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EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… colonial rule. The three major movements fighting the war, the Movimiento Popular de Liberación de Angola, (MPLA), … amongst the parties that signed the…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… The Angolan Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil war was raged between two major factions, the Communist MPLA … and…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… training. Five of them eventually qualified. When World War I broke out in August 1914, these pilots were granted … and artillery spotting missions over…
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… surrendered in 1906. Germany was defeated during World War I , and lost all her colonies, including South West Africa. At the end of the war, the colony was…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… of the Territory in 1843, had been wary of provoking a war with the Zulu Kingdom. But with changed circumstances in … and Tugela Rivers and installed as a …
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… two east African countries started long before the Ogaden War. In 1976, Ethiopia distributed a 39 page memorandum titled “War Clouds in the Horn of Africa”…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… fear of further dispossession of their land: Since the Anglo Zulu War in 1879, large tracts of land in Natal and Zululand had … of Native Affairs, to…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… throughout Africa following the end of the Second World War was a crucial factor in achieving independence for many … unity. Background Following the end of…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… throughout Africa following the end of the Second World War was a crucial factor in achieving independence for many … unity. Background Following the end of…
ArticleThe New Group
… outside the country. By the end of the Second World War the New Group, like many other collaborations of its …
ArchiveWe Call For An End To Conscription
… the illegal occupation of Namibia and to wage unjust war against foreign countries... We believe that the financial cost of the war increases the poverty of…
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I. The day is observed world-wide, though under various … why 11 November was chosen in 1919 as the day…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Military Service in Western Europe during the First World War and was awarded the Croix de Recompense for distinguished … of distinguished and exceptional…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… On this date is also commemorated the anti-colonial war against Germany in the figure of Samuel Maharero. A Chief who fled to Botswana during the war and…
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… Mengistu Haile Mariam.Zinawi waged a successful rebel war against the forces of Mengistu and his appointment marked the end of years of civil war in the…
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
… continued to resist the Italians, waging a guerrilla war to undermine and destabilise the process of colonisation. At the height of World War II in 1943,…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… Place', or just Baragwanath. The Second World War brought many changes. As the five years of worldwide … had to change rapidly from appeasement politics to…
PlaceChad
… [v] . Post-colonial Chad was marred by both a small scale war with Libya and a protracted internal conflict from 1966 … [lxxxi] . In 1939 Chad contributed…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
… Mr. Creswell's "see it through" policy in regard to the war." Ever since the beginning of the war the Party had been working on a basis adopted last … of…
PlaceZonderwater
… one another! The Prison was once the largest prisoner of war camps by the Allies! Zonderwater was set up in 1941, during World War II, specifically for…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
… the recruitment process for troops to assist in World War 1 was not heavily impacted. On the 23rd of March the 1st … volunteered, that you might have to…
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… Africa to Europe for any service in connection with the war or otherwise.” This motion was against the backdrop of … Native Labour Contingent to assist…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… alarm at its launch of nuclear missiles in 1962. Nuclear war was avoided as Cuba agreed to dismantle the missiles, but … and the United States during the…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… and the Afrikaners. On the grounds are the Dellville Wood War Memorials, which pay tribute to South African troops who died during the First World War. The…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… Document 55 Circular Letter - Invitation to a Meeting of Anglo-American Secretariat, 27 December 1935 Document 56 Report of M. Kotane to Anglo-American…
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… between the British and the Boers and the First World War; and with the Second World War the Afrikaner stood up against British imperialism With …
EventMogadishu seaport is handed over to the combined task force by UN
… attempts by UNO and OAU, to curb a prolonged civil war that broke out in 1991. The civil war erupted after the downfall of President Siad Barre. It …
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to end the civil war. Hammerskjöld became involved in attempts to solve the civil war in the Congo after an appeal…
EventLord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria
… In May 1900, at the height of the South African War (1899-1902), Field Marshall Lord Roberts and his forces … surrender and accept the British terms for an…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… new political and cultural associations. In Cape Town, the war rhetoric politicised some sections of the coloured community in Cape Town, the war was fought…