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EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising, also referred to as … The strike began in January 1922 and became an open rebellion against the state…
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… from the Bondelswarts. SA deployed troops to suppress the rebellion. Under Gysbert Reitz Hofmyr's command, the … were defeated by the South African forces,…
EventThe Rand Mine Workers Revolt intensifies
… the prison in Boksburg. Read our features on the Rand Rebellion. …
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… to be intimidated. This marked the beginning of Bambatha Rebellion. Bambatha, sensing that the colonial government … and subsequently beheaded. The outcome…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… cause which carried them into bloody strikes, violence and rebellion. Their main enemy was the Chamber of Mines, a body …
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… ability to successfully plan and execute a large scale-rebellion, as can be seen in the New World. Attempts at rebellion and resistance were more often than…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… reinforcements were sent from Cape Town to put down the rebellion. Five people who were part of the rebellion were killed and 14 other were wounded. The…
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… in Ficksburg, where he was also involved in the 1914 Rebellion. After serving his sentence for his role in the rebellion, Swart pursued his love of law, and…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… On 16 June 1976 , Soweto students began a wide scale rebellion against being forced to accept Afrikaans as the …
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… his enemies and compelled their admiration. When the Zulu rebellion broke out, he again offered his help to the …
EventJomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya
… related to allegations of his complicity in the Mau Mau rebellion. He was released on 14 August 1961. …
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… servants increased tensions, and in January 1799 a second rebellion occurred in Graaff-Reinet. This precipitated the … Third Frontier War (1799-1803) In…
EventThe Rand Revolt Ends
… also known as the Rand Revolt, ended on March 18 1922. The rebellion was a response by White mineworkers to a perceived …
EventBurundi gains independence from Belgium
… leadership of Mwami Mwambutsa IV, a Tutsi. In 1965, a Hutu rebellion broke out, leading to brutal Tutsi retaliations. …
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… 2009. These protests are view as “service delivery”, “rebellion of the poor”, “municipal revolt” or “ring of fire”. …
EventTwo policemen are killed in poll tax resistance
… culminated in the Bhambada (also called Bambatha, Bambata) rebellion in June 1906. …
EventRebel commando leader Fourie is executed
… farmer, soldier and rebel commando leader during the 1914 Rebellion, was executed by a firing squad after being found …
History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… for in that year southern Africa was mired in warfare, rebellion, protest and unrest. One hundred years on, it is an … southern Africa: The outbreak of the…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… it was slightly easier. There is a sense of disquiet and rebellion in the air as nature fights back at humanity’s … , the women out there in the fields and…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… (APO) 1902; Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) 1903; Bambatha Rebellion 1906; Union 1910; formation of South African Native … 2015]. Mare, L.J., (1976), …
Coal Miners Strike on the Rand
… against the government, which became known as the Rand Rebellion. By March 1922 Johannesburg had been turned into a …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.1 Oct-Dec 1960
… Africa, Akin Mabogunje. History in Africa, Basil Davidson. Rebellion Against Racialism, Henry Lee Moon. The Good People, …
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… to the UN by Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, following the rebellion by soldiers against the government. He arranged for …
EventThe second Matabele war breaks out
… The second Matabele war, also known as the Matabele Rebellion or the second Chimurenga broke out on 20 March 1896 …
PlaceTransvaal Province
… The region was annexed by the British in 1877, but a Boer rebellion restored it in 1881. Following the Second Boer War …
EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
… to comply faced death. His Autocratic rule soon fuelled a rebellion, and he was dethroned and replaced, first with his …
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… tax) uprising that was popularly known as the Bambatha rebellion became chief of the AmaZondi people. Bhambatha …
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… the South West Africa campaign and the South African Rebellion. He was responsible for the infamous Native Land …
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
… Centre vividly exhibits the stark realities of evictions, rebellion, riots and suppression. A focus on the ‘Durban …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… under colonial rule and on 11 January 1904 they rose in rebellion. …