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EventThe British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation
… Gqobose. Gqobose was arrested in Basutoland (now known as Lesotho) in 1965, . He was sentenced to three years …
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… in anger at a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid in Lesotho . The bomb attack was part of Operation Butterfly, …
EventNjabulo Ndebele was born on this day
… 1966 and went on to study at the universities of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Cambridge and the University of Denver …
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… The dead were mainly Black migrant workers from Malawi , Lesotho , Swaziland and Mozambique . They had succumbed to …
PlaceAll Saints Anglican Church, Durbanville
… and now has 25 dioceses, found in the countries of Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mocambique, Namibia, South Africa and the …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
… For the same reason, he said, South Africa raided Lesotho last year. None of these so-called preemptive strikes … one practising colonialism and apartheid,…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… Vorster set up a meeting with Chief Leabua Jonathan of Lesotho in 1966, with Sir Sereste Khama of Botswana in 1968 … the way he tried to score points against…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… ANC members…, and another raid that took place in Maseru, (Lesotho).” [9] It was during this trial that Mpofu became …
EventJames Thaele, co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, passes away
… Cape Town, died in Cape Town. He was born in Basutoland (Lesotho) in 1888. Thaele lost his ANC Western Cape leadership …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… in Britain with his family after fleeing South Africa via Lesotho and Botswana. Woods was prosecuted seven times under …
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… same status as the British protectorates of Swaziland and Lesotho. This ploy failed to change the view of …
PlaceSani Pass, KwaZulu Natal
… , linking- KwaZulu Natal to the independent Country of Lesotho. The route up Sani Pass starts at 1,544 metres and … District , in the mountainous…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… praying. Those beaten by sjambok included then Bishop of Lesotho, Desmond Tutu’s wife, Leah Tutu and 71 year old …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… University Exchange Fund (IUEF). Pityana and Khoapa met in Lesotho , where they were told that they would meet with Tambo in Lesotho, flying via Bloemfontein…
PlaceMaluti-a-Phofung Municipality, Free State
… It is bordered by Phumelela in the North, the Kingdom of Lesotho in the South, the KwaZulu-Natal Province in the East, … It is bordered by Phumelela in the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… Thozamile Botha breaks his banning order and escapes to Lesotho. 1980 7 May, The interim majority report of the … 15 August 1980 1980 20 August, The Prime…
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Anton Lembede's primary school class, Umbumbulu, 192.7 (Bemadette Sibeko) Inset of…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… into his policy of détente. In January 1967 he met Lesotho’s head of state, Chief Jonathan Leabua to discuss …
Mission Stations - T-Z
… , Mount Currie, Cape: No data available TEGATEGANAY , Lesotho: see TEYATEYANENG , Lesotho TEKWINI , Port St Johns, Cape: No data available … , Zimbabwe: WMMS…
PlaceJoe Gqabi District Municipality, Eastern Cape
… Cape. It Borders Free State Province and the Country of Lesotho , to the North. It comprises of 3 Local … Cape. It Borders Free State Province and the…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… include actions against ANC bases in Mozambique (1981), Lesotho (1982 & 1986) and Swaziland (1986). Following the …
EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
… The sub-Saharan countries of Zimbabwe, Malawi, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia and Mozambique were among the worst to be …
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… the first SADC members included the states of Mozambique, Lesotho, Angola and Zimbabwe. Due to its policy of apartheid, …
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… within the same person. Casalis wrote at Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, in about 1833, that: "... we said that, wishing to … enough, by the Paris Missionary Society…
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… found in two regions: North West/ Limpopo Provinces and Lesotho/Western KwaZulu-Natal/Northeastern Cape. There are …
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… of people, men and women, from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. The meeting was convened to discuss …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… Congress (PAC), confirmed in Maseru, Basutoland (now Lesotho), that Poqo and the PAC are one and the same …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… forcing thousands of youth into exile, mainly in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. These swelled the ranks of uMkhonto we …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… in 1980), South West Africa (Namibia by 1990), Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Transkei, Bophuthatswana and other …
PlaceQuaqua
… . It was only 655 square kilometres big and bordered on Lesotho . The capital was Phuthaditjhaba and initially about …