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EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
… to comply faced death. His Autocratic rule soon fuelled a rebellion, and he was dethroned and replaced, first with his …
PlaceNewcastle
… battle sites just outside of town, which include: Laing's Nek , Amajuba (which also offers braai and picnic facilities) … battle sites just outside of town,…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… tax) uprising that was popularly known as the Bambatha rebellion became chief of the AmaZondi people. Bhambatha …
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… the South West Africa campaign and the South African Rebellion. He was responsible for the infamous Native Land …
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
… Centre vividly exhibits the stark realities of evictions, rebellion, riots and suppression. A focus on the ‘Durban …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… under colonial rule and on 11 January 1904 they rose in rebellion. …
EventJameson Raid starts
… were heading for Johannesburg in an effort to facilitate a rebellion by Uitlanders - a cosmopolitan group of foreigners …
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… in a clash on the Bushman's River Pass. Deemed to be in rebellion, the Hlubi chief was captured and sent to …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… on the Island. In the aftermath of the 1976 student rebellion , Tambo had to rethink ways of effectively managing …
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… population into a system of wage labour and pacifying rebellion. Sir Harry was also well known for making grand …
PlaceForts Around Pretoria
… and three guns on the North rampart facing Horns Nek and the road from Rustenburg . 'It was like a warship …
PlaceReitz
… of farmers joined the pro-German insurgents of the Rebellion. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… the expense of personal freedom. [17] Intifada - This is a rebellion. It was specifically the uprising of Palestinians …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… 1922 (Rand Revolt) and May 1922 (Bondelswarts/Bondelzwarts rebellion) made him unpopular, while his pro-British approach …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… Khoi - San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what … 1815 Cape Colony: The colonial army crushes the…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… casualties on the spot where General Colley fell. Laigns Nek: Boers under Gen Piet Joubert inflicted the first of …
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… played a leading role in the suppression of the Slachter's Nek Rebellion . However, the benefits of a military economy did …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… fought from 1914 to1918 and had to deal with the Rand Rebellion in 1922. The Rebellion was the result of severe labour unrest that had …
PlaceRehoboth
… by South Africa, in 1915 and 10 years later a second rebellion broke out at Rehoboth. This revolt collapsed, …
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… deportation to Britain, and the leaders of the armed rebellion against the Union Government in 1914-15, including …
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… invade German South West Africa, pro-German Boers raised a rebellion against British authority. This was not fully …
EventA German gunboat, the Panther, reaches Morocco, increasing tensions between European powers
… powers in the period before World War I. In 1911, a rebellion broke out in Morocco against the Sultan, …
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… Hermanus as anti-pass demonstrations spread. As an act of rebellion the passes were set alight, as seen in the picture. …
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… in the war would be strictly voluntary. [49] The 1914 Rebellion, which occurred after South Africa entered the …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… Proclamation that frees "all slaves in areas still in rebellion." 1865: The Civil War ends. The 13th Amendment, … surveillance of black activists abroad. Los…
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… in the Lower Thukela River area until July, but the rebellion was effectively crushed. Over the next six months 5 …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… seizure of their land. This is their last organised rebellion. After it is suppressed, the defeated Khoi-Khoi are … first post office begins. 1799 The second…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Ming Dynasty
… Various rebel groups began to assemble and prepare for a rebellion. Zhu Yuanzhang was one of the main leaders of these … down the monastery in an attempt to…
PlaceNgcobo
… place next to a stream". In 1879 the amaQwathi rose in rebellion and, during the ensuing hostilities, both the …
PlaceColigny, North West Province
… Even though blood also flowed in this Town during the 1914 Rebellion , there seems to be little evidence of it. The Silo …