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EventMoroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni
… part of Morocco, the Rif area, was ceded to Spain. Early twentieth century opposition to French and Spanish rule …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… Wars feature, to read more about the Matabele Wars and the early history of the Ndebele people and …
PlaceNamaqualand
… species which make a short but spectacular appearance early in Spring, after good Winter rains have fallen. These … are able to survive for long periods…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… of sixty-nine black demonstrators, she was influenced very early in her life to becoming an activist. By the end of … BCM, Madlala-Routledge became…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… 1963. Jonas Matlou Another figure connected with the ANC’s early contact in Botswana was Jonas Dinoue Matlou . He was … people fleeing political persecution…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… place in this street. I remember in the late 1980’s to early 90’s when the fight between IFP(Inkatha Freedom Party) … LD: I can’t exactly remember, mzukulu!…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… in the door in the U.S. entertainment scene and by the early 1960s she was performing in New York City nightclubs. … on the struggles faced by African…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… By the early 1980s, the Congress movement was becoming established … A new wave of witchcraft accusations and killings in early 1994 saw 70 people killed…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… was established as an effective political force by the early 1970s, and by 1972 it had achieved a success that made … all of them defining themselves as …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… Prison singing the ‘Red Flag’ (the official anthem of early socialist and communists in South Africa). Samuel Long, … the first Annual Conference of the YCL,…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… pass book, they were at risk of being arrested. In the early years, these laws applied mainly to men, and when the … in an attempt to control the Black…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… Black people in South Africa. However, the 1950s and the early 1960s, showed the intension by the South African … of the Abyssinian campaign and a 'desert…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… of time. We refer to these first farmers as people of the Early Iron Age. Archaeologists have found plenty of evidence at many Early Iron Age sites of trade…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… legendary leader. When the Ledwaba entered the area in the early 19th century, they found the Sebietela to the south and …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… years in 1930, the ICU disintegrated and died out in the early 1930s. (article: The decline and fall of the ICU - A …
EventFearon Fallows, the first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born
… studying, especially subjects like mathematics, and at the early age of 19 he became an assistant at a school. He went …
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… completed his MPhil in Politics. He started poetry in his early twenties. Gwala published his poems, essays and short …
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… by briefly tracing the community's struggles from the early 1860s, against the racist laws that targeted them, …
EventThe first Cape to Rio yacht race takes place
… challenge. Unfortunately she sheared a main rudder post early in the race. The 3 600 nautical mile race has been …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… In early 1966 John Lennon was reading about Christianity and …
EventAbram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates
… on 16 November 1964. Fischer then went underground early in 1965 and eluded the security police until his arrest …
EventExplorer and navigator Vasco da Gama completes his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to India
… son of an explorer, however little else is known about his early life. Da Gama was said to have been educated in the …
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… expression of discontent against the pass system. As early as 1913 protests against were launched in the the … [Accessed 19, October, 2010] Limb P, (2010)…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… a keen interest in war correspondence. Some of his early literary works were reports on various military …
Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) at UCT ‘WINTER SCHOOL 2014 : Using climate information for adaptation and policy development’
… website – < http://www.csag.uct.ac.za/winterschool > and early application is encouraged as places are limited. The …
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… in the British Foreign Office in the late 19th century and early 20th century died in Canterbury, England. Milner came …
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… to educating the scions of the country’s wealthy white settlers. Beginning in 1963, the college had also accepted a … government in the liberation war that…
PlaceElandsfontein Private Nature Reserve, Western Cape
… The dunes on Elandsfontein are the final resting place of early humans and animals that date back to the early Stone Age. The safari includes a rest stop…
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
… the new maximum-security prison was established in the early 1960s. The living conditions were, particularly in the early years, extremely bad. Prisoners had…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… International outreach, UN partnership While most of the early 1960s trials were indirectly funded by Canon Collins in … London office had never made a…