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America, Spanish conquest
… This blood was supplied by victims were captured during war. The Aztecs therefore went to war continuously. Those who were defeated and incorporated … Peru,…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… amaXhosa to expand through integrating those they went to war with and defeated or those they allied with, so it is not … were coveting for occupation. [29]…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… by the League of Nations after the First World War. When the United Nations was established after the Second World War, the South African Prime Minister,…
EventAbout 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion
… during a period of economic depression following World War I, when mining companies were faced with rising costs and … the wages for whites had risen 60 per…
EventKing George VI is born
… were crowned as King George VI. At the end of the World War II, King George who had become part of the British's … Smuts, leader of the United Party (UP) and…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… The operation was mounted during the Second World War which started in the early hours of 1 September 1939 when … North African Landings’fromCampaign…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… treat. The white settlers had defeated Native Americans in war battles for land and had had taken their land. On the … (i) believed in absolutism ( total…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… 2015 Building upon the emerging critique of the Post-World War II ‘Development Project’ advanced by several … critique within the broader context of the Post…
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…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… to the forefront of South Africa’s political and social war. While the world sees most of the leaders of the UDF and … but also leading groups into what many…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… between White and Black residents. The South African War of 1899-1901 saw a temporary downturn in Johannesburg's … activity in the region. Following the…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… in Nazi-occupied parts of Europe after the Second World War broke out in 1939. The Nazi racist ideology of a … camp in 1945 at the age of 16, just before the…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… that dates back to long before the Italian Prisoners of War , during World War 11 , built wonderfully constructed road, with its … He started farming in the…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… from them. In this first anti-colonial Khoikhoi-Dutch War the settlers seek refuge in the fort. A lack of unity … 1690 (approx) This period marks the…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… there can be a purely national development of capitalism. Anglo American, Liberty Life, Sanlam, Rembrandt and Old … centres. For example, the biggest…
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…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
… passes. We were all enthusiastic to get there and see this Boer bass and tell him that we are not going to carry those …
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… attitude towards the Natives. The record of British and Boer Imperialism is too black and consistent for the Native …
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… and social cohesion campaigns of the ANC and the war on poverty; Admission policies of universities and … for an independent and full scale investigation…
EventMoroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni
… been ruled by the Alaouite Dynasty since 1631. In 1859, a war was waged against Spain in an attempt to remain independent. Following this war, the French…
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… territory (then known as South-West Africa) during World War I and retained it after the war under a League of Nations mandate. In the years that …
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… Vorster realised that Rhodesia had no hope of winning the war against the liberation movements, especially after … led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, was…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… considerably, partly due to the outbreak of World War One. Britain, having emerged victorious from this war also possessed a large store of aircraft and…
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…
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… for the AmaXhosa after their defeat in the Eighth Frontier War (also called Eighth War of Dispossession). Their political structures had been …
Address at the Opening of The XIII Summit Conference of the Non Aligned Movement 24 February 2003
… to be born? Some had promised that the end of the Cold War just over a decade ago, would lead to the birth of a new … conflicts between Palestine and Israel,…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… Act of Union which brought together erstwhile opponents - Boer and Briton - for the more intensive exploitation of the … And this enormous expenditure on…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… On 31 May 1910, after negotiations between the white Boer Republics and Britain, an act passed in the British … working class. During the 1940s, as a result…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… On 31 May 1910, after negotiations between the white Boer Republics and Britain, an act passed in the British … working class. During the 1940s, as a result…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… a fully democratic country. Mandela helped prevent a civil war and he ensured that no one would be discriminated because …