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EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Fairbairn’s efforts paid off when in April 1829 the Cape Colonial government gave an undertaking to guarantee the …
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… The colonial history of Equatorial Guinea dates back to 1471 when …
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… their territory. In response to public outcry, the British Colonial Office in South Africa appointed a Mr Labouchere as …
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… 1894, this is one of Durban’s few remaining links with its Colonial past. It is the oldest licenced premises in the …
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… base and spearhead in the struggle against imperialist, colonial and racist domination, against imperialist reaction … now embraces one-third of the world's…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the ‘ colonial ’ language of the White Afrikaner oppressor. Indeed, … nationalism and Apartheid. [10]…
African History Books
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EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… During the Zulu War, on 20 January 1879, British and Natal colonial troops under Lord Chelmsford, commander of the … than Paul Kruger of the Transvaal, and…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… its harvests were little better than "average". During the colonial era the country was still generously covered with … east of Cathcart, rose in rebellion…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… who know as intimately what it means to suffer under colonial domination and imperialist plunder. It is fortunate … of national liberation and democracy on…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… lieutenants have at last recognised the iniquity of the colonial and racist apartheid system and acknowledged the … but whose real and sole intention is to…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… lieutenants have at last recognised the iniquity of the colonial and racist apartheid system and acknowledged the … but whose real and sole intention is to…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… Keegan examines the role of imperialism and the birth of a colonial society. The British attempt to conquer and control … Cape liberal tradition and the non…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… (1928–31) , was a widespread, though unsuccessful, anti-colonial uprising in the western and southwestern parts of … villages where they could be supervised…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… to all the disenfranchised, enslaved communities of the colonial and semi-colonial countries.” Although Dadoo’s support for the … long ago lay prostrate…
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South Africa, the …
EventQueen Victoria of Britain approves Charter for Rhodes
… On this date the British Colonial Secretary addressed a dispatch that Queen Victoria …
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… strategic alliances with South Africa and the last two colonial governments on the sub continent, Angola and …
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… other colonies it represented the implicit guarantee of colonial freedom. It gave a very positive impetus to the irresistible drive towards colonial freedom…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… was implemented in the Southern Colonies during Colonial Times. The five Southern Colonies that introduced … became the biggest of all the trade exports…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… destitution of our peoples that is the heritage of colonial and imperialist domination and the continuing … the full realisation of the objectives of the ECA…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… They have even known mass graves. In their march from colonial domination to independence they have had to stop by … this graveside here today because the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from
… what was called the religious welfare of Britain's richest colonial possession, India. The missionary and the military … were these Evangelicals who were so…
PlaceZimbabwe
… nor was it a single geographical entity before the Colonial Occupation by the British Empire . Throughout … battle of Mahungwe and the battle of Dambarare ,…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… of dried grass" (1888) The missionaries' relationship with colonial officials is perhaps not quite as clearcut as in the … Books on Native Affairs 1876) It…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… encountered by the new arrivals. 16 July, The British Colonial Office announces the appointment of a Ladies … referring to the concentration camps, writes to…
ArticleTswana
… nineteenth century and most belong to a church today, pre-colonial beliefs retain strength among many Tswana. … facilitated the transition to migrant wage…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… Much of the idea of the 'vacant land' myth in African colonial history rests on a White misunderstanding - however … the dominion of either the Afrikaner…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… in July 1960 to dissolve the French West African colonial state and grant independence to the four regions …
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… signaled an important phase in the struggle against colonial domination in the sub continent. Under his …