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ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… of the Council of Non-European Trade Unions. World War II In 1941 African workers continued to maximise their … by the South African government or the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… north, the greater the danger from the weakness of the Boer States. The "Free State" could for the time being be … to annex the Transvaal in order to "avert…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… As there were renewed attempts after the First World War to harass Indians, he was active in mobilising the people …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… in the country. On the way Motloung got into a tug-of-war with an off-duty policeman. He managed to get away, but …
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… increased sharply after the end of the First World War, as the British government undertook a scheme to settle … (KAU), formed in 1942. After the end of the…
ArticleBalfour Declaration
… a dominion could no longer be forced to participate in a war on the side of Britain) Loyalty to crown was expected …
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… control, recolonised the territory during its war with France in the early 19th century. British capital … the late 19th century. After vanquishing the Boers…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… Africans have died as a result of AIDS. [lxxxix] The war against HIV/Aids and malaria have been met with … of South Africa, p. 10. ↵ [xxxi] UNGA Disarmament…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… his plan to bring a delegation of businessmen, including Anglo American head Gavin Relly, to Zambia. But soon after, … Relly returned to SA amid criticism…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… livelihoods through granting them more land. 1939-45 World War Two occurs. Africans comprise a significant portion of the war effort. As a result of more…
ArticleKhoisan herder society in the Later Stone Age
… caused them to steal the Khoikhoi's herds, which sparked a war that lasted for hundreds of years. Source: … Khoikhoi's animals for food. This situation…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… of the atrocities against the Jews during the Second World War, there is no evil that has been as condemned by the … of apartheid be punished? At the end of…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate Library
… several changes over the years but was restored by Anglo-American, a global mining company, in 1987. The book …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… in Sophiatown’s population in the decade straddling World War II, 1936 to 1945 is attributed to the war and subsequent relaxation of influx control…
PlaceOutcrop of Main Reef Group of Conglomerates, Johannesburg
… of hunters, including Stephanus Erasmus, the well-known Boer hunter. Unfortunately for the party, while on this trip, … gold, while all the time relying on…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Glossary
… of Russia designed to give them a voice in the government. War Communism : Economic policies applied by the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war such as…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… from police harassment and grinding poverty. The inter-war years signaled the dawn of a new era in South African … number of Africans migrating to cities to…
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… the 1960s to 1990? Background and focus The Second World War had been fought to attain democracy but it did not deliver lasting peace or a better society…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… spy tells the Pretoria High Court. Smit, the "shadow Boer" who claimes he had infiltrated the Boeremag's inner … Johan and Kobus Pretorius to be declared…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… skirmishes and attacks goes down in history as the First War of Dispossession, or the First Frontier War, between the AmaXhosa and Dutch colonists. It is the…
EventThe reburial of Flora
… would be since the owners of the Vergelegen Wine Estate, Anglo-American Farms had arranged to put many of the elderly, …
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… in the distance. “The thunder symbolised a catastrophic war on earth which was going to destroy all sinners. Only … as they cannot condone the preaching of…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… developed into a paramilitary strikeforce. When World War II was declared, Afrikaner nationalists campaigned … due to ill health at the end of 1940…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… down under Union, South Africa was fighting in the Great War. After the conquest of both German South West and East … General Smuts proceeded to London to…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… persisted to the present day. The end of the South African war resulted in renewed economic activity, and in the … areas, there was a marked decrease in…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… the "defiantly African" IWA was absorbed into the ICU. The war had ended in November 1918 and returning soldiers, … ideology in the Transvaal in the period…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… it through its period of activity, were drawn from the pre-war Trotskyist groupings. They tried to conceal their Marxist … finance capitalism, warned of an…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… their beginning and by the outbreak of the South African War of 1899–1902 at their end, at the heart of those years …
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… the colonial government limited the activities of the Boer commandos, and refused to let them handle the law and …
PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… at 8,849, of whom 3,865 were literate. On 25 August 1901 Boer forces under Commandant Gideon Scheepers were sighted …