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… announced that it had completed destroying its stock pile of anti-personnel mines. A total of 261 423 were destroyed, while 18 000 were retained for training purposes. 5 000 of the mines left were live mines and 13 000 were retained to … Convention on Prohibition or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be …

… South African government finally approved the introduction of 99-year leasehold rights for blacks in the townships of Nyanga, Langa and Gugulethu. The government also promised … in those areas. The statement was made by the Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Gerrit Viljoen. Viljoen …

… The first and only elected Prime Minister of the Congo Republic , Patrice Lumumba , was assassinated a … Congo gained formal independence from Belgium. The killing of Lumumba remained a secret for years. Lumumba was forcibly … by Katangan forces (a group looking to be seperate of the newly independent Congo Republic) and Belgian …

… and, usually, he exercises that power on the advice of his Ministers. The way the Native Bill has been passed … in mind that under Letters Patent constituting the Office of Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony, there are Bills that the Governor is enjoined …

… Ian Smith became prime minister of the self-governing British colony of Rhodesia in 1964. In keeping with the postwar trend toward … to permit Rhodesian independence, but only on the basis of giving the black majority population a fair share of … Sorcebook,(1965), Prime Minister Ian Smith: Announcement of Unilateral Declaration of Independence ,November …

… address by Mrs Fatima Meer at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Camp Jonathan, Eston, Natal, July … the Union should take in the 1970s. The alienation of Black students was of particular concern. … 70s. Official opening address at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, July 1970 …

… Former Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and General Constand Viljoen, former commander of the South African Defence Force (SADF), denied accusations … about the mass graves found at Eenhana, 850km north-east of Windhoek, capital of Namibia. The bodies were believed to …

… Paper presented at the 55th National Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1977. Paper refers to concerns … NUSAS and the future - critical appraisal of structure and direction …

… archive South Africa received a mandate from the League of Nations over South West Africa (SWA) on 17 December 1920. Under the rules of the mandate the government of the Union of South Africa was invested with administrative … Proceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice …

… The colony of Sierra Leone was conceived by British philanthropists and … African slaves freed in England. A Temne king sold a strip of land on the north shore of the Sierra Leone Peninsula to the Sierra Leone Company for … British create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves …

… The former Prime Minister of Transkei Chief George Mzivubu Mathanzima dies at Frontier … George Matanzima was appointed initially as the Minister of Education, but he was elevated to the Minister of Justice. In 1979 George was appointed as the Prime …  [Accessed 28 October 2010] Jakkie Cilliers,  An Overview of the Armed Forces of the TBVC Countries  from the Institute …

… British again clashed in what became known as the battle of Dalmanutha (Bergendal). The battle lasted six days, ending on the 27th of August when the Boers retreated. This was the last conventional battle of the South African War (1899-1902). The climax of the …

… Fietas, a western suburb of Johannesburg, was officially re-named Pageview in honour of Mr. J.J. Page, the Mayor of Johannesburg at the time. Up until this point, the area … and information received from the  'Fietas Festival Programme'  organizers … Fietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview …

… Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki resigned as president of the Republic South Africa on Sunday 21 September 2008. … motion notifying the National Assembly on the resignation of Mbeki, and 25 September 2008 was put forward as the date on which the resignation of president would become effective. An objection to the …

… Explanation of the Constitutional nature of the National Union of South African Students, National Student Assembly, the … Draft reply to commission of enquiry request for oral evidence …

… Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd was premier of South Rhodesia from 1953 till 1958. As a leader of a White minority regime during the period, he was considered a bit of an aberration as many of the initiatives he proposed and … Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia. …

… Formerly known as the Belgian Congo, the Republic of Congo was established in 1960. The fight for independence was initially led by Patrice Lumumba of the National Congolose Movement (NCM). Independence Day was marked on 30 June 1960, with the election of Lumumba as prime minister, and Joseph Kasavubu as …

… this date a poem by Nontsizi Mgqwetho lamenting the death of her mother was published. Mgqwetho was the first woman … 1920 to 1929 she contributed more than ninety poems, most of them to the Johannesburg weekly newspaper of the Chamber of Mines, Umteteli wa Bantu (The mouthpiece of …

… Present-day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the territory was claimed and … as German control grew and on 11 January 1904 the leader of the Herero, Samuel Maharero ordered the extermination of …

… Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This thesis is concerned with the … The politics of nonracialism: White opposition to apartheid, 1945-1960 …

… The leaders of the four 'independent' homelands, namely; Bophuthatswana, … the South African State President P. W. Botha . At the end of the meeting a joint declaration was issued that stated, … that all attempts to disrupt the economic development of Southern Africa by sanctions, boycotts and similar …

… Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) formed a … seats in the new Assembly, all in his tribal homeland of Matabeleland. Initially, Mugabe offered Nkomo a ceremonial … Nkomo rejected the offer and instead, accepted the post of Minister of Home Affairs. Two years later, Nkomo was …

… South African Parliament opened with the debate of 'no confidence' in government, which was introduced by the Leader of the political opposition, the United Party, Sir de … did not provide adequately for the national security of the country by failing "to take the public into its …

… Movement where it came from Chapter II - Functions of the Missionary Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defendre of the Hottentots” Chapter IV - Divide and Rule Chapter V - Political role of the mission Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand Chapter … The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke …

… hit squads to destabilise South Africa before the end of apartheid. They were also charged with the 1987 massacre of thirteen people in KwaZulu-Natal's Kwamakutha Township. It … is the biggest crisis that's ever been in the democracy of South Africa. I am a moderate.... I am a democrat.... I am …

… Prime Minister Ian Smith and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met in Pretoria to discuss majority … Prime Minister B.J. Vorster joined the final stages of the talks.  Towards the end of 1974, Vorster, backed by President Kenneth Kaunda of … C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed ., Pretoria: Academica, p. 569   …

… National Congress (ANC), is attended by a large number of people, men and women, from South Africa, Botswana, … to discuss the conditions caused by the Native Land Act of 1913 and to chart a way forward. Also in the agenda of the meeting was a report from a delegation, which was …

… Sir Harry Smith was the Governor and High Commissioner of the Cape Colony from 1847-1852. He ruled during the time of the Frontier Wars and was remowned for his autocratic … tendencies. He was responsible for annexing the whole of British Kaffraria on his own initiative and introducing …

… and damaging three other vehicles. The first indication of African unrest at Soweto schools was noticed by government … authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development and of Bantu Education, M. C. Botha. On that date 2 000 Black …

… in Africa on this day when the embattled ex-British colony of Rhodesia was declared independent and renamed Zimbabwe. The lowering of the Union Jack and the raising of the new Zimbabwean flag was a symbolic event for the … End of the road for the Union Jack in Africa …