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… in 1848 by Boer forces to help withstand attacks by local Basotho tribes. This Museum overlooks the City and is known … Museum has many interesting exhibits from the Anglo Boer War, World War I, World War II and the struggle against Apartheid. These …

… the north of Scotland shortly before the outbreak of World War One. The Cormack family moved around the country a fair …

… the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II . In 1958 she retired from active politics. She was …

… the Cape Colony. After the outbreak of the South African War, Sauer tried to persuade some Afrikaners in the Cape not …

… so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and … males in the early part of the 1930s. The exception was Basotho women who were attracted to Newclare as opposed to … where beer brewing became a lucrative trade.  During World War II Sophiatown's population experienced unprecedented …

… Gus, founded the Ackermans chain after the First World War with two army buddies . Raymond Ackerman re-invented his … Herber won that round, because by 1946 the pressures of war had driven Gus Ackerman and his partners to sell control … send him to the United States to study its burgeoning post war supermarket boom. It was to be his second major learning …

… an area on the way to Pietermartizburg. The Second World War interrupted his schooling. Together with his cousins he had to tend cattle and work on the farm. After the war, he went back to school - it was about seven miles from …

… in North Africa and Italy as a lance corporal. After the war, he resumed his medical studies and qualified with a … Foundation and of the Medical Campaign against Nuclear War. Colleagues of Professor Hoffenberg’s say that he was …

… His departure had been delayed by the Sixth Frontier War. Potgieter moved inland to the northern Free State where …

… Lithuania at the age of six, on the eve of the First World War, and his mother, Ray, had arrived as an infant. Both of …

… States of America drew up the Atlantic Charter as a post war peace and security charter. The Atlantic Charter …

… concentrate on writing a non-fiction book about the hostel war and the road to democracy. He is now once again …

… hostels were, however, bombed during the  Second World War (1939-1945) . She returned to South Africa in 1943 and …

… was as restless as a prowling tigress. By the Second World War she had met and firmly married her "Kushie". The war took the young doctor away to serve in the Middle East, …

… that photography cannot do. It makes the horrors of war universal, finds in maimed limbs and howling mouths a … Like his hero, Francisco de Goya, he saw the horrors of war and repression as generic rather than specific. Towards …

… During his education the background was the Mau Mau war of independence between 1952 and 1963. He obtained a …

… and editor of its The African Teacher.  During the post-war years he became the first principal of the recently …

… in England and came to South Africa after the Second World War and married and settled down in Grahamstown where she was …

… 1941 and 1944, Suzman worked as a statistician for the War Supplies Board. In 1944, she started lecturing in …

… emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very conservative and did their …

… launched Daystar Communications in Zimbabwe. The civil war that erupted in Zimbabwe in 1974 prompted the re-location …

… transport unit of the South African Army. After the war, he returned to his studies and became an organiser for …

… , says the following of the trip: “[it was]”¦ an old war plane, a terrible plane. It rattled and you didn't know …

… rates were extremely high. After the Second World War in the late 1940s, there was a large increase in the … themselves the Ma-Reshea -the Russians and consisted of Basotho migrants. They transported their rural values and dress into urban setting. Ma-Rashea always wore Basotho blankets over their smart city pants, and smart hats …

… against the will of the people. 1881 Basuto chiefs go to war against the Cape Colony over the right of Africans to … Moshoeshoe II the monarch and Chief Leabua Jonathan of the Basotho National Party (BNP) as prime minister. 1970 Chief … government on May 30. King Letsie III appoints the All Basotho Convention’s Thomas Thabane as prime minister on June …

… contributed much toward Shaka's later accomplishments in war. Militarism was thereafter to be a way of life for him, … ground and in so doing secured their greater mobility. His war cry was `Victory or death!' and he kept his impi on … into the central African interior and in their turn sowed war and destruction before developing their own kingdoms. …

… portrait of a city”¦”¦ whilst remaining in the realm of war torn cities, Tillim captures an everyday essence in this … takes him to diverse environments with the common theme of war, destruction, torment, hope, and beauty. Tillim has the …

… from the South Wales valleys to fight in the Boer War.) Glynn Griffiths was a photographer, cartoonist, artist, …

… success, she was forced to return home due to the looming war . She briefly worked as a secretary in the British High … Algeria, Italy, Greece, and Austria until 1945. After the war, Benson worked as a volunteer with displaced persons …