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EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… Military operations continued until 1907. When World War I broke out, South African forces occupied German South …
EventBasutoland (now Lesotho) becomes British territory
… of affairs led to increased tension, and in 1880 the Gun War broke out. The result of the conflict was that Basutoland …
EventThe peace talks between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) are called off
… the ANC of putting the country on the brink of civil war and of aiming to wreck the negotiation process, setting …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… monopoly of power in a country will only lose it through war or violent revolution. It is extremely rare in history to … states to join the ANC in exile…
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… of the British Dominions, the services rendered during the war by the dhooly-bearers that came with Sir George White, … parents have been resident in the…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… South Africa. After the end of the South African War , the British and Afrikaners began working on …
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… During the South African War the British military authorities imported a large number … rust, which have become a trademark in the area. After the war the …
Archive2008 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2008
… agreement with the comments made by the Chief Executive of Anglo American, Cynthia Carroll, when she addressed the … In South Africa our own large companies…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… for both men and women. Our volunteers must be put on a war footing. A PERMANENT CRISIS. The burning of the passes … even of a higher quality but certainly…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
… it gained from Britain in 1960. At the time of the civil war the official population of Nigeria was 60 million … Tebyan.net, 2010. ‘Nigerian Civil War…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… small Black upper class, and after a 15-year liberation war that won Zimbabwe its independence in 1980, the school … filing into the Beit Hall. The hall was…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… possible terms that we believe in the ending of the cold war which is today creating fears in the mind of humanity. If we cannot have peace the only…
PlaceBethlehem, Free State
… of the Orange Free State in 1900, during the South African War. The Town has railway workshops, cold-storage plants, … of former residents of the Town. If…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… else, has been the Pretoria-led and imperialist-backed war of destabilisation. However, the apartheid regime has also paid a high price in conducting this…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VIII - “Christianity and Civilization”
… one breath. As they saw it, "God's purpose was to make the Anglo-Saxon race predominant." Inspired by the profits of … since the chiefs were the leaders of…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… European Jews (having been a Jew himself), love, anti-war ideals, and family dynamics. By honouring these ones in …
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… of the newly independent American colonies and declared war on England. At this stage the French established a …
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… down by a fire in 1906 and rebuilt in 1910. During World War 1 , Moschke was interned and upon his release he found …
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Union and the United States to the brink of a nuclear war. In June 1963, the test ban negotiations resumed. On 5 … Cold War: Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed …
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… Mayibuye'. It outlined a possible strategy of guerrilla war fare. The six men had been studying the document when …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… and became known as Namibia. References: The Namibian War of Independence 1966-1988, Wars of the World [online]. …
Performance, Violence and the Collapse of a Cultural Movement by Ari Sitas
… ascendance and growth and pessimism during the civil war in KZN and ends with the final failed attempt to revive …
EventMagnus Malan's trial ends
… allegations that the former government had waged a dirty war against its opponents. Judge Jan Hugo concluded his …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… was carried out as the ‘Final Solution’ under the guise of war. The Einsatzgruppen followed German soldiers into … for crimes against humanity in addition to…
Business leaders pay tribute to Mandela by staff writer, December 8 2013
… made his true greatness manifest for the entire world." ”¢ Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani commented: "Madiba’s …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… to NUSAS of the first black campus, Fort Hare. After the war NUSAS remained apolitical, believing it should only …
PlaceAthenaeum building, Belmont Terrace, Port Elizabeth
… as well as social activities. After the Second World War the Port Elizabeth Musical and Dramatic Society rented …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… William. William was a WAAF ambulance driver during World War II and worked as a clerk at Lloyds in 1947. The two …
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… to the depression that followed the end of the First world war . …
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… within two years. This, however, did not end the war in Rhodesia. The Black movements in Rhodesia and the …