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Biographyde Villiers Graaff
… career was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War , in which he served with the South African forces in … by the Germans at Tobruk, and spent…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… need for more cheap black labour after the Second World War led the South African government to look for migrant … South Africa, mainly from Mozambique and…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
… (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home and settled with his parents … in Jail. (Poems: banned). Scribe Press (1979…
BiographyDr. Philip Blaaiberg
… Town where he subsequently retired. During the 2nd World War Blaaiberg joined the South African Army Medical Corps and … South African Army Medical Corps…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… 1958. Coggin says she became aware of her husband’s Cold War spying activities eight years later in 1966 but chose not … secrets and plans regarding the…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
… (Women of Africa) Paperback – 1984 A Different Kind of War: From Soweto to Pretoria (1986) The Unbreakable Thread - …
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… keeper of the heritage of Isaac Rosenberg, the First World War poet and artist killed in France on 1 April 1918, his … for new biographies and memorabilia…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
… in Rhodesia and served in an African unit in the Boer War. Thereafter he worked at various times as a teacher, …
BiographyZubeida Jaffer
… How the Dutch Dealt With the Traumas of the Second World War: Some Lessons for South Africa, in 1995; History of the …
BiographyAnna Tempo
… and set up a house for them in Napier Street. During World War One many young men came into Cape Town when their ships …
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
… controversial remark on his visit to Iraq during Iraq-Iran war when he declared PAC support to Iraq. This was in sharp …
BiographyLionel Rusty Bernstein
… South Africa artillery and served in Italy during World War Two.In 1946 he was among those charged with sedition …
The Lady in White: British Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop (Journal of Natal and Zulu History), 2018
… Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop (Journal of Natal and Zulu …
UDF Poster ‘NO apartheid war: GUGULETHU LANGA TROOPS OUT OF THE TOWNSHIPS’ by End Conscription Campaign (ECC), 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
… https://www.saha.org.za/udf/no_apartheid_war_gugulethu_langa_troops_out_of_the_townships.htm … UDF Poster ‘NO apartheid war: GUGULETHU LANGA TROOPS OUT OF…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
… KwaZulu-Natal. Following the outbreak of the Second World War , she joined the South African army as a truck driver, … all over the country in a recruiting…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… known as “the great Southwest African Diamond Case.” The Anglo-American Corporation, of which Sir Ernest Oppenheimer …
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
… and left England. At the outbreak of the First World War (1914-1918), he was in India with the 29th Division which … 1918 and was granted a military pension…
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
… up to join the army. He was a soldier during World War II in North Africa and Italy and was wounded by shrapnel in an air raid. After the war, Middleton…
BiographySir George Grey
… father was killed at the sack of Badajoz in the Peninsula War, eight days before he was born in Lisbon. He was educated … of the Cape Colony. At this time,…
BiographyJo Thorpe
… to drive trucks for the South African Army during World War II . After this she worked as a secretary at Michael …
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… Corps.Gawe married Regina in 1936 and during World War II. Reverend Gawe took part in the Defiance of Unjust …
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… After the Anglo-Boer War, there were six British colonies in South Africa. They … their freedom and independence back. This was the first Anglo-Boer War. The…
BiographyLewis Baker
… after they were married. During the Second World War they battled the Ossewa Brandwag , an Afrikaner … that strongly opposed South Africa’s involvement in…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… A number of interrelated factors led to the South African War. The factors that have been covered in the text below … African War, it may be useful to read…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… Makhanda, but in 1827 conducted thorough research on the war-doctor and produced it in ‘New Monthly Magazine’ and … Dispenses Medicine Eliqubulayo Extraction…
BiographyLothar Neethling
… who were supporters of Nazi Germany during World War II came up with a plan to adopt 10 000 German orphans. …
BiographyErrol T. Shanley
… serving as its Natal secretary. During the Second World War, Errol was the secretary of the Natal section of Trades … serving as its Natal secretary. During…
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
… FRELIMO’s victory followed a ten-year liberation war against the Portuguese. He was then charged under the …
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
… it Kekanastaad. In 1945, soon after the Second World War , Masilela met Solomon Buthongo Masilela (popularly known as ‘Thongo’) who had just returned from…
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… attached to the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Italy. After the war , he settled in Cape Town where he joined the War Veterans’ Torch Commando, an organisation led…