because of them – Part 5 0f 5

By Internet Source | March 4, 2010

A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen

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Ngoro right on coloured culture!

By Internet Source | February 23, 2010

PLEASE allow me the opportunity to respond to the article “Ngoro invites Khoisan intellectuals”, which appeared in City Press of August 14.
I would like to thank Blackman Ngoro for opening an issue which we as Khoisan rights campaigners have been discussing all along – that coloured people should shed their coloured identity and reclaim their [...]

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We are because of them – Part 4 0f 5

By Internet Source | February 18, 2010

A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen

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We are because of them – Part 3 of 5

By Internet Source | February 9, 2010

A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen

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We are because of them – Part 2 of 5

By Internet Source | February 4, 2010

A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen

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We are because of them – Part 1 0f 5

By Internet Source | January 26, 2010

A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen

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History: Indian slaves in South Africa

By Internet Source | June 1, 2008

Soon after Jan van Riebeeck set up a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, to supply provisions to Dutch ships plying to and from India and the East Indies, people from India were taken to the Cape and sold into slavery to do domestic work for the settlers, as well the [...]

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Intermarried…with Children

By Internet Source | October 28, 2007

Hostile stares and epithets were the least of their problems when Edgar and Jean Cahn first dated. Twice the couple — he a white Jew, she a black Baptist — were arrested simply for walking the streets of Baltimore arm in arm. When they wed in 1957, Maryland law barred interracial marriages, so [...]

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Numbers!

By Internet Source | September 10, 2007

In this course, we often speak about society and identity. Just yesterday, we watched the most interesting documentary on gangs and how they operate in jail and outside the bars of justice. In this piece a man was questioned about his identity. He was asked if he would classify himself as a cape [...]

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