History & Culture of English-speaking Countries 2

Lectures

hcpp2Le1 - Lecture 1 – General background to Southern Africa

• General introduction to Southern Africa
• The countries of Southern Africa
• The peoples of Southern Africa
• The demography - main population centres
• The dates of independence
• The freedom fighter guerrilla groups
• The post-colonial perspective

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hcpp2Le2 - Lecture 2 - Pre-history of Southern Africa

• The geography
• The geology
• The first hominids in Southern Africa
• The first migration (200-400 A.D.)
• The distribution of the groups - San, Khoikhoi, Sotho, Nguni, Ba-Venda, Ba-Thonga

hcpp2Le3 - Lecture 3 - Early history of Southern Africa

• The second migration (1000-1200 A.D.)
• The distribution of the groups - San, Khoikhoi, Xhosa, Thembu, Pondo, Sotho, Tswana, Ndebele, Zulu, Venda, Lemba
• The language groups
• The arrival of European navigators

hcesc2L4 - Lecture 4 - Territorial expansion

• The first European colonisers - Jan van Riebeeck (1652)
• The Afrikaners (Boers, Trekboers) and their eastwards expansion
• The Trekboer-Xhosa confrontation (1702)
• The British annexation of the Cape
• The fifth Xhosa War (1818)
• Two Xhosa factions - two Xhosa mindsets - resistance / accommodation
  • xhosa1 - the Xhosa mindsets
• Makana Nxele - Xhosa warrior prophet

hcesc2L5 - Lecture 5 - Forced migrations #1

• The 1820 Settlers
• The Mfecane (1822-1836)
  • zulu1 - the Zulu kingship
• Shaka Zulu
• Mzilikazi

hcpp2Le7 - Lecture 6 - David Livingstone (video)

hcesc2L7 - Lecture 7 - Forced migrations #2

• The Great Trek (1836) and the Boer republics
• Xhosa resistance and their leaders
  • xhosa2 - the Xhosa kingship
• Nongqawusa and the Xhosa Cattle Killing - (See also nongqawu)

hcpp2Le8 - Lecture 8 - Cecil Rhodes

hcpp2Le4 - Lecture 9 - Industrialisation and exploitation #1

hcpp2Le9 - Lecture 9 - Industrialisation and exploitation #1

hcpp2L4b - Lecture 10 - Industrialisation and exploitation #2

hcpp2L4c - Lecture 11 - Industrialisation and exploitation #3

hcpp2Le5 - Lecture 12 - South Africa and two World Wars

hcpp2Le6 - Lecture 13 - Post-Second World War, apartheid and post-apartheid

 

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 2010/2011

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: 03-02-11