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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…
Special Screening of Wat Was Hie? Followed by an engaging discussion with filmmaker Luke De Kock
… and Khoi peoples and confronts the harsh legacy of Dutch colonial slavery through poetic reenactments, asking: WHAT …
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 ,…
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
Q: How did we get a place called Grahamstown? A: Before there was a town, the place was called Egume by the local people. Then the British came and named it…
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 …
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 …