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table { border: none; border-collapse: collapse; } td { border: none; border-color: red; } During the month of May we celebrate Africa…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… accept the consequences of its actions. We have declared war on apartheid. The regime has declared war on all opponents of apartheid. But we declared war…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… accept the consequences of its actions. We have declared war on apartheid. The regime has declared war on all opponents of apartheid. But we declared war…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… The Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World War II The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), also … Due to the experience and effects of…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… Let me tell you?—?the Japanese do not remember. The war, hundreds of thousands of civilian killings during the … about facts concerning, let us say, the…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… Jacob (Job) Masego, World War 2 (WW2) veteran, who sunk a German supply boat, died in … 722 South Africans who were taken to a German prisoner-of-war camp…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… which was located deep within Soviet-occupied post-World War II Germany. This event was one of the first international crises to occur during the Cold War,…
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
… fear of antagonising the public against involvement in a war that was not theirs at all. South African President P.W. … paid a visit to the area where many…
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… Army during the latter part of the 1966-1988 border war. Several hundred Plan cadres were killed in the first … SADF, in what became popularly known as the…
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… was a charismatic leader. He desperately tried to avoid war between the Transvaal Republic and Britain. During … without endangering the independence of the…
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
… The civil war in Somalia during 1980-1990 resulted in an enormous … people killed and 1.5 million people displaced. This civil war directly resulted in a…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… and looting during the frontier wars, and during World War II was renamed 'The Pig & Whistle' by servicemen from the … fleeing to the Wesleyan chapel during…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… while still in France. At this point, the Algerian War of Independence had been well under way for four years. Ahmed fought as a freedom fighter in the war…
4. Conclusion
… to shifting Soviet positions. 113 At the outset of World War II, the CPSA endorsed the Soviet Union's non-aggression … pact with Germany and took the line…
Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… of the Cape Corps, c. 1919 1 At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Dr. Abdurahman and the A. P.O. supported the government in going to war against Germany,…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… involvement of the South African racists in the Rhodesian war of liberation, the armed struggle in that country grew … including, as we were told before the…
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… like the French Revolution, and sometimes leads to civil war. There are however political revolutions that are …
PlaceKroonstad
It's name being symbolic of royalty (“Kroon” is Dutch for crown), Kroonstad has very humble beginnings. It was named after Voorktrekker Sarel Cilliers' horse,…
EventJapanese submarines attack naval base in Madagascar
… Indian Ocean. Fortunately Japan decided to direct their war effort toward the Pacific Ocean and put pressure on … in the Indian Ocean, the outcome of the…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… depression that contributed to the outbreak of civil war. The civil war pitted two rebel groups, the Somali Patriotic Movement …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… great that in certain regions it was compared to a civil war. This state, among others, forced the Apartheid … the bargaining table, as the only outcome of…
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… first Comrades Marathon was run by Vic Clapham, ex World War One veteran and other 34 runners, who initiated it as a … Clapham wanted to remember those who…
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 …
ArticleZulu
… The Zulu never regained their independence ( see Anglo-Zulu Wars ). Natal received "Colonial government" in …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… th the S.A. Labour Party', pamphlet published by the War on War League (SA) in March 1915. Document 2: 'Pamphlet 'The Labour Party's Duty in the War, a…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… of those that had supported him. In 1989, the first civil war of Liberia broke out, with the rebel group being led by … soon sparked more conflict and the…
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… charge of the Voice of Nigeria. During the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70) Achebe was in the Biafran government service, … internal conflict (see Nigeria,…
EventUnited Party MP for Benoni, D.G. Ross, dies in England after a long illness
… the greater part of his life. During the Second World War Ross served as an Officer in the Third Transvaal Scottish Regiment. After the war he devoted…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Police vehicle in Mamelodi and the latter went off at an Anglo American building in Johannesburg, causing extensive … of community organisations. This…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… Police vehicle in Mamelodi and the latter went off at an Anglo American building in Johannesburg, causing extensive … of community organisations. This…