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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 …
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… Malawi was taken without his consent. Like an enthusiastic colonial officer he wanted to impose on Malawi his idea of education and progress, but no colonial…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South Africa, the …