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EventThe Nigerian state of Kano resumes polio vaccination after an eleven
… Dates' (2004) Focus on Africa, October to December, v. 15 no. 4, p. 8 'Nigerian state resumes polio vaccinations: 31 …
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Guinea. In 2009, Mann was released after serving 15 months of the 34 year sentence he received after being …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… model (BEIC), in which this goal could be achieved. On 15 October 1889, Queen Victoria issued such a charter, and …
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
The civil war in Somalia during 1980-1990 resulted in an enormous humanitarian crisis with more than 300 000 people killed and 1.5 million people displaced…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… 1975, eleven African demonstrators were shot dead while 15 were left wounded when Rhodesian police opened fire on a …
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… and SHEPHERD, RHW. 1954. South African Missions, 1800-1950. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. DELAGORGUE, Adulphe. …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… into exile following the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) and the Unlawful Organisations Act (1960) . From … ever mentioning … the myriad of terms used by…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… Document 1 Report of M. Wolberg to Comintern on 15 April 1920 Document 1a. Appendix to no. 1. Report of … Report by D.I. Jones to Comintern, 13 August 1921…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… frenzy of unpremeditated talking' (Brandel-Syrier, 1962: 15, 34-9; Brandel, 1955: 181-2). Insufficient evidence about … self-confident African Christian…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… strike. 1948 Rise of the Nationalist Party to state power. 1950 Introduction of the Suppression of Communism Act. 1952 … statement that non-White workers…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… and effective than their colonial counterparts” (1995, p. 15). This sentiment is similarly expressed by Camagu; “The … and Distribution of Messages. SAADYT…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… 1947 White Springbok team tours Australia and New Zealand 1950 In Elisabethville, Belgian Congo, Katanga defeats the … Pirates crowned PSL champions for the…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
Please note that this information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new…
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
Presumed to be named after the Harbour City, on the West side of the Bay of Algiers, Capital City of Algeria. Algiers is the urban area of Ganyesa, which is a…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with mass action campaigns marked by boycotts, strikes and…
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 45 - Letter from the …
Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 29 November 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
ABSTRACT OF THESES This thesis highlights the ebbs and flows of the Indian minority's struggles against the systematic and unjust segregation of mankind…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… A national work stoppage was organised for 26 June 1950 to protest against the newly-implemented apartheid laws. …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. It was formed in 1944 by members of the ANC who believed…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… simultaneously as ambassador to the United States from 1950 until his election to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) …
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… March 1917 in Durban under the chairmanship of Gordon Lee. 15 The union became very active during 1917 -1918 with a … with Naidoo. Also interview with Raj…
A growing urban African population
… that absorbed the majority of the new arrivals. By 1950, the population of the Western Areas as a whole had …
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… the convention is opened by the Mayor of Bloemfontein. 1950 18 March, The University of the Free State is founded. …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… Parliament . 24 November, Carl Niehaus is sentenced to 15 years in prison and his fiancée, Johanna Lourens, to four … down the release proposal offered by…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… MPLA, Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA, and Holden Roberto’s FNLA on 15 January 1975. A temporary government consisting of leaders … Guinea-Bissau. The four heads of…
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
… to disregard African culture and think it archaic. [15] Women writers should also take advantage of language … Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, (2012) ,Pg…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… to leave her native Latvia in Eastern Europe at the age of 15 for fear that she would be arrested for her socialist … 1823. At the age of 43, Lady Anne…
PlaceKruger National Park
… , Satara and Skukuza (then known as Sabi Bridge ) In the 1950's, the emerging of Scientific researchers began … PLEASE READ UPDATES IN FURTHER READING By…