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… announce restoration of full diplomatic links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War. …

… Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever …

… Politics and Economics. During the Second World War, which broke out in September 1939, the young Jim, aged … in the aviation footsteps of his mother, who had been the first woman to fly single-handedly from England to the … African Continent. Born almost a year after the end of the First World War of 1914-1918, Bailey joined the Oxford Air …

… Mattheus Uys Krige and his contribution to the Second World War  Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted … to experience Europe and particularly French culture first-hand was awakened. During his student years, he also … an increasingly fervent desire to travel to Europe. [14] First European adventure c. 1931 -1939 On 30 June 1931, he …

… Workers Club. Issy Heymann fought during the Second World War and when the war ended, he became a member of the … arrested on 10 September 1965, making him South Africa’s first 180 day detainee. It was not his first experience of this nature. At the very end of December …

… and 1022 soldiers, leaves for East Africa during the First World War. …

… philanthropic organizations. Post school, Stott got her first job at the Ministry of Defence, working at the censorship department during Second World War . After the war she went back to Cape Town and got a job … club. Eulalie married Michael Stott in 1949 and had their first child in 1952. In the 1950’s Stott began participating …

… father had founded De Volksstem a year earlier. Here he first attended an English school and then Meneer Dely se … he went on to school in Stellenbosch and Wellington. He first worked as a surveyor for one year. He then joined the … the post as State Librarian in 1894. The second Boer war broke out, Jan Celliers fought near Colesberg to the …

… was also under house arrest. In 1967, Pillay became the first Black woman to open her own law practice in Natal. She … organizations detained by the apartheid government. In her first case, after starting her own legal practice, she … “From time immemorial, rape has been regarded as spoils of war. Now it will be considered a war crime. We want to send …

… of the Gorinhaikonas, he became a rich man. 1658 he waged war against the Dutch settlers. The war broke out when Autshomao reclaimed cattle that were … and his two followers, Simon Boubou and Khamy, became the first prisoners on  Robben Island . They were banished by  …

… they were interrupted by the siege of Pretoria during the First Anglo-Boer War. The two, who had been joined by the Pole Checheffski in … Val’s return to England, he lectured in Cape Town on the war. He wrote With a show through Southern Africa, and …

… in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South Africa. He settled in … South African Society of Artists. He was also one of the first few people to paint frescoes in South Africa. Roworth …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged …

… Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged …

… Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged …

… Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2:  The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented …

… at the South African College of Music in Cape Town ”the first person in South Africa with the requisite … variety of plays at regular intervals in Cape Town in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Among their … moved to the Hiddingh Hall. During the First World War (1914-1918) Freund organised and took part in various …

… he, together with Lord Alfred Milner , pushed towards war with the Boers, which culminated in the Second Anglo-Boer … to secure the autonomy of the Republic. Chamberlain had at first hoped to anglicise Kruger’s republic through diplomatic … would suffice, but he made two errors of judgment. First, he exaggerated Afrikaner solidarity and the threat to …

… to leave his mountain fortress, he prepared for war. On 27 April 1894 and again on 7th May, officials of the … General  Piet Joubert besieged his fortress from the first half of June to the end of July 1894. During this time, … into a fire, but each time he was saved. A council of war tried Malebogo on 2nd August. Although he was never …

… to learn to become an interpreter. But having witnessed first hand the capacity of the Dutch to reduce indigenous … the younger leaders to join him in what he regarded as a war of liberation. On a cold and drizzling day on 19 May 1659 … could not be fired in the rain with damp powder. The First Khoikhoi-Dutch War followed , it lasted almost a year …

… farm schools. He joined the army at the outbreak of World War II, when many of his neighbours were violently opposed to … of Democrats was formed in 1953, he was elected as its first President. Two years later, in 1955, he became the first President of the South African Congress of Trade Unions …

… Institute for Photography in Munich. She is one of the first South African women to study photography abroad.  On … and Cape Town . Constance became South Africa’s first woman correspondent when the Director of the South … Col. E. G. Malherbe, appointed her to cover the war for Libertas magazine. During this time she covered …

… He became a railway fitter and in 1902 helped found the first trades and Labour Council.In 1905 he became Amalgamated … in South Africa,he also helped to form the South Africa first labor federation. In 1909 he became the first chairman … speaker. After breaking with the Labour Party on the war issue, he was not re-elected to Parliament in 1915 and …

… Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa's first elected woman president in post-war elections. Mbeki said Sirleaf's election signalled a "new … has been brought to its knees by fourteen years of civil war. … Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa's first elected woman president in post-war elections …

… In September 1975, she married Samora Machel , the first president of newly independent Mozambique. She also … a willing stepmother to her husband's five children by his first companion, Sorita, and his first wife, Josina, who had … Graca Machel have two children of their own. During the war for independence from the Portuguese rule, FRELIMO set up …

… He helped to establish the Kimberley Regiment when the First World War broke out, and he organised the labourers needed to build … as somewhat progressive, pointing out that he was the first to provide adequate housing for Black mineworkers and …

… on the civil service examinations. On the eve of the Boer War he was sent to Mafeking as an interpreter, and during the … Silas Molema, chief of the Barolong, he established the first Setswana-English weekly, Koranta ea Becoana (Newspaper … Congress) was formed in 1912, Plaatje was chosen its first secretary-general. An articulate opponent of tribalism, …

… Transvaal Boers had in the mean time become engaged in a war with the Bechuana tribes. Sekomi allowed Viljoen to … year Viljoen, Jacobs and three other hunters were the first Boers to be allowed by Mzilikazi to hunt in … been. After that he lived quietly on his farm, but in the First Anglo-Boer War he led a commando against Montshiwa, …

… of a leading local farmer. In 1891, he gained a double first in the combined literary and science degree examination … In 1894, he achieved the unprecedented distinction of first place in both parts of the law course. He returned to … Paul Kruger at the age of 28. During the Second Anglo-Boer War, he was deeply involved in the planning and execution of …