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ArticleBlack South African literature
… Black soldiers to the allied cause in France during World War I, when hundreds of lives were lost, led to no … in 1930. The novel form, however, was taken up…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… period of internal conflict a large amount of captives of war, refugees, and conquered peoples were captured by … Image source Internal Conflict,…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… about 30,000 indentured workers in Natal, and before the Anglo-Boer War a few thousand had moved to the Transvaal. Indentured … the first campaign After the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of Dispossession between the Khoi-San of the colonial … for the eastern frontier 1811 - 1812 The…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… of captain in the South African Air Force during World War Two. He served in North Africa and Italy and on being … like Consolidated Diamond Mines or De…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… liberation movement in South Africa proved to be a bloody war between the country’s government and anti-apartheid … of Intelligence was essential in winning…
Bonani Africa 2010 Photographic Festival Conference: Papers and Abstracts
… Conference Programme 2010 Documenting the Aftermath: War in Southern Africa by Jo Ractliffe South of No North: A …
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… The history of KwaMsiza has its roots in the ZAR-Ndzundza War of 1882 , when a commando of some 2000 Boers attacked the Ndebele capital of Namashaxelo. As a…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… Africans to view themselves as South Africans. After World War I nationalists fostered moves for self-determination. As … who had moved to the United States…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… the Treaty of Vereeniging of 31 May 1902, which ended the Anglo-Boer War and laid the basis for the adoption of South Africa's … the Constitutional Assembly…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… 1 September, Germany invades Poland and the Second World War commences when Britain declares war on Germany on 3 September. The outbreak of war causes an…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… gold at the Rand was the chief cause of the South African War. This is not completely true, as British imperialism was … the Treaty of Vereeniging. The…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… the Afrikaners had already been defeated in the Boer War (1899-1902) , but the British acted to appease the Boers … already existing in the region, though…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… on heavy industries. In 1917, as the USA entered the war, Weinberg notes how “Major industrial interests profited … greatly. Sitting at the lever of the…
ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
… (ARPCT) and gaining sole control over Somalia’s war-torn capital. This victory was significant enough to be a … to portray their struggle in Somalia as part…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… provide a basis for an understanding of the direction the war against apartheid was to take. The intense emotion and … Chief of the SADF, 'area defence,' a…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… national struggle and the Congress movement in the post-war penal. He joined the CPSA in 1939, was secretary of the … British imperialism, a claim that was a…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… Indians into the South African Defence Force for the war effort. The state in an attempt to get Black support for the war effort tones down anti-segregation…
ArticleTransport in the air
… one to be recorded. Eleven years after this flight, World War One broke out. Planes had by then developed quite a bit, and they became widely used in the war…
Conclusion: Treks & Land conflicts 1600s - 1800s
… world, where commodities like oil and diamonds cause war and destruction, especially in Africa and the Middle East. …
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… biggest shareholder in De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is Anglo American PLC. Today the company remains the biggest …
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… He arrived accompanied by an army and later declared war on the King. After successfully overthrowing the King he … was formed in the United Kingdom to serve…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… against the Land Act but the outbreak of the First World War thwarted their hopes © unknown Since 1652, successive … that he could do. This was the year the…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… against the Land Act but the outbreak of the First World War thwarted their hopes © unknown Since 1652, successive … that he could do. This was the year the…
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… the CPSA. The movement was probably disbanded during the war years. …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… against injustice that took place after the Second World War , and the fight against the inhumane rule of the … of Human Rights. In the aftermath of the…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… road accident in the 1990s. The Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) was founded by political exiles in … and Amsterdam in the late 1970s,…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
… long distance from Cape Town to Somerset West. In 1987, Anglo-American Farms Limited (AmFarms) bought Vergelegen from …
The Afrikaner Bond
… a success for Du Toit. Much of the success was due to the ‘war of independence’ against the annexation of the Transvaal … in 1877. In 1881 the Boers…