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Hutu rebels attack Tutsi refugees at a camp in Burundi, killing some 320 people, mostly women and children.
Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga
… Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by …
Rebel leader Laurent Kabila, after a plea from the United Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T
… Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T …
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… broke she felt her only option was to become a political refugee, so she and Howard took a northbound train to settle in a large refugee camp in Francistown…
Tens of thousands of people, most wounded or sick, flee along muddy roads from the refugee camp at Gikongoro where at least 2 0
… most wounded or sick, flee along muddy roads from the refugee camp at Gikongoro where at least 2 0 …
Tens of thousands of people, most wounded or sick, flee along muddy roads from the refugee camp at Gikongoro where at least 2 0
… most wounded or sick, flee along muddy roads from the refugee camp at Gikongoro where at least 2 0 …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… as deputy director of welfare, for five United Nations Refugee Relief Association (UNRRA) camps in the Middle East. She was also director of field …
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… independence, enabling PLAN to establish training and refugee camps in exile. 1978 South Africa has not yet upheld its …
BiographyJames Edward April
… they went to Francistown by train, where they stayed in a refugee camp for a few weeks while transport was being …
Comic Relief is launched live on BBC ONE from a refugee camp in Safawa, Sudan, in response to the African famine. As well as do
… Comic Relief is launched live on BBC ONE from a refugee camp in Safawa, Sudan, in response to the African …
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… [11] On the 29th of April 1835, Hintsa entered the British camps on the Governor’s promise that he would be safe. [12] …
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… Thousands of Hutus died of dysentery and cholera in refugee camps. During the following decade, several hundred thousands …
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… canisters in clashes between looters and foreigners. Four refugee camps have been set up by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial …
BiographyFrantz Fanon
… for the FLN. As a freedom fighter he travelled to their camps from Mali to Sahara, he gave refuge to other fighters …
BiographyDavid Hemson
David Hemson was born on 18 July 1945 in Durban, Natal. His father was a serviceman and by default Hemson was granted British citizenship. Hemson grew up in a…
PlaceHeilbron, Free State
… after this, when it was incorporated into the new native refugee camp administration. The Ladies Committee visited … of work. Civil surgeons employed in the…
BiographyMolly Fischer
… workers. Fischer worked in African crèches, established ‘refugee homes’ for African children and gave a series of …
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… an Italian author, journalist, communist, and political refugee, wholeheartedly opposed to Mussolini and the Fascist … Colini, experienced as he was in the…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… Basotho miners killed in South Africa, South African refugee kidnapped by South Africa, and South Africa's refusal … FROM LESOTHO. IF YOU WANT US TO DO…
BiographySally Gross
… life. In May 1977, she left South Africa as a political refugee. This resulted in the loss of her South African … Intersex activist, Former clergyman,…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… that people would settle in villages instead of mobile camps, and women would be allowed to give birth to and raise …
BiographyVuyisile Mini
Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth. Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles,…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… into Swaziland. He was granted a United Nations (UN) refugee passport enabling him to go to newly independent … As it turned out, Reddy was Zimbabwe’s first…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… of Black farm labourers in the notorious concentration camps . By May 1901 there were 77,000 whites and 21,000 Blacks confined in the camps. By October the…
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
… Moodley, broke away from the AZAPO local branch), the Refugee Social Services, as well as the chairperson of the …
BiographyPitika Ntuli
Born in Springs, situated east of Johannesburg, Pitika Ntuli grew up with a keen interest in art. As a young man, he got involved in politics, and he was an…
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
… of the AU was expected to close and never again open any refugee camps on the continent, because all Africans were supposed to … of the African Union. Many…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… repercussions internationally. The 1948 war created a refugee crises which saw more than one million Palestinian people disbursed in refugee camps in the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… from their critiques of the ANC and PAC. Life in the ANC camps, many found, was difficult and full of hardships, and … students entering Lesotho as refugees,…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… Africa via Mozambique and spent six months at Xai Xai refugee camp. Later they were rescued and transported to an …