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Bring Eastern Cape heritage into the classroom.

Curriculum-aligned lessons, an extended historical timeline, printable worksheets and an interactive quiz module — open and free for teachers, learners and researchers.

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Extended timeline

Two centuries of Eastern Cape history.

  1. Pre-1820s

    AmaMfengu origins

    Nguni clans displaced during the Mfecane settle along the Eastern Cape frontier.

  2. 1835

    Oath at Peddie

    Mfengu communities take an oath under a milkwood tree at Peddie.

  3. 1879

    Education & literacy

    Mission schools across the Amathole produce a generation of black African educators.

  4. 1927

    Bhunga Building

    Seat of the United Transkeian Territories General Council established in Mthatha.

  5. 1976

    Transkei

    Mthatha becomes the capital of the nominally independent Transkei.

  6. 1994

    Democracy

    Eastern Cape heritage figures shape the new South Africa.

  7. 2023–24

    Mthatha floods

    Climate disaster underlines the link between heritage and climate planning.