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Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… ANC leaders met a group of whites in Lusaka, led by Anglo-American chairman Gavin Relly. Their message to the ANC …
PlaceAnzac, a Railway Siding near Brakpan
… troops who landed at Anzac Cove in Turkey, in World War 1. This day is remembered for all the servicemen and …
ArchiveAn address by the General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party
… by the government that the country is engaged in a 'Total War'. Outlines the history of the SACP, the Party's programme …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
… online origin, see footnote [7] 5. How did the American war of Independence and American Revolution (1765-1783) … the French Revolution? (4 x 1 marks) The…
ArchiveConscripts to their age: African National Congress operational strategy, 1976-1986 by Howard Barrell
… Desirable Accidents Chapter 7 - Planning for people's war CHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity …
PlaceCommittees Drift, Eastern Cape
… outpost established by the British during the frontier war of 1819. The name "committees" is pronounced by locals as …
EventLord Baden-Powell’s sister, Agnes, establishes the Girl Guides Movement
… that was founded by Baden-Powell during the South African War of 1899-1902. During the war Baden-Powell, a British officer enlisted boys to act as …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of 'Cape Coloured men', called the Cape Corps, is established
… Africa in 1916 to fight on the side of the Allies in World War One. The corps was made up of coloured members of the … More than 12 000 South African…
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… the racially motivated Afrikaner republics lost the Boer War but won the peace through the machinations of …
ArchiveBackground to the 20th anniversary of Republic Day, 31st May 1981
… legislation, labour unrest, school boycotts, civil war, and the rights of citizenship. …
PlaceHorse Memorial, junction of Cape and Russell Roads, Port Elizabeth
… the horses that suffered and died during the South African War of 1899-1902. It was declared a National Monument under …
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… William Newnham , a teacher and cleric'. Lucas was Anglo-Irish, the son of an Under Secretary for Ireland , and …
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… Sandile, injured in a skirmish, which led to the Frontier War of 1835. Some authorities argue that the name predates … up after some of the Khoekhoe joined…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… the view of the majority of Afrikaners by joining World War II. During the war, inspired by the Native Representative Council, the …
PlaceAkasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants
… Wingfield, along with some depots from a run down World War II-era site near Goodwood-Cape Town …
President Jacob Zuma arrived in Tanzania
… peace and stability to Burundi following the civil war in that country. …
EventThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is founded.
… Treaty Organisation was formed at the end of World War II. European countries needed insurance and security …
EventGamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of Egypt
… which the British, French, and Israeli government declared war on Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal. …
EventIFP makes election threat
… Mangosuthu Buthelezi cautioned that a liberation war was imminent if elections proceeded without him. …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… between 1673 and 1677. This was the second Khoi-Khoi Dutch War which sprout out of the colonisation process at the Cape. …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… by the need for economic development. From civil war to democracy Buthelezi personified both black nationalism … first democratic elections of 1994. At the…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… between people at village level. As in 16th century war-torn Europe, the balance of power between political … South Carolina, in 1739. England at this time…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… form of recognition. In 1942, the government introduced War Measure No 145, making strikes by Africans illegal, and … criticisms levelled against mining…
PlaceHermanus
… Houses, slowly changed into Hotels. Before the 2nd World War there was a well established International Tourist Trade, … off the Mail Ships, in Cape Town's…
A celebration of 70 years of ‘African Claims’ - ANC by Zizi Kodwa, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… moment to remember the role of African soldiers in world war 2 (WW2). While we together with the world celebrate … peoples to the four freedoms by having…
Event300,000 refugees in camps near the Nigerian border are facing starvation
… government. This is after the outbreak of the Biafra War on 6 July 1967, when the easterners tried to force the … 9 October 2013)| Atofarati A A. The…
PlaceRepublic of Congo
… elected government installed in 1992. A brief civil war in 1997 restored former Marxist President Denis … potential is hampered by the current ongoing civil…
41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee, 1906
… population of over 12,000 British Indians. Before war, the adult Indian population was 15,000. The first Indian … representations, which continued up to the…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… 19th century South African History. The first frontier war broke out in 1780 and marked the beginning of the Xhosa … Africa by the British military during…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… industries in the decade and half immediately after World War II as a factor in the explanation of the Sharpeville … rapid growth in the immediate aftermath…