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Book Launch: Brothers in War and Peace Abraham and Constand Viljoen and the Birth of the New South Africa
… Book Launch: Brothers in War and Peace Abraham and Constand Viljoen and the Birth of …
The Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire in its 27-year civil war against Unita, to begin the next day.
… announces a unilateral ceasefire in its 27-year civil war against Unita, to begin the next day. …
SA troops led by Gen. Jan Smuts invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I.
… Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I. …
Col. George Sackville Fraser, after whom Fraser’s Camp, military outpost established by the British during the frontier war of
… outpost established by the British during the frontier war of …
WWII: The Active Citizen Force units of SA are authorised to accept volunteers for the duration of the war.
… authorised to accept volunteers for the duration of the war. …
War is barely averted when a British expedition to establish a route through Africa reaches an obscure Sudanese fort and finds
… War is barely averted when a British expedition to establish …
Eighty-three German war orphans arrive in Pretoria. The prime minister, Dr D.F. Malan and his wife adopt a girl.
… Eighty-three German war orphans arrive in Pretoria. The prime minister, Dr D.F. …
Arthur Wellesley Briscoe (30), SA cricket player in three test matches, is killed in Ethiopia during World War II.
… in three test matches, is killed in Ethiopia during World War II. …
World War II: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following d
… World War II: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied …
Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee, cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.
… cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC. …
Election officials confirm Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever
… Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever …
Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, minister of agriculture in the war-cabinet of Gen. Smuts, is born in Calvinia, CC.
… Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss, minister of agriculture in the war-cabinet of Gen. Smuts, is born in Calvinia, CC. …
More British troops are sent to the Suez Canal Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War).
… Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War). …
Lugard, with Maxim gun, helps pro-British Protestants defeat pro-French Catholics in Buganda civil war. Kabaka Mwanga flees.
… Protestants defeat pro-French Catholics in Buganda civil war. Kabaka Mwanga flees. …
BiographyAlan Wieder
… Comrade, and most recently Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid. Although he lives in the United …
BiographyMartin Plaut
… South Africa: Out of the Laager? Fabian Society, 1991 War in the Horn Royal Institute of International Affairs, … Gilkes) Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and…
BiographyDr. Leander Starr Jameson
… Colquhoun, and he was central in the 1893 First Matabele War. He was involved in events that led to the massacre of … an opportunity for the Ndebele to wage…
BiographyJohn Thomas Baines
… Swamps (1850). He became South Africa’s first official war artist and recorded the Eighth Frontier War (1850-1853). In 1852 Baines returned to England and …
BiographyWilliam H. "Bill" Andrews
… speaker. After breaking with the Labour Party on the war issue, he was not re-elected to Parliament in 1915 and turned to organising the anti-war…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… with Dalasile the chief of the AmaQwati. During the Ninth War of Dispossession, Stanford was appointed to oversee the … Stanford then took office. During the…
BiographyGeorge Arthur Heard
… was involved in lobbying for South Africa to enter the war on the Allied side. After the declaration of war, he exposed what he claimed were security…
BiographyJohn Liebenberg
… to Johannesburg, from where he covered the Angolan civil war as freelancer for Reuters. He later joined Media 24 … His Namibian photographic collection…
BiographyJames la Guma
… Cape Town in the period following the South African War (1899-1902), la Guma was no stranger to the privations … harshly exploitative conditions. The…
BiographyDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
… the eastern province of Katanga, Congo where civil war had intensified. Hammarskjöld known as a champion of … a secret meeting to negotiate an end to the…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… when he set up a studio in London after the First World War. His career in England was punctuated by return visits to … as well as his portraits of black…
BiographyLeo Marquard
… also at the forefront of church’s activities. When World War I broke out, Leo joined his brother who had enlisted for … African Institute of Race Relations…
BiographySimon Petros (Peter) Matseke
… a driver for the Boer commandos during the South African War. During his time there he learned to speak High Dutch. Following the war he was employed as a…
BiographyMaema Matlala
… man who had served in East Africa during the First World War,was related by blood, to the royal family, was the … vans, to be taken away’. He responded that…
Somalia: A Government at the War with its People - Testimonies about the killings and the Conflict in the North, January 1990
… Somalia: A Government at the War with its People - Testimonies about the killings and the …
ArchiveSomalia – The Untold Story: The War Through the Eyes of Somali Women edited by Judith Gardner and Judy El Bushra
… Somalia – The Untold Story: The War Through the Eyes of Somali Women edited by Judith Gardner …