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EventThe Second Battle of El Alamein starts
… Montgomery, the new commander of the Eighth Army in World War 2, initiated a second attack at El Alamein, a town in … Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 518.|…
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… Strachan, former South African Air Force pilot in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa …
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… in the Italian governed part of Somalia prior to World War Two, Barre was found to excel in the sphere of politics. …
EventVan Riebeeck establishes the first burgher commando
… (Hottentot) rising, sometimes called the 'First Hottentot War' (though it was rather a series of skirmishes), started …
EventNelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
… and headed the first United Nations study on the impact of war on children. The couple decided to tie the knot on Nelson …
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… power in a peaceful election following a seven-year civil war, launched from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire in 1989. He …
EventCrime statistics released
… status as the most violent country in the world excluding war zones. The figures reveal that 10 161 people were …
Coal Miners Strike on the Rand
… By March 1922 Johannesburg had been turned into a war zone. Resistance only stopped on 14 March after heavy …
EventThe League of Nations is established
… The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between …
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… Africa shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War. She is well known as a painter of landscapes and still …
EventThe prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed
… of Namibia dates back to 1914 during the First World War. At the time of its occupation by South Africa Namibia …
EventBoers and the British clash in the battle of Dalmanutha
… This was the last conventional battle of the South African War (1899-1902). The climax of the battle of Dalmanutha came … Pretorius F. ‘The Second Anglo-Boer…
EventRobben Island is turned into a maximum security prison
… while the other part was used as a prison. During World War II, the Island was used mainly as a training camp. The …
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… with deep origins throughout the continent, the effects of war and economic hardship, as well as everyday challenges … its economy growing by 8% each year,…
PlaceDwarsvlei Farm, Karoo
… which he supplied Middelburg. During the South African War Henry Nourse was closely associated with Colonel Ignatius … campaign . On the outbreak of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… monarch”. [7] His involvement in the Seven Years War (1756 – 1763) drained France’s treasury. [8] While the … economic conditions of France. King Louis XIV …
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… as essential to guarantee them a worthy place in the post war world. 4. The President-General accordingly invited … with the thinking of Africans on the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… in the urban areas if they had a job. 1939-1945: World War II. Source 2 Young men are coming of age every year but … of the manufacturing industry Then came…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… set out the stages and requirements for a 'guerrilla' war. The Rivonia Trial , as it came to be known, commenced in … For instance, in 2000 he was appointed…
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… and the manufacture of armoured cars for South Africa’s war effort. Directly after the war in early 1947, the company decided to build a fully …
Document 55 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935
… prepared, without fuss and in the name of peace to fight a war against the disturber of the peace, Italy. To fail to … working class for the preparation of…
EventLiberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe publically offers to resign
… rebels who went on a bloody rampage during the decade-long war that ended in 2002 with more than 50 000 dead. …
EventEgyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack
… Egypt and other Arab nations were defeated by Israel in a war that lasted only six days in 1967. At the time, Egypt was …
EventGamal Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic
… of awakening, of wasting Arab nationalism on an unwinnable war, and an alliance with the USSR that brought little …
EventWorld Refugee Day
… campaign for 2014 will continue to emphasize the impact of war on families by allowing individuals to share their …
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… of worker unity. Formed in the stormy years after World War I with a membership of only twenty-four, the Industrial …
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… British had armed Black people during the South African War, though in many cases they had done the same. … Available at: latrobe.edu.au [Accessed 26 April…
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… contested elections of 1948 following the end of the World War II, 1945. After emerging victorious, DF Malan said “today …
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 … the destruction and…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I'Ons (85) dies
… of Albany, Eastern Cape, shortly before the sixth Frontier War broke out. His works portrayed life on the frontier and …