History & Culture of English-speaking Countries 2

Lectures

hcpp2Le1 - Lecture 1 – Southern Africa

• General introduction to Southern Africa
• The countries of Southern Africa
• The peoples of Southern Africa
• The main population centres

Lecture 2 - The land and the post-colonial perspective

• The geography
• The demography
• The post-colonial perspective

• p-cp1
• p-cp2

• The dates of independence
• The freedom fighter guerrilla groups

hcpp2Le2 - Lecture 3 - South Africa: the beginning

• The first inhabitants of South Africa
• The early migrations
• The distribution of the groups - San, Khoikhoi, Sotho, Nguni, Ba-Venda, Ba-Thonga

hcpp2Le3 - Lecture 4 - South Africa: first phase of European colonisation - territorial expansion and resistance to colonial expansion

• The first European colonisers - Jan van Riebeeck (1652)
• The Afrikaners (Boers, Trekboers) and their eastwards expansion
• The Trekboer-Xhosa confrontation (1702)
• The British-Xhosa confrontation - the nine Xhosa Wars (1799-1878)
• The Great Trek (1836) and the Boer republics
• The Mfecane (1822-1836)
  • zulu1 - the Zulu kingship
• Xhosa resistance and their leaders
  • xhosa1 - the Xhosa mindsets
  • xhosa2 - the Xhosa kingship
• Nongqawusa and the Xhosa Cattle Killing - (See also nongqawu)

hcpp2Le4 - Lecture 5 - Industrialisation and exploitation

hcpp2Le5 - Lecture 6 - South Africa and two World Wars

hcpp2Le6 - Lecture 7 - Post-Second World War, apartheid and post-apartheid

hcpp2Le7 - Lecture 8 - David Livingstone

hcpp2Le8 - Lecture 9 - Cecil Rhodes

 

References:

Really useful websites:

www.everythingAfrica.com

www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm

 

IMPORTANT - The following material is NOT a requirement for Course 2007/2008

Tutorials

Tutorial 1

• Text: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. The Harmless People (1959) (Chapter 1 - The Desert) (photocopies)
• tutHarmless - Tutorial worksheet 1 (photocopies)

Tutorial 2

• Text: Mtutuzeli Matshoba. "A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Makana" (photocopies)
• Tut1HCPP2 - Tutorial worksheet 2 (photocopies)
• www.robben-island.org.za - Robben Island website

Tutorial 3

• Text: Mtutuzeli Matshoba. "Three Days in the Land of Dying Illusion" (photocopies)
• Tut2HCPP2 - Tutorial worksheet 3 (photocopies)

 

Last updated: 27-01-10