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EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… He subsequently fled the colony, but three of the colonial troops were killed in a clash on the Bushman's River …
EventDutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed
… by the States-General of the Netherlands to carry out colonial activities in Asia. With its headquarters in …
PlaceThembuland
… definition of the area has also changed over time. Before colonial conquest, it was divided into Tembuland Proper, … River, in what was later the district of…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… September 2016 Image source On 15 September 2016, in a pre-birthday celebration, Winnie celebrated her 80 birthday …
PlaceNewcastle
… the pending annexation of the Transvaal by the British the colonial authorities decided to establish a fort at …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the two dominant white political interests, the English colonial territories and recently defeated Afrikaner …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… meetings were held and various telegrams were sent to the Colonial Secretary to prevent the lading of any more free …
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… International paid scant attention to the national and colonial struggle (under which the South African question … Congress stated quite clearly that the…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… were not so good, the location was very convenient. The Colonial Office received the deputation with distinct … deputation of their eagerness to raise their…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… Commissioners Ladies and Gentlemen: Throughout the post-colonial period, the so-called political class and the … were poor. Economically, they were linked to…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the ‘ colonial ’ language of the White Afrikaner oppressor. Indeed, … nationalism and Apartheid. [10]…
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… base and spearhead in the struggle against imperialist, colonial and racist domination, against imperialist reaction … now embraces one-third of the world's…
Public dialogue: Cultural Erasure & Memory Reclamation
… youth come together to reflect on the lasting impacts of colonial erasure and the power of memory, language, and …
PlaceGeorge Division
… been covered by extensive indigenous forests, but during colonial times these were heavily depleted through …
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Fairbairn’s efforts paid off when in April 1829 the Cape Colonial government gave an undertaking to guarantee the …
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… The colonial history of Equatorial Guinea dates back to 1471 when …
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… their territory. In response to public outcry, the British Colonial Office in South Africa appointed a Mr Labouchere as …
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… 1894, this is one of Durban’s few remaining links with its Colonial past. It is the oldest licenced premises in the …
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference My proposed paper looks into connections between radical politics in…
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
… settled in these Villages after the War of 1850, by the colonial authorities. The starvation and hardship caused by … place here over the years, and the…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… to all the disenfranchised, enslaved communities of the colonial and semi-colonial countries.” Although Dadoo’s support for the … long ago lay prostrate…
African History Books
table { border: none; border-collapse: collapse; } td { border: none; border-color: red; } During the month of May we celebrate Africa…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… During the Zulu War, on 20 January 1879, British and Natal colonial troops under Lord Chelmsford, commander of the … than Paul Kruger of the Transvaal, and…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… its harvests were little better than "average". During the colonial era the country was still generously covered with … east of Cathcart, rose in rebellion…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… who know as intimately what it means to suffer under colonial domination and imperialist plunder. It is fortunate … of national liberation and democracy on…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… (and confidentially) to Buxton: "At present the Colonial Government does nothing as to relations with the … an amicable tone and assured his lordship that …
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… in a constitutional void. At the same time you seek to pre-empt the work of the Constituent Assembly by the Codesa … and governance of regions shall be such…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… lieutenants have at last recognised the iniquity of the colonial and racist apartheid system and acknowledged the … but whose real and sole intention is to…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… lieutenants have at last recognised the iniquity of the colonial and racist apartheid system and acknowledged the … but whose real and sole intention is to…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… Keegan examines the role of imperialism and the birth of a colonial society. The British attempt to conquer and control … Cape liberal tradition and the non…