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EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… Moi was reelected unopposed in 1983 and 1988. As the Cold War wound down in the late 1980s, Western powers were no …
History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… of southern Africa: The outbreak of the First World War; the Rebellion of 1914; the protests against the Natives …
PlaceThembuland
… From 1871 the Thembu became engaged in a protracted war against an alliance of neighbouring Xhosa-speaking …
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… during the 1940’s did not receive enough water. World War 2 caused a disruption with the social welfare services, …
Post-detention weapons
… (for all hangings) 3. Political trials 4. Prisoner of war status 5. List of political executions 1. Introduction … handed down a total of 43 death sentences…
PlaceSt. Andrews College, Grahamstown now Makhanda
… to those: Old Andreans who had died in the first World War. The foundation stone was laid in 1921 and the tower was …
PlaceFort Beaufort/KwaMaqoma- Amatola District, Eastern Cape
Fort Beaufort (Xhosa: iBhofolo). Fort Beaufort is situated in the Eastern Cape Province. The town is surrounded by magnificent Mountain Ranges and it is known…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… 16 June, The ANC issues a pamphlet entitled ‘ We are at War! ’ 18 June, Oliver Tambo delivers a speech, entitled ‘ … reforms had to be adopted in order to…
Liberation organisations
… region Against fellow South Africans to quell civil war in the black townships To repress anti-apartheid … during the 1980s, the world was embroiled in the…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… study of colonialism since 1452, and the question of civil war and mass violence. Mamdani was a professor at the …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Antjie Krog; Life in Limbo, Maritso Makhunga; Lucifer on War Bryan Sanzilla; Four Poems, Luis Carlos Patraquim; This …
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… Street. This company ceased operations at the outbreak of war in 1899, and it was not until 1904 that the municipality …
EventBambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata
… forests and from there proceeded to wage a guerrilla war against the Colonial Government. Government measures to …
PlaceSophiatown
… settle there by the owner, Hermann Tobiansky. When World War I started and many Black people moved to Cities in search …
ArchiveThe Soul of a Nation
… of negotiations between political parties that were at war with each other not long before. It is also a political …
ArchiveGarment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… had started in the 1920s and 1930s continued after World War II and into the 1950s and 1960s. What was seen as …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… rates were extremely high. After the Second World War in the late 1940s, there was a large increase in the …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… against the will of the people. 1881 Basuto chiefs go to war against the Cape Colony over the right of Africans to …
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… from the city centre of Durban. Converted from a World War 2 military transit camp, Wentworth is flanked by the …
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… sheep and cattle for food. This situation resulted in a war that lasted for hundreds of years. The fighting and other …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… highlighted the way forward though two streams- 'people's war' and negotiation. It wanted the UDF to increase pressure …
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… the Transvaal for Natal, the Cape Colony and India when war broke out. It restricted Indians into segregated … trading licenses except in the ‘Asiatic…
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… to improve it. Every effort must be made, now, during the war, to get adequate land for Africans as over-crowding and … part safely and efficiently in a…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… to improve it. Every effort must be made, now, during the war, to get adequate land for Africans as over-crowding and … part safely and efficiently in a…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… to prevent other workers from coming out on strike. World War No. 1 In 1914 World War I broke out and the Government of the day was forced to … to the…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… freedom struggle for Namibia was a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That … it was awarded the mandate over us after the…
In the Belly of the Beast - Speech at Conference of the International Committee against Apartheid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA) by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, April 1980
… of the South African army in the Zimbabwean liberation war, and in the air raids and military invasions against … of peace generated by the end of the…
We Shall Win - Statement at the Meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid year by O. R. Tambo, New York, 21 March 1978
… Thirty-three years have passed since the Second World War came to an end with the defeat of Nazi Germany and her … up without experiencing what would be a…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… to enter factories as workers only during and after World War II.) These Afrikaner women had not only to support … time. Their unions remained craft unions…