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EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… Sekhukhune did not accept British claims over his territory. By March 1878 drums of war were beating again in …
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… void since the State President had acted improperly. The territory in question was formally designated in 1977 with …
EventThe SA government gives limited powers of internal self-government to Damaraland
… of South Africa, ordered South African troops into the territory. Heavily outnumbered, the German forces were forced …
EventThe Comoros declared an Independent State
… overseas colonies, the Comoros became an overseas French territory rather than a French colony which would have cost …
PlaceGeorge Division
… April 1811. Over the next 66 years various portions of its territory were separated to form new divisions at Mossel Bay …
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… will have to act in self-defence if Mozambique makes its territory available to guerrilla forces as a base for …
EventGabon gains independence from France
… second half of the 19th century. The land became a French territory in 1888 and an autonomous republic within the …
EventEgyptian and Israeli forces in fierce fights
… the Sinai desert to the south, the Israelis struck at the territory between two invading Egyptian armies. Deploying a …
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… retained control of Equatorial Guinea until 1778, when the territory was ceded to Spain in exchange for land in South …
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… attempted to present Bophuthatswana as a semi-independent territory, with the same status as the British protectorates …
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… it as confirmation that Britain sought to annex their territory. In response to public outcry, the British Colonial …
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… war, with the chief and his subjects defending their territory. As it became evident that the Bahananwa people …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… for South West Africa. Their task was to administer the Territory and to enter immediately into contact with South …
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… is a historically evolved, stable community of language, territory, economic life and psychological make-up, … Let us consider the Zulus. With their common…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… urged on the Cape Parliament the necessity to annex the territory, but the farmers, lacking the predatory vision of … debate on Bechuanaland: "I look upon…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… law in which one state forcibly acquires another states territory. [14] Kristallnacht - An event where violent, …
PlaceAngra das Voltas, Luderitz Bay- Namibia
… and added to Cape Colony in 1874 as part of the offshore territory known as 'Penguin Islands'. …
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… or to transport arms or personnel through Mozambican territory. Machel went into these negotiations under …
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… and that it should discontinue its administration of the territory. SA rejected the verdict and insisted that South …
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
… for the implementation of UN administration of the territory. The SA government rejected the resolution of the …
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… killed by the South African army and South-West African Territory Force by law had to be handed over to the …
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
… data collection organisation operating in each territory was also established. In 1963, the Federation was …
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… and UNITA forces continued to try to take over as much territory as they could in order to secure political … secured the Caleque and Ruacana dams, 30km…
PlaceValley of a Thousand Hills
… villages. When the Boers and the British were vying for territory, though, there were many bloody battles. Today, the … of the exorbitant price once paid for…
ArticleTswana
… and British officials had seized almost all Tswana territory, dividing it among the Cape Colony, Afrikaner … South Africa and Botswana. Efforts to…
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
… the provisions of the Act, the Union remained British territory, but with home-rule for Afrikaners. Each of the …
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… constituted the majority of the population in the seceded territory. Among the reasons for the succession was that the …
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… an attack on Ethiopia in an attempt to regain Somali territory lost prior to the colonial period. Although the …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… of the 6th Xhosa War. Under D'Urban's leadership, the territory between the Keiskamma and Groot Kei rivers was …
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… structures and hierarchies are retained when a country or territory is occupied while the traditional leader is …