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EventNegotiations between SA, Cuba and Angola start in London
… in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan war and independence for Namibia. These negotiations heralded the end of foreign intervention in…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… Kaggia joined the Kenyan army when the Second World War broke out and was deployed in London as a company quarter-sergeant at a war office meant to…
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… Post the Fourth Frontier War 1811-1812, the Cape Governor, Sir Charles Somerset, made … the 'prophet' Makana, which led to a renewal of the civil war between…
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… river. The Ncome Museum, its design inspired by the Zulu war horn formation, offers a re-interpretation of the 1838 … of history and museums is to convey to…
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… The League of Nations, the world body formed after World War 1 in 1919, afforded South Africa a mandate to govern … the new international body which was…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… Aids made the jump from animals to people by 1940 during a war in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau . A plasma …
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… During the anti-fascist struggle and the Second World War, the PCA remained close to the French Communist Party. … communists participated fully in the…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… in the Suburb of Claremont. The 1914-1918 Commonwealth War Grave is in the Cemetery itself, and the 1939-1945 Commonwealth War Grave (ashes buried marked by…
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. Having installed its Secretariat in the Palais Wilson, … in 1936, three years before the…
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
… letter to St John Rodrick asking for reasons for the War Department's refusal to include her in the Ladies … built for Boer women and children during the…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… Lusaka Protocol, which ended the long and ravaging civil war in Angola, was brokered by the United Nations (UN). … of Savimbi in battle in 2002. Since the…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… Soviet Russia as the workers' 'fatherland', to the class war prisoners of the world and to the workers of Rhodesia and … a rapid ripening would result under…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… city states and Omani Arabs. 1505 The Portuguese wage war against cities on the East Coast in their attempt to … Nairobi becomes the official capital of…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… independent at Paardekraal. 1881 Battle of Majuba; the war ends with the restoration of the Transvaal Republic under … Girls School) building. 1899 Outbreak…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… from the defeat by British settlers in the South African War 1899-1902. Discussions about a new flag were taking place … to interruptions caused by such…
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… Tripoli, later occupying the Libyan capital in this World War Two battle. This was part of a series of battles that … of Tripoli, Germany was deeply involved…
EventThe French Foreign Legion is founded
… the First and Second World Wars, as well as in the Crimean War, the Franco-Austrian War and in Mexico. …
EventThe Afrikaner Broederbond is formed
… for severe acts of sabotage in South Africa during World War II, in protest against Jan Smuts' United Party government and its support for the British during…
PlaceVrede
… Year of the Great Trek. There is also the First World War Cannon that may be seen in the Town. This Cannon marks the role played by the soldiers during this…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… trading stations to trade in cotton. When there was war or famine in the Coromandel region the slave trade would boom as prisoners of war or excess family…
From retirement to parliament
… peoples to the four freedoms by having taken part in this war which can be converted into a war for human freedom if the settlement at the Peace Table is ……
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… of the SS Mendi that occurred during the First World War, on 21 February 1917. It pays tribute to the South … for their dignity and human rights through…
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
… the Kabaka objected, he was forced into exile. The Cold War and the Arab-Israeli War Obote’s Achilles heel was his reliance on the military … West looked…
African History Books
table { border: none; border-collapse: collapse; } td { border: none; border-color: red; } During the month of May we celebrate Africa…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… The Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World War II The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), also … Due to the experience and effects of…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… accept the consequences of its actions. We have declared war on apartheid. The regime has declared war on all opponents of apartheid. But we declared war…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… accept the consequences of its actions. We have declared war on apartheid. The regime has declared war on all opponents of apartheid. But we declared war…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… Let me tell you?—?the Japanese do not remember. The war, hundreds of thousands of civilian killings during the … about facts concerning, let us say, the…