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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 …
PlaceThembuland
… definition of the area has also changed over time. Before colonial conquest, it was divided into Tembuland Proper, … River, in what was later the district of…
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…
PlaceNewcastle
… the pending annexation of the Transvaal by the British the colonial authorities decided to establish a fort at …
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…
Public dialogue: Cultural Erasure & Memory Reclamation
… youth come together to reflect on the lasting impacts of colonial erasure and the power of memory, language, and …
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 …
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference My proposed paper looks into connections between radical politics in…
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
… settled in these Villages after the War of 1850, by the colonial authorities. The starvation and hardship caused by … place here over the years, and the…
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…
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 …
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…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… (and confidentially) to Buxton: "At present the Colonial Government does nothing as to relations with the … an amicable tone and assured his lordship that …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the two dominant white political interests, the English colonial territories and recently defeated Afrikaner …