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ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… independence, and to prevent a proxy Cuban-South African war on Angolan soil. 1982 SWAPO, together with the frontline …
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… wrote that ‘In South Africa the laws of Parliament are at war with the laws of economics. Apartheid is at variance with … 12 June 1805, quoted in J.S. Marais…
ArchiveReport of Sub-Committee on problems of the Congress Movement
… London comrades to explain the idea of a Council of War and examine and summarise a memorandum received from the …
Non-Violence News, August 1980
… rules and some church members who may not participate in war. All these were brought to the martial court and to the …
ArchiveNon-Violence News, August 1980
… rules and some church members who may not participate in war. All these were brought to the martial court and to the …
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… he did not comply with. Therefore, in January 1879 the Anglo/Zulu War of 1879 began and lasted until his capture in August …
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… History of imperialism and the start of the first world war. Various artwork of people fighting. Map of Africa …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… contributor to national production during the second world war. The growth of manufacturing swelled the size of the … from 76,000 to 249,000. Moreover, in…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Southern United States of America, the start of the Civil War, and the end of slavery. Series of folders numbers 3521- …
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… of the Nazi occupation and attrocities and start of World War 2. Series of folders numbers 3521 - 3529 and folder …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… the strike which is said to have resembled a mini civil war between white mineworkers and armed Dragoons (police or … reflected the SATLC’s optimism about…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… painted wall traditions do not appear to predate the land war of 1882-3. Up to that time their architecture made … black and immigrant white groups. The ZAR…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… health concerns but soon after the end of the First World War she returned home to South Africa in 1920 as her health … of an Igbo woman, her own ethnic…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… the provision of mass housing schemes soon after World War II. In some cases one or two of these causes combined to … in wages. Provision of mass housing…
Say It out Loud - 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,…
PlaceAlgeria
… the 'Front De Liberation Nationale', (FNL) led a guerrilla war against French rule. This ended victoriously in 1962, … of militant Islam and the start of a…
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… her love for the film industry. During the Second World War Gutsche was hired as a film adviser to the South African … scripts for documentaries and…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… marked the end of racial segregation after a protracted war of liberation that claimed many lives. In the ninety year … are becoming disillusioned as the…
PlacePhillipton
… prevented from returning to Philipton after the frontier war of 1834-35. James Backhouse visited him in January 1839 … and butter for twopence." (1844: 184)…
ArchiveInternational Womens Day
… of a face. Meeting convened by Women Against Repression (WAR). List of speakers. …
EventHattie McDaniels Wins An Academy Award
… was about the American South during the American civil war of 1861-1865. …
ArchiveMemorandum on political prisoners
… Covers the ANC's views on the treatment of prisoners of war, political prisoners in South Africa, and resettlement …
ArchiveToys are for cuddling not for killing
… and one with a gun with words "would you buy your child a war toy to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace?" and …
PlaceAnzac, a Railway Siding near Brakpan
… troops who landed at Anzac Cove in Turkey, in World War 1. This day is remembered for all the servicemen and …
ArchiveAn address by the General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party
… by the government that the country is engaged in a 'Total War'. Outlines the history of the SACP, the Party's programme …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977 on the humanitarian conduct of war. 1981 8 January, In its January 8th statement, the ANC … annual 8 January statement, the ANC…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… only when in my forties, during and after the Second World War, that I began to open my eyes to the real world around … middle-class family. My early years…
ArchiveConscripts to their age: African National Congress operational strategy, 1976-1986 by Howard Barrell
… Desirable Accidents Chapter 7 - Planning for people's war CHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity …
PlaceCommittees Drift, Eastern Cape
… outpost established by the British during the frontier war of 1819. The name "committees" is pronounced by locals as …
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… still one of the finest accounts and analyses of the civil war. She followed this with her wry and insightful account of … novelist, feminist, abolitionist,…