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France proclaims a protectorate over Chad.
France proclaims a protectorate over Chad.
ArchiveBattle looms over shack destruction
ArchiveFlurry over symbols a handy bypass?
ArchiveControversy over bill of rights
ArchiveTightrope over treachery and terror
Brett Eloff
Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, South Africa. He began his career in…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… Minister developed the concept of 'total strategy' to cover many aspects of political, economic, military and …
EventWalvis Bay is handed over to Namibia
The South African government ended eighty-four years of control over the Walvis Bay enclave by handing over the port and twelve offshore islands to the…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… he was arrested for political reasons, saying he would cover for him until his release. Thanks to the intervention …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
Location: back to this day in history search archive Walvis Bay, from the Dutch for "Whale Bay", is situated in Namibia, along the west coast of southern…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
Fifty people were killed over three days in battles between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters in Natal, South Africa,…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… when Parliament was in session he traveled to Cape Town to cover the sessions and to lobby for African interests as a …
BiographyBilly Modise
… also studying at Lund, thus his work later extended to cover liberation movements from across Southern Africa. While …
BiographyLesley Lawson
… Jacqui Nolte and others - who discussed and planned how to cover the event. Lawson sees this time as a precursor to the …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… and AK-47 rifle fell out, with the policeman running for cover. The trio panicked and fled from the taxi, disappearing … Mahlangu ran into John Orr’s…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
The Bridge was Built in 1901 using Jarrah Wood by the Royal Engineers to provide an Entrance to a Cannon Trench. Since its Erection it was in constant use…
ArchiveVW workers down tools over retrenchments
ArchiveTussle at VW over tour kombis
The All Blacks rugby tour was called off in July just a week before the team was due to leave New Zealand. It was determined protest and resistance to the tour…
ArchiveOver 1 500 detained since July 20
One of the major reasons for the State President, PW Botha, declaring a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts was to justify the mass detentions of…
ArchiveWomen workers strike over job evaluation
ArchiveChemical workers - the struggle over disinvestment
The struggle over land - Northern frontier
France establishes protectorate over Ivory Coast.
EventThe League of Nations hands over German colonies
The League of Nations, an international body which preceded the United Nations, agreed to hand over three former German colonies as mandates. Tanganyika, which…
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
Governments across the world applied United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destruction of a Pan Am airliner…
BiographyKlaas Matlala
… the HRWC had sent to him was that ‘when I die you must cover my body with it because this coat showed me that I was …
BiographyErnest Cole
… twin lens reflex camera. Figure 1. ‘House of Bondage’ book cover. A series of photographic essays by Ernest Cole. Random …
BiographyFranco Frescura
… as the author of a well-known lampoon published on the cover of Wits Student in 1972 which featured a child looking …
BiographyJoseph Masobila Mdluli
… Minister of Justice denied that there was any attempt to cover up the death of Mdluli. Then on 13 May, the ANC …