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ArchiveAppendix 4 Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe by Denis Goldberg
… aspirations without the suffering and bitterness of civil war. But the people's patience is not endless. The time comes … changed before matters reach the…
EventLord Baden-Powell’s sister, Agnes, establishes the Girl Guides Movement
… that was founded by Baden-Powell during the South African War of 1899-1902. During the war Baden-Powell, a British officer enlisted boys to act as …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of 'Cape Coloured men', called the Cape Corps, is established
… Africa in 1916 to fight on the side of the Allies in World War One. The corps was made up of coloured members of the … More than 12 000 South African…
EventFirst Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe
… After a war of independence fought between members of various …
EventInhabitants flee UNITA occupation
… to accept electoral defeat plunged Angola back into civil war. …
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I’Ons (85) dies
… of Albany, Eastern Cape, shortly before the sixth Frontier War broke out. His works portrayed life on the frontier and …
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… aftermath of bitterness like that, which had followed the Anglo-Boer war between the Afrikaners and the British. It was Professor …
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… peoples to the four freedoms by having taken part in this war which can be converted into a war for human freedom if the settlement at the Peace Table is ……
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… peoples to the four freedoms by having taken part in this war which can be converted into a war for human freedom if the settlement at the Peace Table is ……
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… democratic ideals they had defended in the Second World War, less than five years earlier. The new government, they … is worthy of study in its own right…
PlaceUtrecht
… 1900 British troops occupied Utrecht during South African War of 1899 - 1902 as their headquarters. The British were … various heads of states. At the end of…
PlaceElukhanyweni
… the 1846-7 border conflict, more popularly known as The War of the Axe, when a British military outpost, generally … hostilities in 1850. In 1851, as a…
EventPresident Zuma visits Russia
… Moscow for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Jacob Zuma had …
PlaceErica Girl’s School Building, Richmond Hill, Port Elizabeth
… lessons in the old Erica Hall. After the South African War, it was decided to erect a new school building, which was …
Kingdoms of southern Africa: Thulamela
… the death of a ruler, an environmental disaster or war over the control of land and resources. These questions …
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… of Amiens and British forces left the Cape. That same year war between Britain and France broke again in Europe, …
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… zeal became less important. What had begun as a holy war against the Christians turned into a struggle for land, …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… After World War II , the process of decolonization of the African …
Chapter 3
… and early thirties, as a result of the first World War, the whole world had been gripped in the throes of an … the reactionary attitude of the Northern…
PlaceBritish Fort, Marabastad, Polokwane
… seven forts in the Transvaal during the First Transvaal War of Independence (1880–1881); they were situated at …
EventMandela and De Klerk hold emergency talks
… could find a solution to the conflict and avert full-scale war between ANC and IFP supporters. …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… who were employed by the former SA Defence Force in its war against the South West African People's Organisation … and in effect bans the singing of the song…
ArchiveRenewed fighting in April
… the most intense fighting in the history of the border war raged along the 300 km frontier . According to official …
EventEmperor Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia dies
… black African King to engage in slavery of white European war captives held as slaves inside Ethiopia. After defeating …
EventRobert Mugabe returns to Rhodesia after being in exile for five years
… in Mozambique and had managed to spearhead a guerrilla war against the Salisbury (now Harare) government. A cheering …
EventUN approves embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea
… following the latest flare-up in their two-year border war. The embargo could be immediately terminated if a …
PlaceComrades Marathon- 'House' or Museum
… to honour South African soldiers killed in the World War I. It was only in 1975 that Black runners and Women were … in remembrance of the fallen men, in the…
EventJohn Thomas Baines is born
… past the Orange River. Baines recorded the Eighth Frontier War and became South Africa's first official war artist. Some years later, he returned to England,…
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… clutches will settle with you and, with them, the whole Boer nation, who are finding themselves in the Voortrekker … case was set down for hearing, but in…
EventSouth Sudan is declared an independent state
… After five decades of unrest and civil war, South Sudan was granted independence on 9 July 2011 with …