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EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… visited almost every concentration camp in South Africa. They found that the camps in the Orange Free State … Potgieter, D.J. (ed)(1971). Standard…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… 8th, 1912, representatives of the African peoples of southern Africa assembled at Bloemfontein. From all parts of South … The formation of the ANC was a…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… Location: back to this day in history search archive South Africa received a mandate from the League of Nations over South West Africa (SWA) on 17 December…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… trade unionist and a socialist. He had links throughout Southern Africa and an understanding of the social linkages between … in Zimbabwe to build bases for…
EventPresidents of Mozambique and South Africa meet
… In search of peace two Southern African presidents, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, … Machel who mysteriously died in a plane crash in South Africa, met his…
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
… D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa Vol.11, Cape Town: NASOU. …
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… aimed at the Gujarati-speaking Muslim community of Southern Africa. Fatima was the second of nine children in her family. … that was violating the land right…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… Overview, West Africa and the rise of the Songhai Empire West Africa is home … 15th and 16th century into a powerful kingdom in the most southern parts of…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… written by Alexandra Larkin and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract … Coloured, Western Cape, wine, tot,…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 By December 1982, the government of Lesotho … rejected P.W. Botha's proposal of a …
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… in Tanzania and to other African countries including South Africa. His commitment to the liberation of Africa from White minority rule was demonstrated…
Nelson Mandela University presenting AEE REP qualification programme
… (EnTF), the sole approved training partner for the Southern African region of the AEE, the Faculty of … to expand its training programs to other regions…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
… Western Cape, one of the fastest growing regions in South Africa. It has operated safely and efficiently for over 28 … to go still. Koeberg, the only nuclear…
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… President Robert Mugabe assured members the 14-member Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) that the 9-10 March … after the 2002 elections prompted…
We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
… Algeria which has suffered so much for the freedom of Africa and attained so brilliant a triumph in the victory of … be a grim and bitter one. The States of…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… rule and apartheid, which would increase conflict in southern Africa. … Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political…
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… disease, rinderpest. Robert Koch was brought to South Africa by the Cape Government to investigate and find a cure … decade of the 19th century. The epidemic…
EventSekhukhune successfully resists the Boers
… D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 576. Pedi Wars …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… When the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in 1948, certain laws had to be put in place to … nor write for an audience. By 1966, 936 people…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… South Africa announced that it had completed destroying its stock … or people rather than equipment. In the 1990s South Africa began to revise its policy on…
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… one of the founding Museums of Ditsong Museums of South Africa and the oldest in the Country. The Museum is situated … (Tshwane) and was founded as the…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… For the oppressed people of South Africa the commemoration of the twentieth year of the … causes will increase in the years of conflict in southern Africa…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… Vela satellite recorded a double flash of light over the southern Indian Ocean, near South Africa's Prince Edward Islands, roughly midway between Africa ……
PlaceZimbabwe
… . In the 1880s the country became a British Colony, called Southern Rhodesia , which lasted until 1965 when the white … rock paintings , many of which are…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… received support from the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa (FEDSEM), located close to Fort Hare. Figures such as … University Christian…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Mercosur Heads of State Summit Ushuaia, 24 July 1998
… the affinities between the peoples of this continent and Africa. We are conscious of how, whenever circumstances … our West are renewed under modern…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… on the Policy of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa (Special Committee Against Apartheid) expressed very … Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. …
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led to the movement of powerful … by the African National Congress (ANC)…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… of Fort Hare and joins fellow students from South Africa and other countries, eg Joe Mathews, Ntsu Mokhehle from Lesotho and Herbert Chitepo from Southern…
PlaceBotshabelo
… the most important station of the Berlin Society in South Africa. Here were established a school, seminary, workshops, … converts in the region. The Berlin…