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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 …
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 …
EventWW2: Italy invades Ethiopia
… of expansion were not different from that of other colonial powers in Africa. The aim of invading Ethiopia was …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
… strongly reflected the interests of the indentured and colonial-born Indian. Together they resisted inroads, pleaded …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… to the hut tax which was imposed on the Zulu by British Colonial rule. The SANC and the Transvaal Native Congress …
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… and the whole whitewashed. On 22 December 1787, the Colonial Secretary , Mr A. Barnard, gave orders that Mr Trail … of defects. On receipt of this…
Say It out Loud - The Education Bill, 1906
… that when Sir Lewis Mitchell, in the capacity of Acting Colonial Secretary circulated his letter wherein he asked for … some points in it. You will also…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… hours to and from work each day. Pre-dating apartheid, the colonial era Land Act allocated only 13 percent of the land … what type of society we lived in…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… intellectual gifts, Harriette’s constant battle against colonial prejudice towards the Africans won her the respect … found herself the object of contempt at…
Introduction
… strongly reflected the interests of the indentured and colonial-born Indian. Together they resisted inroads, pleaded …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… Versailles, Germany as a former Axis Power ceded all its colonial possessions to the Allied Powers. However, after the …
EventThe first known reference to Antjie Somers, a South African bogy figure, is made in The Friend
… Somers was the state executioner and torturer in the Cape Colonial government. When capital punishment and the torture …
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… Perspective v Indigenous Systems of Governance and Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Barotseland v Indigenous …
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… of the Transvaal. In South Africa, Duncan was appointed as colonial secretary for the Transvaal. He held several other …
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… who know as intimately what it means to suffer under colonial domination and imperialist plunder. It is fortunate … of national liberation and democracy on…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… and powerful class, e.g. landowners, and because the rigid colonial institutions have prevented the emergence of any … workers. The first handicap of the…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… reviewed by Comrade DG Wolton, who stressed the growth of colonial liberation movements and the colonial workers' growing unity with the workers of the home …
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… all, subordinate to, and under the direct control of, the Colonial Office, can defy the head of that Office and … River Colony towards Coloured persons, and…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… political body which called itself the Indian Settlers and Colonial-born Association. This Association was largely Hindu … Commission infuriated thouÂsands…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… innovation and inquisitive mind make him an unforgettable colonial character, and his writings fascinating and enduring …
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… and Port St Johns. It was back in 1890's that the Cape Colonial Lighthouse Commission, originally recommended … entire cost of coast lighting being provided…