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EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana's incorporation following major unrest
… and Dr. Tjaart van der Walt was appointed as the territory's new administrator. …
Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
… unions had a decisive role in the political life of the territory that became the Union of South Africa and later the …
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New Imperialism period, between the … Timeline: 1885 King Leopold II formally…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.2 Jun 1980
… Birth by John Gambanya, November ’76 by Paul Hotz, Home Territory by Chris Chapman, The Pest of Love by Xolile …
PlaceGanyesa
… This is a rural Village that is part of the traditional territory of the local Tswana folk. Years ago, it was part of … This is a rural village that is part…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… South West Africa, as it was called while it was a German territory was placed under the South African administration …
Zastron
… to the border of that mountainous country Lesotho, this territory is stark and beautiful. The town is named after Ms …
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… South Africa had seized the German territory (then known as South-West Africa) during World War …
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… no one has no relative whatsoever with whom to live. The territory to which a person belongs may be that of his … father's people or that of his mother's…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… inhabited these regions desperately fought to defend their territory. In the end however, the superior weapons and … By the 1860s, European occupation of…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… of the Vaal River, on the western edges of Fokeng-Kwena territory. From 1750 onwards, intensifying trade and more … ties to San peoples who lived just west…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… Mozambique. The fact that it chrashed over South African territory raised some questions about the possibilities of … Kamuzu Banda, of setting up a base for…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… the border by Ronel Segal into the then British controlled territory of Bechunaland. He was followed by Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… monopoly: it gave the VOC the power to colonise whichever territory it desired and enslaving the indigenous people …
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
… government offices. The town falls within the traditional territory of the Batlharo Ba Lotlhware group of the Tswana …
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… the Kei River. He promised to keep them out of the neutral territory and ceded 10,000 square kilometers of good …
PlaceFicksburg
… town was founded by General Johan Fick in 1867 who won the territory in the Basotho Wars. Ficksburg is situated in the …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… were tense. [40] In the 19th Century, they settled in Cape territory and supported Whites in the frontier wars against …
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… in 1492. The island was named Hispaniola and became the territory of the Spanish crown until the western part of the …
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… initial land-mine explosions, the first in South African territory, army officers said they had been told by … Minister Robert Mugabe said he would not allow…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… the initial stages in the dismemberment of Moshoeshoe's territory. This part of the story involves the missionaries, … wars that had been going on in the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… tribes were being squeezed into an ever-narrowing strip of territory; to the north-west of him were the baThembu, to the … re-occupy grazing land in the…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… belong to the armed forces or who are subject to loss of territory, which has been taken by an occupying power. In …
PlaceUganda
… buffalo, leopard and spotted hyena. Much of Uganda territory, is made up of Lake Victoria. Around 500 B.C. Bantu …
EventThe UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
… agreed to allow the suspects to be tried in neutral territory though still under Scottish law. By April 1999, the …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… signed the agreement linking its withdrawal from the territory to an end to Soviet and Cuban involvement in the …
PlaceCradock Division
… district. Over the next 52 years various portions of its territory were separated to form new divisions at Middelburg …
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… in Natal, beginning with the occupation of the Territory in 1843, had been wary of provoking a war with the …
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… ready labour pool. The Khoikhoi attempted to regain their territory by again attacking the Dutch in 1659 and 1673, but …
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
The year 1896 signifies an important moment in African history. In that year, on 1 March 1896, a historic battle between invading Italian forces and a strong…