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ArticleKenyan Timeline
… imprisons suspected Mau Mau supporters in concentration camps, where human rights abuse and torture are commonplace. … Islamist rule and looming conflict…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… whom Head raised by herself after her divorce. Head was a refugee, or a “stateless person,” for fifteen years until she … pages long. She first wrote about…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… their money. 17 January, 44 738 Indians were housed in camps following the rioting that took place in Durban , … in food, a convoy of cars and lorries…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… many thousands of Blacks. In 1901, separate concentration camps for Blacks were established to accommodate those who … cash tenants or share-croppers. Those…
ArchiveAnti-apartheid 1978
… Two small black and white photographs, one of a refugee camp and one of a dead body. United Nations High …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… This number also includes numerous other tented mining camps that sprung up in proximity to other discoveries and … Therefore, most workers were simply…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… up the remaining Herero and take them to concentration camps as prisoners of war. 1905 February , The first official concentration camps for prisoners of war…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Thousands of Indians leave their homes and take refuge in camps organised by NIC officials as rioting spreads from … the victims. Congress leaders were…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… the ANC’s political posts and the clandestine training camps of its guerrilla army, Umkhonto We Sizwe (“Spear of the … worries as well. In 1986, South…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… examination. He had already visited two banishment camps in the Northern Cape for us, with visitors whom we had … men too, an eloquent speaker. It was sad to…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… on a meagre UN allowance, collected after standing in long refugee queues every month. The ANC put us up in safe-houses … plan. But the liberation movement…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… namely the destruction of the Crossroads and KTC squatter camps housing 70 000 people. Situations which invite … way and forced into a twilight existence…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… dead, more than 500 injured and thousands in makeshift refugee camps. The Africans, whose toll was 87 killed and 550 …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… states targeting mainly ANC safe houses, activists and camps. In addition, the apartheid government sought to … two women and two children) and one South…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… normal excuses for aggression. There have never been ANC camps in Mozambique. There are residences like everywhere …
Submissions & winning projects 2009
Learners First place: Fairouz West (Western Cape), ‘A history of sport’ Second place: Neo Panane (North West Province), ‘A history of my school’ Third…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… groups. Thousands of new recruits were being trained in camps in sympathetic African countries and elsewhere in … the ANC with the opportunity to set up…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… they established offices, military training bases and camps. In South Africa, the government passed a series of … August, A.K. Ganyile, a Pondo leader who…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… with fellow students. They endured a period of time in refugee camps in Swaziland and Zambia; dodged the Portuguese security …
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… MCHUNU (visitor) PULE aka MAZIBUKO THEMBA (an ANC member & refugee) The parents of both Isaac Matlhare and Tsepo Makoa, … in the next account. This is the…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… are killed in ‘Witdoeke’ clashes in Cape Town Squatter camps. 20-25 May, 11 people are killed in KwaMashu, township … ‘Witdoeke’ (white headband) clashes in…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… employment as Head Clerk and Interpreter in the Native Refugee Department at Harrismith. 71 The Native Refugee Department was established in June 1901 in the…
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… of Angola. 1978 4 May Air and ground strike on SWAPO refugee camp at Kassinga inside Angola; over 600 deaths 1981 …
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
The first sign of open resistance against payment of the tax came when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to collect taxes from the Hlongwa and Cele clans in…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… namely the destruction of the Crossroads and KTC squatter camps housing 70 000 people. Situations which invite … way and forced into a twilight existence…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… by the mfecane and Zulu expansion was KwaZulu Natal. Refugee groups fleeing Shaka’s army caused destruction in the …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… two women and two children) and one South African refugee were killed. Over 30 people are injured. 26 May, Slow …
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… in the press of the exemplary behaviour of Africans in refugee camps, who paid for all relief, and the dishonest, …