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‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… [19] The Natal government’s handling of the Indian refugee problem provides further evidence of the second-class … may appear the same impression was created…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Originally composed of members recruited from military camps in Angola who were already writing and singing …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… One such incident was the Kassinga massacre, a Namibian refugee camp in Angola on 4 May 1978. The system of …
PlaceCape Flats Nature Reserve, University of the Western Cape, Bellville
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 25 August 1978 The Cape Flats has the world’s highest rate of plant extinction, is highly…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
Olivia Forsyth escaped from her guards and took refuge in the British embassy in Luanda. She was a self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the African…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… Kimberly and Mafeking come under siege. The concentration camps, many in the Rustenburg area, saw 26 370 White women …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… dead, more than 500 injured and thousands in makeshift refugee camps. The Africans, whose toll was 87 killed and 550 …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… British confined much of the rural populace to internment camps. On the eve of defeat, General Smuts decided to lead a …
First Matabele War
In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became premier of South Africa with the support of the Afrikaner Bond. Rhodes' grand imperial vision for a British Africa included…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… styles were developed and practiced within military camps, then adopted throughout “liberated zones”. In … nine months teaching political education courses…
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
In the middle of the night, a group of migrant workers aligned with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ransacked the Phola Park squatter camp of East Rand leaving…
PlaceRwanda
… were internally displaced [clxxvii] . This created huge refugee camps in the areas still controlled by the government. Added …
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… two years, followed by a series of annual "citizen force" camps that could be as lengthy as three months. Legislation …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His middle…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… African War, both in combat and within the internment camps, the tension between the ‘bittereinders’ and the …
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
The revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a non-racial ethos, and revolutionary…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… guts of white people, and whom did we first meet in the camps - Ronnie Kasrils."(a white South African) So in this … THANDISWA MARWANQANA, PHAKAMILE…
Covert operations
… calling themselves 'Witdoeke', emerged in 4 squatter camps referred to here as Crossroads and KTC. The communities … intervening only to assist the Witdoeke,…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… Tanzania, which was the site of several military training camps for South African trainees as well as a nonmilitary school for ANC refugee children, was an…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
Griqualand West was proclaimed as a separate Crown Colony . The discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters,…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
This article was written by Claire Wilt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractInanda Seminary, a private all…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… It eliminated the division of Africa into two ideological camps and eliminated a source of external support that was … following questions: 1. What were the…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The unbanning of the liberation movements on 2 February…
PlaceMauritius
Though Mauritius lies in the waters of the Indian Ocean, between the continents of Africa and Asia, it is situated below the equator, it is considered part of…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
… He also photographed the aftermath of the brutal raids on refugee camps by the Rhodesian Air Force. When he died he left an …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was little to attract other…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… invade Congo to protect Tutsis and destroy Hutu militia camps. Mobutu's government opposes the incursion, prompting …
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Nationalist Government attacks on the union continued. Schoeman refused to gazette the agreement for the clothing industry, which contained the award of the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… programmes to train its members as public speakers. At the camps and picnics it organised, political debates and …