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Cosatu special congress, Day Two: Numsa, Vavi walloped by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 15 July 2015, South Africa
… were greatly outnumbered. On Tuesday, their plan for a rebellion against the leadership petered out. Cosatu … He was emboldened and determined to quash any…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… Barely 18 years old, Qabula was caught up in the Pondoland rebellion hiding and starving in the forests. In 1964 he …
EventGerman Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swakopmund, South West Africa
… It was in this position that he helped suppress the Boxer rebellion of 1900. On 11 June 1904, von Trotha arrived in …
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… children in the Anglo-Boer War, the failure of the 1914 Rebellion , and the growth of the poor White problem. A …
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… However, by 20 April 1961, 524 alleged participants of the rebellion remained in police detention. …
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… escape. The colonialists may have been fearful of a rebellion or a renewal in resistance if the amaXhosa knew of …
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… of Sir Gordon Sprigg was trying to restore order after a rebellion in 1880 . The ministry had precipitated the revolt …
PlaceGreytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… in Greytown, almost a Century ago, with the Bhambatha Rebellion . This uprising against white authority by a local … - for a brief history of the Bambatha…
PlaceBobbejaan Mountain, Elands Bay
… how far you walk in. The trail starts at the Eerste Tol/De Nek parking area, and heads immediately down to the …
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… could be employed at a cheaper rate. The strike grew to a rebellion against the Government. It was suppressed by bomber …
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
… song from the airwaves hoping to dampen the flames of the rebellion. The words of the song continued to resonate at … that their influence had contributed to…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… economy was dramatically affected. In order to suppress a rebellion in 1879, units of the British Indian Army had been …
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… OutÂraged, Cape officials sent instigators of the burgher rebellion to Holland on the return fleet. Tas was arrested …
Zulu Community
… labour. Resistance to this tax resulted in the Bambatha Rebellion . Some two thousand Zulu workers and domestic … city to return to their homesteads, where…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… mockery of employers could be viewed as muted rituals of rebellion and as a crucial mode of adaptation, a line of … striking heavily, which created a climate…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… themselves as the Kenya Land Freedom Army (KFLA). As the rebellion continues Britain declares a state of emergency in … Around 50,000 British soldiers are…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… Smuts was happy with the situation as it was. The Rand Rebellion of 1922 further strengthened the popularity, as it … to cooperation between the and the…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… to regain their independence . British forces crushed the rebellion. Chief Mankuroane fled to neighbouring Tswana …
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… the indigenous cultures were gradually being destroyed. A rebellion by Herero people in Namibia broke out in January …
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… , between 1835 and the early 1840's. The Great Trek was in rebellion against the policies of the British government and … between 1835 and the early 1840's…
PlaceLibya
… decades until he was toppled in 2011 following an armed rebellion assisted by Western military intervention. In …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… helped to again quell the labour action. In 1922 the Rand Rebellion erupted with Witwatersrand gold-miners striking in …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… in May, but protests by opposition followers and a rebellion by an army faction on September 21 result in an …
ArticlePoqo
… was spurred to vigorously suppress any potential rebellion. Already strict security laws were strengthened …
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… Khoi. They included a number of slaves from India. The rebellion cost no lives. The news of their uprising reached … footnotes 6 to 20 of Chapter on "The…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
… 1995 with all Tuareg and Toubou groups that had been in rebellion since 1990, claiming they lacked attention and …
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… Batlle in the Subzee Mundee, a watercolour of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857by British artist G F Atkinson. Source: … did not like British rule. This led to the…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… Joubert and the Boer forces took up a position at Laing's Nek to check on the arrival of British reinforcements. …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… over is enforced in Natal. February - June, the Bambatha Rebellion erupts in Natal in protest against the hut tax … to assist the British in the campaign to…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… now be traded only within the colony. The Koeberg slave rebellion in the Swartland near Malmesbury, led by Louis of …