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ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… by the guerrilla army FRELIMO to fight against Portuguese colonial rule. Hundreds of girls and young women also became … in the nationalist narrative as the…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Mahmood Mamdani will speak on “Decolonising the Post-Colonial University”. The lecture is to be held at 17:30 for … the question: What does it mean to…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… of a broader effort to rename places that had names with a colonial or apartheid legacy. Port Elizabeth is the largest … and Monuments. These tell the story…
Document 55 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935
… The greatest, strongest and most brutal of imperialistic colonial oppressors has adopted the role of the champion of … labour organisations, instead of…
Introduction
… the less-privileged sons of ex-indentured parents. These colonial born Indians preferred to look within for their … for me to leave it') formed an…
ArchiveInterview with Julius Nyerere
… countries which had not yet achieved independence from colonial rule. These notes on a conversation with Nyerere at …
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… Sandile, joined by Kreli of the Galekas, waged war against Colonial forces, which included loyal Fingos, at the Battle …
EventGeneral Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President Milton Obote
… meeting in Singapore. Amin was a soldier in the British colonial army and became one of its first Ugandan …
EventThe governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, opens the Graaff-Reinet-Middelburg railway line
… Sir Alfred Milner was a British statesman and colonial Administrator. Milner came to South Africa in May …
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… he returned to his home country. Unhappy with his post- colonial new reality, Kourouma expressed his grievances …
8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India
… of their temples, and at the same time to request the Colonial Government to be so good as to assist your … of asking the Government of India to intercede…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… and a fiery orator for independence. He railed against colonial domination, but worked closely with Aparthed South … (though again there are conflicting…
EventBritain returns the Cape to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle
… Janssens, sponsored development and reforms. In short the colonial history of the Cape of Good Hope from its first …
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… because they still had access to land. In later years the colonial frontier expanded and the Zulu’s were forcefully …
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria’s communist movement. Meticulously …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Algeria and France, Claude Bourdet. Tangier Diary: A Post-Colonial Interlude, Paul Bowles. The Fact of African …
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… enthusiastic demands for political independence from colonial powers that swept across much of the African …
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… Zimbabwe's pre-colonial history is synonymous with the ruins of Great …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… was attained between Gandhi and General Smuts, the Colonial Secretary at the time. It was agreed that Indians …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… settlers flooded into the area. The Ovaherero chafed under colonial rule and on 11 January 1904 they rose in rebellion. … Klausdierks The Colonial Period…
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… He subsequently fled the colony, but three of the colonial troops were killed in a clash on the Bushman's River …
EventDutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed
… by the States-General of the Netherlands to carry out colonial activities in Asia. With its headquarters in …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… but also of who the ICC is accountable to. ICC: A Neo-Colonial Venture? Since its first case against the Congolese … terms of extraction with foreign firms…
ArticleZulu
… has no basis in culture or history but arises out of the colonial distinction between the Cape and Natal colonies. … independence ( see Anglo-Zulu Wars )…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… International paid scant attention to the national and colonial struggle (under which the South African question … Congress stated quite clearly that the…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the two dominant white political interests, the English colonial territories and recently defeated Afrikaner …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… meetings were held and various telegrams were sent to the Colonial Secretary to prevent the lading of any more free …
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… Commissioners Ladies and Gentlemen: Throughout the post-colonial period, the so-called political class and the … were poor. Economically, they were linked to…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… were not so good, the location was very convenient. The Colonial Office received the deputation with distinct … deputation of their eagerness to raise their…
PlaceGeorge Division
… been covered by extensive indigenous forests, but during colonial times these were heavily depleted through …