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Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… was the 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging , which ended the Anglo-Boer War and laid the basis for the adoption of the country’s … values. Officially, colonialism…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… an epidemic of plague swept the Cape Colony during the Anglo-Boer war, the experience with smallpox in the 1890’s was put to …
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… the Great House of Ngqika. During the Seventh Frontier War (1846-47) Sandile was defeated and his territory was put … to rule the territory led to the Eighth…
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… peoples. When it was confronted with this question of the war, it had, in accordance with its avowed policy and … people could be expected to participate in…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… charged with sedition under the Riotous Assemblies Act and War Measure 145. The latter piece of legislation which was … that if the accused pleaded guilty…
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… the younger leaders to join him in what he regarded as a 'war of liberation'. On a cold and drizzling day on 19 May … in the rain with damp powder. The First…
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… proposals to the Boer negotiators after the South African War. Milner announced the proposal as final, and advised the … burghers except for rebels and those…
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… Africa and Cuban-backed Angolan forces, and a 22-year-old war between the Angolan-based guerrillas of the and South African forces. During the First World…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… This is an important contributor to the Republican war effort. 31 May, Johannesburg surrenders to the British … Britain. None ever return to South Africa. 5…
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… German Reichstag (Parliament), condemned the "suppression war" against the Ovaherero in German South West Africa. He demanded the termination of the war and…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… and its chances of long-term success if the Second World War had not cut short its life must necessarily be tentative. … The manner of the country's entry…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… to the rise in tensions and eventual outbreak of war between the settlers and the Khoikhoi was the exclusion … up tensions led to the outbreak of the first…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… in the course of struggle in South Africa in the pre-war period, would have required years of concenÂtrated work … and many other parts of the world after…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… of the Pass Office Trustees wanted. In this very war 5 South Africa is fighting against oppression and for Freedom; a war in which she has committed herself…
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… and mail shipping services, and First and Second World War shipping. Coastal vessels connected to fishing, whaling, …
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… of the Radicals in the Transvaal Formation of the NIA War Issue Convulsions in Natal - The Resuscitation of the NIC …
EventFormer Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is born
… victory against Israel during the Ramadan or Yom Kippur War. The war was a political success for Sadat, bolstering his … Islamists. Four years (1977) after…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Africa and other militants, the conference discusses the war and how African people could render support for the war effort of the British and the Union…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… camps. These are not the casualty figures for a major war; they are the price already paid by black miners for … of the times, and the internal politics of…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… rule. He was correct, and his actions resulted in a global war between the major powers of the European continent. These … deadliest conflicts in history,…
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… military exploits in north Africa during the Second World War. He was born in Heidenheim, Wurttemberg, on Nov. 15, … years later was commissioned a 2d…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… Van Den Bergh claimed that those were all part of the Cold War and had been carefully planned. This claim was made on … that it was being used by Moscow to…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… of President Kruger. Thus the outbreak of the second war of independence, the South African War, placed him in a difficult position. After discussion … he…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… programme of the regime. This led to a virtual civil war between his Zulu loyalist supporters and ANC members in …
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… Arms, handing over all Guns, Rifles, and Munitions of War, in their possession or under their control, and desist … TRANSVAAL and ORANGE RIVER COLONY, and…
ArchiveFederation
… Arms, handing over all Guns, Rifles, and Munitions of War, in their possession or under their control, and desist … transvaal and orange river colony, and…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… desperate situation that President Botha had to fly to the war zone when the operational command of the SADF broke down. … the defeat “a crushing humiliation…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men were shipped … have travelled so far over the sea to help…
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… of Nations which was founded just after the end of World War I. The League of Nations was put in place to ensure that war is avoided at all costs globally…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Henrique Cardoso of Brazil Pretoria, 26 November 1996
… wanted to, not like now. It was about the beginning of the war, 1939 or thereabouts when I got to Port Elizabeth, and … There was a lot of work around that…