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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… country illegally (mostly at the time of the South African War) condoned and issued with condonation certificates. … entered the country illegally (mostly at…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… Jacob (Job) Masego, World War 2 (WW2) veteran, who sunk a German supply boat, died in … 722 South Africans who were taken to a German prisoner-of-war camp…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… which was located deep within Soviet-occupied post-World War II Germany. This event was one of the first international crises to occur during the Cold War,…
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
… fear of antagonising the public against involvement in a war that was not theirs at all. South African President P.W. … paid a visit to the area where many…
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… Army during the latter part of the 1966-1988 border war. Several hundred Plan cadres were killed in the first … SADF, in what became popularly known as the…
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… was a charismatic leader. He desperately tried to avoid war between the Transvaal Republic and Britain. During … without endangering the independence of the…
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
… The civil war in Somalia during 1980-1990 resulted in an enormous … people killed and 1.5 million people displaced. This civil war directly resulted in a…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… and looting during the frontier wars, and during World War II was renamed 'The Pig & Whistle' by servicemen from the … fleeing to the Wesleyan chapel during…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… while still in France. At this point, the Algerian War of Independence had been well under way for four years. Ahmed fought as a freedom fighter in the war…
4. Conclusion
… to shifting Soviet positions. 113 At the outset of World War II, the CPSA endorsed the Soviet Union's non-aggression … pact with Germany and took the line…
Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… of the Cape Corps, c. 1919 1 At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Dr. Abdurahman and the A. P.O. supported the government in going to war against Germany,…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… involvement of the South African racists in the Rhodesian war of liberation, the armed struggle in that country grew … including, as we were told before the…
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… like the French Revolution, and sometimes leads to civil war. There are however political revolutions that are …
EventJapanese submarines attack naval base in Madagascar
… Indian Ocean. Fortunately Japan decided to direct their war effort toward the Pacific Ocean and put pressure on … in the Indian Ocean, the outcome of the…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… depression that contributed to the outbreak of civil war. The civil war pitted two rebel groups, the Somali Patriotic Movement …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… great that in certain regions it was compared to a civil war. This state, among others, forced the Apartheid … the bargaining table, as the only outcome of…
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… first Comrades Marathon was run by Vic Clapham, ex World War One veteran and other 34 runners, who initiated it as a … Clapham wanted to remember those who…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… rule had suffered serious setbacks, and the South-African War, otherwise known as the Anglo-Boer War, was to begin. The few Africans who had received western…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army'
… of the Territory in 1843, had been wary of provoking a war with the Zulu Kingdom. But with changed circumstances in … and Tugela Rivers and installed as a …
ArticleZulu
… The Zulu never regained their independence ( see Anglo-Zulu Wars ). Natal received "Colonial government" in …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
… the period of "peace" differed little from that of open war. The viewpoint of the frontiersmen was remarkably … sympathetic to that of the military and the…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Police vehicle in Mamelodi and the latter went off at an Anglo American building in Johannesburg, causing extensive … of community organisations. This…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… Police vehicle in Mamelodi and the latter went off at an Anglo American building in Johannesburg, causing extensive … of community organisations. This…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… th the S.A. Labour Party', pamphlet published by the War on War League (SA) in March 1915. Document 2: 'Pamphlet 'The Labour Party's Duty in the War, a…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… of those that had supported him. In 1989, the first civil war of Liberia broke out, with the rebel group being led by … soon sparked more conflict and the…
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… charge of the Voice of Nigeria. During the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70) Achebe was in the Biafran government service, … internal conflict (see Nigeria,…
America, Spanish conquest
… This blood was supplied by victims were captured during war. The Aztecs therefore went to war continuously. Those who were defeated and incorporated … Peru,…
EventUnited Party MP for Benoni, D.G. Ross, dies in England after a long illness
… the greater part of his life. During the Second World War Ross served as an Officer in the Third Transvaal Scottish Regiment. After the war he devoted…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… amaXhosa to expand through integrating those they went to war with and defeated or those they allied with, so it is not … were coveting for occupation. [29]…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… as widespread as has been popularly represented. The ZAR war against the Ndzundza Ndebele The leadership of Nyabele … in the Waterberg in 1860 and the four…