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63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… Congress did not sufficiently represent their interests. In their view, trader interests predominated in the Congress. They were disenchanted with the limits…
PlaceEthiopia
… Ethiopia, formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with … , to the North East. The Ethiopian Kingdom…
PlaceUtrecht
… In 1900 British troops occupied Utrecht during South African … headquarters. The British were wary of having to camp in high altitude area where their health…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… has died, aged seventy-nine. Lewin passed away at his home in Killarney, Johannesburg yesterday. Born in Lydenburg in 1939, to English missionary parents,…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… and conditions of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in South Africa 1 by Nelson Mandela Gandhi threatened the … established the first anti-colonial political…
EventNelson Mandela is born
… Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the small village of Mvezo , in the district of Qunu near Umtata , Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape …
PlaceLesotho
… Drakensberg, running North and South, join the main range in the North, forming a plateau from 2,700 to 3,200 metres, in elevation. This plateau is the…
Address by H.E. Ms. Baleka Mbete, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Africa-Indian Ocean (AFI) Region Aviation Conference, Kwazulu-Natal, 24 November 2008
… Ocean Regional Air Navigation Conference taking place in this magnificent province of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. As … here today that includes experts and…
PlaceRepublic of Congo
… of the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea. Upon independence in 1960, the former French region of Middle Congo became the … century of experimentation with Marxism…
EventWorld War II: The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach port
… port. The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success, saved 338,000 Allied … defenders were a poor match for the…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… now entered the Valley. Roodepoort (meaning “red valley” in Afrikaans after the red soil found in this Area) is now a mix of: Residential Suburbs;…
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
… of the Congo (now known as Democratic Republic of Congo). In 1951 Tshombé was elected to the advisory provisional … Belgian-supported Conakat, the strongest…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… and of Water Affairs and Forestry (1994-1999); is born in Stanger, Natal (now Kwa-Dukuza). His resistance against apartheid began in 1952 when he organized a…
Balfour Declaration 1926
… 6 V. ¾ RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES ¾ (a.) Procedure in Relation to Treaties 6 (b.) Representation at … Policy 9 ( d.) Issue of Exequaturs to Foreign…
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… Munnick Hertzog was born into a German immigrant family in 1866. He attended school in Kimberly and Stellenbosch, and completed a Bachelor's degree in…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
… The Dutch Reformed Kerk, Pretoria was established in 1854, when it separated from the Rustenburg congregation. … Bosman Street where a new church building…
What are the challenges that face the South African film industry?
… foreign filmakers.) We need to grasp the fact that we're in the entertainment business, not sociology, and that film …
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… committee members condemned Harriet for her involvement in the protest meeting, and her public criticism of TUCSA. As …
We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
… us to address this august Assembly at this critical moment in the history of our dear continent. The links between the … as a rapidly growing, active and…
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… of 22 German Lutheran mission congregations established in the former Natal and Transvaal. The farm Kroondal, which was in existence since 1843, was…
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… arap Moi was first appointed to one of the African seats in Kenya's Legislative Council in 1955. Moi then won an elected seat on the council in 1957; he and…
PlaceGuinea
… Spanish Guinea and Portuguese Guinea gained independence in that order and subsequently named themselves after the region. French Guinea, became Guinea in 2…
PlaceNigeria
… century, seven independent Hausa city-states were founded in Northern Nigeria. They were, Biram, Daura, Gobir, Kano, Katsina , Rano, and Zaria. In the late…
PlacePosthuys
… buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a lookout post for enemy ships entering … on the Battle of Muizenberg. First…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born in the Eastern Cape in about 1873. It is believed that he received training as a … and was then sent to a…
PlaceChad
… Chad is the fifth largest country in Africa [i] . Chad is estimated to be one of the areas for … greatest Empires such as the Kanem-Borno, which originated…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 7
… for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin In 1942, a strike was called at the Dunlop rubber factory in Durban The Natal Rubber Workers' Union…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… July 1909, was submitted to the Secretary for the Colonies in London at the time that a closer union of the South … fourteen major signatories representing…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… to the graveside. They have even known mass graves. In their march from colonial domination to independence they … has been struck down, as so many…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… republic on 24 October 1964. The victory of Kaunda in the elections signaled an important phase in the struggle against colonial domination in the sub…