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… British control in the wake of the end of the Second World War. Nkrumah,while initially critical of the movement, used … stepping stone towards the establishment of the first national university, the later known University of … conference hosted in Indonesia and is considered the first wide scale Afro-Asian conference of its kind. Forged in …

… Kokoschka. He remained in Europe for the next two years, first in Munich and then in Salzburg where he studied under … returned to Cape Town in the late 1950’s and held his first solo exhibition at the Argus gallery in 1959. One of … that photography cannot do. It makes the horrors of war universal, finds in maimed limbs and howling mouths a …

… a rail trip to Pretoria, Transvaal, a journey which first took Gandhi to Pietermaritzburg, Natal. There, Gandhi was seated in the first-class compartment, as he had purchased a first-class … in Natal. In 1899 the Second Anglo-Boer (South African War) war broke out. Though Gandhi’s sympathies were with the …

… remission or parole. On 25 July 1988, David Bruce was the first military conscientious objector, in South Africa, to be … a pension clerk, served in the British air force in World War II. His mother was a pre-war refugee from Nazi Germany. In Bruce’s words: “My mother …

… towards the Afrikaner nation after the South African War. The Verwoerd family settled in Wynberg, Cape Town for … back to South Africa, he took the matric exam and came first in the Free State and fifth in South Africa. After his … drew him into politics and in 1936 he was offered the first editorship of ‘Die Transvaler’ , a position which he …

… Mina and Joyce. It seems they were all given Christian first names, while Josiah was given his father’s middle-name, … ‘tumultuous almost no-win politics of a ravaged post-civil-war Zululand’. It is likely that Gumede was committed to the … prospects appeared to improve. In 1898 and 1899, the first two of Josiah and Margareth’s five daughters, Edith …

… Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children.  He came to South Africa when he … MPs.  As a Member of Parliament, Van Eck was one of the first sitting MPs to join the ANC after the organisation was … Lakes region to find a solution to the Tutsi-Hutu civil war that had for years wrecked that country's political and …

… with ropes. They had been rescued by the British Men-of-War. Their rescuers were kind to them, and in June, 1882, … bishops of many lands had been consecrated, but was the first time that an African was to be made bishop in … Sir Henry Leeke - and Mrs. Weeks, who taught him his first lessons at school in West Africa. The service was never …

… leaflets at street corners for the League.  During World War II, he was involved in the anti-war campaign of the Non-European United Front. In the 1940s, Kathrada first met  African National Congress (ANC)  leaders, Walter … Mrs Cissie Gool , M.D. Naidoo and others. This was his first jail sentence for civil disobedience.Kathrada was a …

… the north of Scotland shortly before the outbreak of World War One. The Cormack family moved around the country a fair … axial tomography or CAT-scanning today. On his first sabbatical he decided to visit his wife's home country … Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, and his colleagues built the first CAT-scan machine in 1972. They put Cormack's theory …

… Social Anthropology and African Administration under its first head of department, Agnes Winifred Hoernlé, who was one … Eileen and Jack Krige. In 1940 Ellen Hellmann became the first woman to obtain a D.Phil. degree at the University of … study of the process of proletarianisation and the inter-war conditions of urban African life, bears the strong …

… at this time. At the age of fourteen she attended her first Party meeting, but as her father encouraged her to … was not very strong. At the end of the 1930s, with  World War II  starting in Europe, militancy and awareness was …

… an air mechanic and information officer during the World War Two.After his return he served as assistant national … of the SACP held in 1998, he and Billy Nair were the first recipients of the Moses Kotane award. Bunting passed …

… was born on 17 December 1937. A White South African, her first encounter with police came in 1956 when she adopted a … and by 1966 in The Hague, she was in contact with the first Anti-Apartheid movement in the Netherlands from the … name a few. Also during her time in New Zealand, the Rugby war broke out. Should the Springboks visit New Zealand or …

… (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home and settled with his parents first in Bavaria and later in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he … in Jail. (Poems: banned). Scribe Press (1979) The Civil War Cantos. (Poems: banned) Scribe Press (1987) Poems 1964 …

… with a BA LLB in 1931, six months before his twenty-first birthday, resulting in his having to wait before he … He was a founder member of the League against Fascism and War and campaigned actively against the right wing Francisco … Court of Parliament overturned the decision of the AD (the first Harris decision) and held that the entrenched sections …

… He then left to further his studies in law in England, first at Balliol College, Oxford, then at Inner Temple, … name was changed to Botswana, and Seretse Khama became its first President. The country inherited by President Khama was … civil strife in Africa, but Botswana remained free from war and corruption. In his last years he played an important …

… contributed much toward Shaka's later accomplishments in war. Militarism was thereafter to be a way of life for him, … the Ndwandwe Zwide decided to smash his new rival. After a first expedition had been defeated by the superior control … of royal appointments and favours. KwaBulawayo. Shaka's first capital was on the banks of the Mhodi, a small …

… father, Gus, founded the Ackermans chain after the First World War with two army buddies . Raymond Ackerman re-invented his … expand the business faster than he might have preferred, first in Port Elizabeth and then in Johannesburg. By the turn …

… of Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT), as a first-year medical student. Two years later, he enlisted … in North Africa and Italy as a lance corporal. After the war, he resumed his medical studies and qualified with a … Rosenberg in 1949 and they had two sons. She was the first social worker in the Students' Health and Welfare …

… States of America drew up the Atlantic Charter as a post war peace and security charter. The Atlantic Charter … and slum conditions caused by overcrowding in Orlando, the first township of Soweto. By October 1946, the ADP was facing …

… was among the oldest missions in the Transkei. His first-year marks were high enough for his admission to the … work on the Institute’s farm and made plans to spend his first year at Tuskegee studying agriculture. It was a … colleagues agreed that African participation in the World War II war effort could be used as a rallying cry for equal …

… KwaZulu-Natal. Following the outbreak of the Second World War , she joined the South African army as a truck driver, … all over the country in a recruiting convoy. When the war ended, she underwent psychoanalysis at Anna Freud’s … their cause. After dedicating her life to fighting racism first in South Africa then later in Canada, Audrey ‘Bobbie’ …

… Makhanda, but in 1827 conducted thorough research on the war-doctor and produced it in ‘New Monthly Magazine’ and … environment he lived in. Between 1781 and 1819, the first five frontier wars were fought over the Zuurveld (where … the King. [47] So began the struggle over that land. The first two frontier wars occurred when the Dutch East Indian …

… League of Nations in 1923 and by travelling to Europe, a first for an Ethiopian ruler in 1924. The empress showed less … continue fighting the Italians by waging guerrilla war. During the war, he remained in exiled and banded his country together to …

… her husband’s tragic death at the end of the Second World War. Monica and her husband Godfrey did fieldwork together in … at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. Monica took up her first university post at Fort Hare in 1946 and two years later she took up a position at Rhodes, the first woman to be appointed as a full professor at a South …

… In 1964 he returned to Mozambique and led FRELIMO's first guerrilla attack against the Portuguese in northern … and chief of the Frelimo army. He believed in a guerilla war and Frelimo's army established itself among the poor in … on June 25, 1975. Machel became independent Mozambique's first president and was affectionately referred to as …

… rusty bath. Being unable to speak English or Afrikaans at first, he had strong memories of being taunted on the … 15 Squadron, nicknamed the “Aegean Pirates”. During his first posting to Cairo, Egypt he adopted the name Harry … Europe, Schwarz flew in Baltimore aircraft. Throughout the war, his Squadron was stationed in Libya, Egypt, Italy, Malta …

… Lovedale and St Matthew's College Male Voice Choir at the first Missionary Conference in Cape Town. Upon Zibi's … that required of him to have married and fathered his first child). He was formally installed as chief in the same year. In 1915, during the First World War (1914-1918), he recruited 60 men from among his followers …

… godfather was General Louis Botha , who became the first Prime Minister of the new Union of South Africa in … career was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War , in which he served with the South African forces in … by the Germans at Tobruk, and spent the rest of the war, apart from a few days of freedom following an escape, in …