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EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… (PAC) visited Libya to negotiate the use of Libyan territory for military training purposes for its armed wing, … political organizations fighting Apartheid…
PlaceGriqualand West
… their lands and, after an epic migration, settled in the territory of Griqualand East. In 1867 the discovery of … October 1871 the diamond fields were…
ArchiveLusaka Conference between MPC, Swapo and Administrator-General, 11-13 May 1984
… of South West Africa for a negotiated settlement in the territory …
ArticleXhosa
… His descendants expanded the kingdom by settling in new territory and bringing people living there under the control … Town. As the years passed, they sought…
ArchiveProtest note to Mocambique
… against the Republic of South Africa from Mozambique territory …
PlaceLebowa
… It became a semi-independent national state in 1972. The territory was fragmented into six separate areas scattered … designated by the South African…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… with administrative and legislative powers over the territory, subject to certain guarantees. After the founding … as the years passed that SWA should become…
PlaceThembuland
… region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the Thembu people, one … also forbade any white settlement in…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… 1994 South Africa transitions to democracy and transfers territory (Walvis Bay enclave and 12 islands of the Namibian …
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… Bantustans made-up only 13% of South Africa in terms of territory , they were Venda, Bophuthatswana, Transkei and …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… duty of the SADF was to defend and protect South African territory, there were times when this merged with that of the …
ArticleThe Johanna
… in turn gave the company the power to colonise whichever territory it desired and enslaved the indigenous people to …
ArchiveBraklaagte: Resisting Incorporation: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1989
… discussing homelands, Bophuthatswana, incorporation of new territory into homelands, apartheid, forced removals, …
EventPlebiscite for South West Africa
… South Africa or the United Nations should administer the territory. …
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of time. By the 1830's, a centre of … Since the Mfengu arrived in various…
PlaceWestern Sahara
… recognized state since Morocco is claiming part of the territory. Formerly (1958–76) Spanish Sahara, territory occupying an extensive desert Atlantic-coastal…
ArchiveSeparate development: the challenge of the Transkei
… Memorial lecture The Transkei became a semi-autonomous territory in Decmber 1963 and separate territorial …
PlaceWalvis Bay, Namibia
… (JAA) in November 1992 to administer the 300 square mile territory. The amicable resolution to this territorial …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… His descendants expanded the kingdom by settling in new territory in the Eastern Cape region and bringing people … Town. As the years passed, they sought to…
EventMafeking is established
… commission, established to settle all land disputes in the territory after the Bechuanaland Wars. The town, which was …
PlaceSeshego, a Township
… designated by the South African government as the national territory for the northern Sotho people (Pedi, Lovedu, …
EventSwaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
… of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claims the territory is historically and culturally part of the Swazi …
EventThe Bloemfontein Convention is signed
… The convention guaranteed the independence of the territory between the Orange and Vaal Rivers. In addition to …
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… Christians and extending the frontiers of Islam. As their territory grew, religious zeal became less important. What …
PlaceMalawi
… John Rhodes. Which led to British colonisation of the territory as the Shire Highland Territory. It was renamed Nyasaland in 1907. The first …
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… the Great Kei river and their lands were formed into the territory of British Kaffraria. In due course this was … by the British to settle on land east of…
EventPotgieter barters land from Chief Makwana
… one of the leaders of the Voortrekkers, obtained the territory between the Vet and Vaal Rivers from the Bataung …
EventBritish Kaffraria becomes a province with its own administration
… early 1830s. Several frontier wars were fought over the territory, but in 1860 the area was declared a Crown Colony …
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army'
… in Natal, beginning with the occupation of the Territory in 1843, had been wary of provoking a war with the …
EventUN committee is barred to enter SA
… instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa, was refused permission to enter …