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August 9: National Womens Day: 25th Annivers
… of August 9th workshop in Durban. Description of origin of Women's Day with two photographs of women's protests. 'We pledge' and description on pledges in ……
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… and old, black and white - join hands to reflect on the history of struggle against racial oppression and tyranny and … an earlier convention between British…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… 4000 >3000 >7000 1946 8834 5653 14487 The Apartheid city A history of Pass Laws in South Africa Like all apartheid … homeland politics The South African…
PlaceBotswana
… origin (collectively called “Batswana”) whose recorded History can be traced back, to the 14th Century. These … nationalism and the growing demand for…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… A political Biography by Doreen Musson South African history can legitimately be described as the story of how … was the necessary result of imperialist…
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… South African History Online (SAHO) is hosting an intergenerational …
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… South African war, will start here again. The town has a history steeped in bloody relations between the Afrikaners …
Toast Remarks by President Jacob Zuma at the State Banquet in Honour of the President of Zambia, His Excellency, Mr Rupiah Bwezani Banda during his State visit to South Africa, 02 December 2010, Pretoria, Presidential Guest House
… Zambia a very important base from which we must record the history of our country. This is more important as in 2012 we … during the 16 Days of Activism of…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… Beverley Palesa Ditsie made a statement at the Beijing Women’s Conference about the importance of including lesbian … in discussions about the empowerment…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… sensitive tasks that lie before them as free men and women, men who are willing to commit their energies to the … immersed in the stream of time. As day…
PlaceGuinea
… with a population of 1.66 million. CONAKRY, May 9, 2023 — Women and girls in Guinea face significant barriers to … as men, according to a new World Bank…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… our own, to listen to our own, and to speak to our own. History has determined this concrete reality and so shall it … Beyond the shop floor, Cosatu has…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… of Hitler is coming to a close and with it, centuries of colonial and racist white minority domination. There is … and student organisations, the trade…
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
Q: How did we get a place called Grahamstown? A: Before there was a town, the place was called Egume by the local people. Then the British came and named it…
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was one of the women’s rights organisations that emerged in the 1950s and … FEDSAW was multi racial and…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… Cape farms,slightly more than half of farm workers, mostly women, are seasonal and are employed via labour brokers. … in Keurboschkloof Farm was organised…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… in July 1960 to dissolve the French West African colonial state and grant independence to the four regions … st/abstract.html?res…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… signaled an important phase in the struggle against colonial domination in the sub continent. Under his …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… sovereignty of the British government in respect of its colonial possessions was violated by South African security. …
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… was annexed as three French departments. During the colonial period the traditional patterns of land ownership … Micro History and World timeline, Algeria…
EventWW2: Italy invades Ethiopia
… of expansion were not different from that of other colonial powers in Africa. The aim of invading Ethiopia was … 27 September 2013]| Toynbee, A. 1946. A…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… career as a cook in the King's African Rifles and British Colonial Army in Uganda in 1956. He distinguished himself as …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the … Available at: news.bbc.co.uk [Accessed 27 November 2013]|History…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… in an attempt to regain Somali territory lost prior to the colonial period. Although the attack was suppressed the … Bobby-Evans, A., This day in African…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… The Mfengu (or Fingo in the colonial lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King …
EventJan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time
… were sent to the island; first by the Dutch, then British colonial officials. It was under the Apartheid regime that …
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… on a rectangular stamp in sepia and vermillion. Related: Colonial Post and Telegraph Diary of the Cape of Good Hope …
PlaceQuadrant House, 114-115 Victoria Embankment, Durban
… `Berea Style' which arose from local interest in Spanish Colonial Architecture as found, on the West Coast of North … Amalinde Heritage Trust. 2010. Durban :…
Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
… strongly reflected the interests of the indentured and colonial-born Indian. Together they resisted inroads, pleaded …
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… . It is the ideal setting through which to experience the history of Uitenhage. The Old Railway Station built in 1875 … he put forward a number of proposals…