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Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… was in pain. The community was divided into two groups at war with each other. I visited mortuaries showing the … and bullet marks on outside walls bore…
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… increase in student enrolment after the Second World War led to accommodation problems, which were temporarily …
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… Chapter 3 The Life of a Freedom Fighter Chapter 4 The war of position in small things Chapter 5 Denis - Our Leader …
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… regime relied heavily on imported components for its war effort. This came to light on the 2 April 1984 when four …
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… to how Namibia would be governed after its independence, war in Ovamboland and Angola continued to rage during the …
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… protecting oil installations during the Angolan Civil War. The arrest of the group was allegedly the result of a … www.channel4.com [Accessed 26 July 2010]|…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… (ANC). He became its president at the tail end of World War I, in 1917. As President of the SANNC, Makgatho worked …
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… to England to serve in the medical corps in World War I. Dart left England for South Africa in 1922, where he …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… and threatened then President F.W. de Klerk with civil war. Following the end of Apartheid, Terre'Blanche and his …
EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… for Total Independence of Angola (Unita) in the civil war in Angola and defied the security personnel of the ANC. …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… the first frontier. In 1659 there was an outbreak of war on this frontier with the Dutch settlers led by another … farmhouse situated in Dixton Road,…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… a University be established. By 1899, the South African War had broken out between the ZAR and Britain. In 1902, … of South Africa was declared and in 1914,…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… involved in the food and canning industry during World War II and the post-war era. Black men and women from the Eastern Cape and … during the lull in…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… before 1948 - the years covered by the Second World War - when the reaction was influenced by the war as it had been influenced by specific developments for…
PlaceMhlathuze River
… Zulu and Ndwandwe tribes in 1820, following the Zulu Civil War . The Ndwandwe hierarchy was a largely scattered …
Local Government
… to this service difficult to support. By the time war had broken out in October 1899, its overdraft had long … made to retain a skeleton staff, the…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… of segregation in South Africa during the Second World War . This was because of the growth in industries, where … of segregation in South Africa during the…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… were single males. During and immediately after World War II the majority of urban migrants were families. The … and with it, their influence. By the end of…
The Atlantic slave trade
… slaves on market days." Criminals and prisoners of war, as well as political prisoners were often sold in the … America, however, it was only after the…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people to … Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal…
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… racing in Germany in 1913-1914.[v] He also served in World War One, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross.[vi] Rudolph …
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… Marie played a prominent role during the South African War (1899-1902). She organised petitions, women’s meetings …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the First World War (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans, including 607 …
EventThe Berlin Airlift, which delivered food and fuel to West Berliners during a Soviet blockade, and in which the SAA took part, comes to an end
… on 12 May 1949, and the first great standoff of the Cold War was over. Flights continued for some time, though, to …
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War (WW2), Proclamation 276 of Government Gazette 2699 was …
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… a halt, and political violence, later dubbed “The people’s war”, had spiralled out of control. This summit must also be …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… with the Great Trek and the outbreak of the 6th Xhosa War. Under D'Urban's leadership, the territory between the …
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… After the completion of World War One's Treaty of Versailles, German South West Africa was …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the World War II. In 1944 she was seconded to undertake welfare among …
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… only such guns as had been officially approved of by the War Office and 'Long Cecil' definitely did not fall within … Cloete, P.G. ( 2000). The Anglo-Boer…