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EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… under French rule in 1892. After almost seventy years of colonial rule, Mali was renamed the Sudanese Republic, …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… Prinsloo, organised an uprising against the British colonial power. The rebellion was quickly quashed, with a …
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… the drain in a split second. Mugabe even challenged former colonial ruler Britain, saying that if she wanted to see the …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… the Lancaster agreements in which Britain, as the former colonial power, agreed to pay for the reacquisition of land …
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… tradition maintains that he drank mainly at meetings with colonial officials, who deliberately plied him with alcohol …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… held the belief that the true plotters were land-hungry colonial authorities. …
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
… and importance of indigenous African languages in post-colonial modern societies has proved to be a contentious … at home and in school. Decades after…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… there are also many concrete structures in the Portuguese colonial style. Many people still live in barrack-like accommodations on the plantations. Decades…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… these Regions it did not spread until, on the back of the Colonial expansion of Europe overseas, fledgling Jewish … and British Empires. In the case of the…
Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… Institutions of learning became centre to challenge colonial domination and injustice, for this, the thorny gown … in a different setting. Our countries are…
PlaceUmlazi
… to the Native tribes of Natal, appointed by the British colonial authorities, orchestrated a system in his … area of Umlazi was evacuated in an attempt to…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… South African Indian Community with the formation of the Colonial Born and Indian Settlers Association. May, Pixley ka … contradicted by a tolerance and even…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… had increased to such an extent that that the Natal Colonial Secretary was forced to set up a special Indian …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… them into less fertile areas of the region. Soon the colonial project was well underway. With the systematic …
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… each year from an archive of San narratives recorded by colonial linguists Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek in the 1870s. …
Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
… people everywhere in the world. And having fought colonial domination in Algeria, they know what is involved in …
PlaceNqweba was called Kirkwood, Eastern Cape
… and old farmhouses that smack of the luxuries of a bygone colonial era. During the harvest (April to September), …
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… old coastal town. It is home to the City Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the mid-1800’s. Its clock …
EventPope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who were persecuted and martyred from 1885
… on 3 June1886. In the last week of May the new King of pre-colonial Buganda, ordered the arrest and detention of a …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… for the trek was the general dissatisfaction with British colonial rule in the Cape Colony. The language (Afrikaans), …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Hendrik Prinsloo planned an uprising against the British colonial government as they believed that the British favored …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… of Samuel Maharero started a rebellion against German colonial rule. With good knowledge of the terrain and …
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… For the next decade Rhodesia was subjected to anti colonial struggles led by Zimbabwe African National Union …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… humiliating requests for aid to the West's former colonial powers’. The Economist reports on interventions led …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… Miller Longman, 1991, p.19. “As early as 1870 the British colonial authorities in Lesotho (then Basutoland) imposed a … Earl of Kimberley, who at the time…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil war was raged between two major …
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… north-west South Africa to determine its suitability for colonial settlement. Due to the extent of his involvement, …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… them ended disastrously for the British forces. The Colonial Office sent Roberts and Kitchener along with …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… much like the rest of the African continent, was ruled by colonial powers that left a legacy of ethnic and class …
Address to the Biennial Meeting of the Association for The Development of Education in Africa (Adea), Johannesburg, 6 December 1999
… task at hand is magnified when we consider the legacy of colonial education, the long-term effects of the domination … the incorporation of the African…