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ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… throughout Africa following the end of the Second World War was a crucial factor in achieving independence for many … unity. Background Following the end of…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… throughout Africa following the end of the Second World War was a crucial factor in achieving independence for many … unity. Background Following the end of…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… two east African countries started long before the Ogaden War. In 1976, Ethiopia distributed a 39 page memorandum titled “War Clouds in the Horn of Africa”…
ArticleThe New Group
… outside the country. By the end of the Second World War the New Group, like many other collaborations of its …
ArchiveWe Call For An End To Conscription
… the illegal occupation of Namibia and to wage unjust war against foreign countries... We believe that the financial cost of the war increases the poverty of…
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I. The day is observed world-wide, though under various … why 11 November was chosen in 1919 as the day…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Military Service in Western Europe during the First World War and was awarded the Croix de Recompense for distinguished … of distinguished and exceptional…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… On this date is also commemorated the anti-colonial war against Germany in the figure of Samuel Maharero. A Chief who fled to Botswana during the war and…
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… Mengistu Haile Mariam.Zinawi waged a successful rebel war against the forces of Mengistu and his appointment marked the end of years of civil war in the…
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
… continued to resist the Italians, waging a guerrilla war to undermine and destabilise the process of colonisation. At the height of World War II in 1943,…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… Place', or just Baragwanath. The Second World War brought many changes. As the five years of worldwide … had to change rapidly from appeasement politics to…
PlaceChad
… [v] . Post-colonial Chad was marred by both a small scale war with Libya and a protracted internal conflict from 1966 … [lxxxi] . In 1939 Chad contributed…
PlaceZonderwater
… one another! The Prison was once the largest prisoner of war camps by the Allies! Zonderwater was set up in 1941, during World War II, specifically for…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
… the recruitment process for troops to assist in World War 1 was not heavily impacted. On the 23rd of March the 1st … volunteered, that you might have to…
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… Africa to Europe for any service in connection with the war or otherwise.” This motion was against the backdrop of … Native Labour Contingent to assist…
The National Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein is celebrating its 100-year existence this year
… Book stalls, Boere-orkes marathon 09:00 – Tug-of-war competition kick-off 10:00 – 10:30 - Boer War re-enactment at the fort 13:00 – Launch of Ideas 100 and …
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… The Boers took on the might of the British Empire in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. The valour of the Boer bittereinders in the last two years of the war…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
… Mr. Creswell's "see it through" policy in regard to the war." Ever since the beginning of the war the Party had been working on a basis adopted last … of…
PlaceElaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal
… attractions but because a major battle of the Second Boer War took place here. In fact, it was one of the few victories … during their three column attack in…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… alarm at its launch of nuclear missiles in 1962. Nuclear war was avoided as Cuba agreed to dismantle the missiles, but … and the United States during the…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… and the Afrikaners. On the grounds are the Dellville Wood War Memorials, which pay tribute to South African troops who died during the First World War. The…
PlaceWaverly Road Memorial, Durban South
… The South African War Memorial was unveiled on May 24, 1910, at 360 University … in memory of those who lost their lives in the Boer War . It was designed by…
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… between the British and the Boers and the First World War; and with the Second World War the Afrikaner stood up against British imperialism With …
EventMogadishu seaport is handed over to the combined task force by UN
… attempts by UNO and OAU, to curb a prolonged civil war that broke out in 1991. The civil war erupted after the downfall of President Siad Barre. It …
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to end the civil war. Hammerskjöld became involved in attempts to solve the civil war in the Congo after an appeal…
EventLord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria
… In May 1900, at the height of the South African War (1899-1902), Field Marshall Lord Roberts and his forces … surrender and accept the British terms for an…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… Document 55 Circular Letter - Invitation to a Meeting of Anglo-American Secretariat, 27 December 1935 Document 56 Report of M. Kotane to Anglo-American…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… new political and cultural associations. In Cape Town, the war rhetoric politicised some sections of the coloured community in Cape Town, the war was fought…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… laws, issuing currency, negotiating treaties, waging war and administering justice. These were the most important … and rivalry among the colonial powers…