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ArchiveRenewed fighting in April
… the most intense fighting in the history of the border war raged along the 300 km frontier . According to official …
PlaceNational Women’s Monument
… children who died in prison camps during the South African War . This monument, is the first in the world dedicated to … honors women and children who died…
EventEmperor Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia dies
… black African King to engage in slavery of white European war captives held as slaves inside Ethiopia. After defeating …
EventRobert Mugabe returns to Rhodesia after being in exile for five years
… in Mozambique and had managed to spearhead a guerrilla war against the Salisbury (now Harare) government. A cheering …
EventUN approves embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea
… following the latest flare-up in their two-year border war. The embargo could be immediately terminated if a …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Glossary
… E. (January 30, 2003). "Compensation from before World War I through the Great Depression" . United States Bureau …
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… seemed so promising before and during the Second World War? The Early Beginnings The Trotskyist groups in South … anti-Fascism, an unconditional support for…
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… Schweizer-Reneke, is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. The Town has a History, steeped … the Harts…
Chapter 6
… of political consciousness in the people. The second World War inevitably had its repercussions in South Africa and by … of the general ferment throughout…
EventSouth Sudan is declared an independent state
… After five decades of unrest and civil war, South Sudan was granted independence on 9 July 2011 with …
EventMovie director Henry Cornelius dies
… where he produced several films for General Smuts's pro-war propaganda campaign. Cornelius also made several feature …
EventControl of communication bureau is placed under Foreign Affairs
… to buy international and local newspapers in a propaganda war. …
EventSA Journalist James Gray is born
… Despatch and was wounded three times in the First World War before joining the parliamentary staff of The Times. He …
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… Congress (ANC) meet and pass a resolution regarding World War II. They sympathise with the British Commonwealth and … give full recognition to the Africans…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… written in pigeon English Sozaboy, about the Biafran war. Saro Wiwa was arrested and eventually executed for his … peace to a country that was bankrupt and…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… It was used for military purposes during the Second World War. From 1961 to 1991 it was used as a maximum security … Castle. (1) What was Robben Island used…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… and civic unrest that erupted in the aftermath of World War II. Consequently, throughout the 1950s unrest in African, … were moving away from racist policies…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… Hertzog and Smuts differed violently on joining the war. Hertzog reunited with Malan in the Nationalist Party … 1 September, Germany invades Poland and the…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… of the Dutch colony at the Cape during the Napoleonic War. 1834 Britain prohibited the possession of slaves. In the … the ANC in later years. 1899-1902 The…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… including trans-Atlantic slavery, colonialism, the Biafran war, military coups and counter-coups that rocked the … away from Nigeria. This resulted in the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.4 Jul-Sept 1960
… At Last Sierra Leone, Dr. Edward W. Blyden. The Algerian War, Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Tunis Diary, Catherine Hoskyns. A …
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… called for the MK operatives to be treated as prisoners of war under the protection of the Geneva Convention. A few …
PlacePolokwane Art Museum
… were confiscated and destroyed at the end of the Makgoba War in 1893, is also on display in the library gardens. The …
EventFlorence Nightingale opens the first school for nurses at the St. Thomas hospital in London
… career. Nightingale gained popularity during the Crimean war where she cared for wounded soldiers. In 1860 she …
EventFirst victim of the land invasions in Zimbabwe, David Stevens, is murdered
… in the on-going land confrontations involving so-called "war veterans" backed by President Robert Mugabe's ruling … 2014]|Beeston, R. & Dynes, M., Zimbabwe…
EventThe ANC leader in the KwaZulu Natal midlands, Sifiso Nkabinde, is expelled from the ANC
… units. He was also accused of starting a low-level war that left 120 people in the Richmond area dead. In …
EventThe force of the Union of South Africa enters Windhoek, capital of South West Africa.
… After the outbreak of World War I, there was immediate fighting in different parts of the … Asia and their Deployment in Europe during the First World War ,…
PlaceKuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… the new Harbour had to be abandoned. During the frontier war of 1846-47 , better known as the War of the Axe, the British made use of Waterloo Bay , … German…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… today northern Angola. The Kongo became powerful through war and capturing and enslaving the people they defeated. The … The result of this was that the…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… community, and became a vocal supporter of the British war effort when the Second World War broke out. Although having friends connected to the …