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EventLand beyond the Great Berg River is annexed
… centenary on 1 February 2008. On 1 February 1808 the territory north of the Great Berg River, at the foot of the …
PlaceCiskei
… African government declared it a separate administrative territory. In 1972 the status was elevated to self-governing territory. This coincided with stronger…
PlaceJeffrey's Bay
… Umzimkulu River ) which is now an exclave- (a portion of territory of one state completely surrounded by territory of another.) of the Eastern Cape. This is…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… occupation in 1806. After this British seizure of the territory, many of the Dutch settlers (the boers) trekked … eighteenth century the Cape settlers were…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… what is today Turkey. When the Turks conquered this territory, it meant that the Europeans could not travel … from modern northern Ecuador to central Chile…
EventDemocratic Republic of Somali is formed
… with a decision by the United Nations, Italy granted its territory internal autonomy which evolved into independence …
EventWalvis Bay is handed over to Namibia
… (JAA) in November 1992 to administer the 300 square mile territory. The amicable resolution to this territorial …
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
… and Dr. Tjaart van der Walt was appointed as the territory's new administrator. …
EventThe Republic of Goshen is founded
… government to send close to 5000 troops to annex the territory as British Bechuanaland. Today, the Republic of …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… Governor Leutwein, who had been away from the colonial territory to fight Bondelswarts in the south, finally … all Nama lands, apart from Berseba and the…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… people consistently resisted the dispossession of their territory. During the 17th, 18th and most of the 19th century …
EPILOGUE
… sovereign authority is exercised over the whole of its territory; (b) that the Constitution will be the supreme law …
ArticleThe Basotho
… current borders of Lesotho were established. Most of their territory was lost, specifically fertile farming area west of …
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… South Africa, ordered 40 000 South African troops into the territory. Heavily outnumbered, the German forces were forced …
EventThe League of Nations grant Belgium the right to govern Rwanda
… govern Rwanda and its southern neighbour Burundi, as the territory of Ruanda-Urundi. The resolution taken by the …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… South Africa and that both Europeans and Africans in the territory favoured incorporation. Once debate began on the … right of such a segregationist…
EventThe Second Basotho War, known as Siqiti war, breaks out
… and the Boers, who crossed the Orange River into Basotho territory sometime in the 1820s. The second Basotho war, …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… National Congress (ANC) called for a blockade of the territory. The President, Lucas Mangope, wished for …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
… their temporary boundary line. He occupied a stretch of territory south of the Fish River, known as the Zuurveld, and … . Military posts were afterwards…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… who simply from a position of strength declared the territory as the 'Drakenstein', to be a Dutch East India …
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… of Pass laws. Ciskei was declared a self-governing territory in 1972. The Chief Minister of the time was Justice …
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… Assembly was to draw up a new constitution for the territory as a sovereign state. More than 97% of the …
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… immense estates in Rhodesia were left to the people of the territory, to be cultivated for their benefit. He left his …
EventBritish troops establish their camp at Isandlwana
… a standing order of the British army that a camp in enemy territory was to be entrenched on all sides. He also …
ArchiveRudd Concession by King Lobengula of Matabeleland (1888)
… shall have commenced to work mining machinery within my territory; and further, to deliver on the Zambesi River a … made by me of certain mining rights in a…
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… over South-West Africa (SWA) to administer as a mandated territory by the League of Nations. …
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 …
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… WRECK IT WAS CAST IN BRONZE BY BOCARRO IN THE PORTUGUESE TERRITORY OF MACAO, CHINA IN 1640 AND IS ONE OF 10 SALVAGED …
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… crashed. The fact that it chrashed over South African territory raised some questions about the possibilities of …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… colony called German South West Africa. In 1885 Herero territory was absorbed into the colony. As a cattle-based …