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EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… supply chain. References: Conflict Diamonds: Sanctions and War [online] Available at: www.un.org [Accessed 13 July 2010] …
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… seen 2000 out of more than 4000 farms being occupied by war veterans - farms initially intended for Black peasant …
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… Xhosa war hero and regent of the AmaNgqika (Gaika) Xhosa clan …
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… the guerilla warfare develop ultimately into full-scale war, and under what conditions would this be done? (d) Whom … disposal? Can they be defeated? 5. The…
EventThe fall of the Berlin wall
… In the aftermath of World War 2 Germany was partitioned into East and West Germany. The … into the 45 km Berlin wall and came to symbolise the cold war…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… now called the people to armed struggle, and now we are at war. Since August 1967, our brave fighters, together with … to break the chains of white…
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
… now called the people to armed struggle, and now we are at war. Since August 1967, our brave fighters, together with … to break the chains of white…
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and Developments
… resistance, post-colonialism, neo-colonialism, civil war, neo-liberal globalisation, and ecological destruction, … the African Diaspora; mediating violence,…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… against specified offences during a fixed period Cold War – the state of political hostility and distrust existing … crossed the Rubicon with his army, he…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… Development of Langa location In the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were … affiliations became intense prior to the…
PlaceThe SAS Somerset Museum
… a type of net-laying ship that was used during World War II and is the only ship of its kind still in existence. …
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… in Motetema near Groblersdal. The incident sparked a war on the Lebowa government. Vehicles were burnt, and … state of emergency was declared, and police…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… (SAHO) Her father was a naval officer, and during World War I, he was held a prisoner of war because of his demand for a destroyer. When Ruth was just …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… that the responsibility for the slide towards bloody civil war lay squarely with the regime" . In the six or so months … 'desert rat' during the early stages…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Introduction Following British victory in the South African War , the Union of South Africa was forged in 1910 under the … nationalism reached its momentum…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan compares the “War on Terror” with the “War on AIDS.” 2005 The CDC recommends anti-retroviral …
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… left out. But it’s not to say there’s an irreconcilable war between the two, and these irreconcilables usually end up … we have interviewed see the nature of…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… of the Burghers that lost their lives during the Basotho war of 1865-1866. 1877 The National Museum is established in …
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… who had moved to the United States during the First World War. Preaching the unity of all blacks, he claimed that …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… a role in reducing the numbers of infection. This is a war, it has killed more people than has been the case in all … for the Study of AIDS.|Van Wyk, B. …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… Within four years of Van Riebeeck's arrival, the first war between the Khoikhoi and the Dutch broke out, as the Khoi …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… Madressa. 1917 – 1918 Just prior to the end of World War I, Mahomed Dadoo takes his family on holiday to Gujarat, …
PlaceRehoboth
… than 20 years but in 1914, following the outbreak of World War I, Germany's use of Baster Soldiers to guard South …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… It would have further established South Africa as a cold war ally of the US in their fight against communism. The …
PlaceMonterey House, Klaasens Road, Wynberg
… was built by PAM Cloete shortly after the South African War. Shortly thereafter it was sold to an American, Hugh …
PlaceRailway Administration Building, bounded by Maitland-, Hanger, St Andrew and Harvey Streets, Bloemfontein
… 1900 at the Battle of Paardeberg during the Second Boer War, the Station became a major point of strategic fighting …
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… one Officer on base at the Fort. After the outbreak of the War, the Soldiers and Armament were moved to the Natal Fort, …
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… silent and it played no part in the conflict. After the war it was converted into a prison, and during the first …
Class Struggle
… Thus the classes were in a state of struggle, or even war, against each other. The class struggle was not confined …
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… was to South Africa in 1936. During the Second World War, Johnson became a first officer for the Air Transport …