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Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… should be purely under the British Rule unmingled with the Boer Rule which is very harsh and oppressive to all men of … Crown and sold to the highest bidder”…
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 …
EventMovie director Henry Cornelius dies
… where he produced several films for General Smuts's pro-war propaganda campaign. Cornelius also made several feature …
EventControl of communication bureau is placed under Foreign Affairs
… to buy international and local newspapers in a propaganda war. …
EventSA Journalist James Gray is born
… Despatch and was wounded three times in the First World War before joining the parliamentary staff of The Times. He …
Chapter 6
… of political consciousness in the people. The second World War inevitably had its repercussions in South Africa and by … of the general ferment throughout…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… constituted a formidable barrier to the invaders, both Boer and British. Through his numerous correspondents. Dr. … the wounding of a chief to give the…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… Congress (ANC) meet and pass a resolution regarding World War II. They sympathise with the British Commonwealth and … give full recognition to the Africans…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… written in pigeon English Sozaboy, about the Biafran war. Saro Wiwa was arrested and eventually executed for his … peace to a country that was bankrupt and…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… It was used for military purposes during the Second World War. From 1961 to 1991 it was used as a maximum security … Castle. (1) What was Robben Island used…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… and civic unrest that erupted in the aftermath of World War II. Consequently, throughout the 1950s unrest in African, … were moving away from racist policies…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… Hertzog and Smuts differed violently on joining the war. Hertzog reunited with Malan in the Nationalist Party … 1 September, Germany invades Poland and the…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… including trans-Atlantic slavery, colonialism, the Biafran war, military coups and counter-coups that rocked the … away from Nigeria. This resulted in the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.4 Jul-Sept 1960
… At Last Sierra Leone, Dr. Edward W. Blyden. The Algerian War, Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Tunis Diary, Catherine Hoskyns. A …
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… called for the MK operatives to be treated as prisoners of war under the protection of the Geneva Convention. A few …
PlacePolokwane Art Museum
… were confiscated and destroyed at the end of the Makgoba War in 1893, is also on display in the library gardens. The …
EventFlorence Nightingale opens the first school for nurses at the St. Thomas hospital in London
… career. Nightingale gained popularity during the Crimean war where she cared for wounded soldiers. In 1860 she …
EventFirst victim of the land invasions in Zimbabwe, David Stevens, is murdered
… in the on-going land confrontations involving so-called "war veterans" backed by President Robert Mugabe's ruling … 2014]|Beeston, R. & Dynes, M., Zimbabwe…
EventThe ANC leader in the KwaZulu Natal midlands, Sifiso Nkabinde, is expelled from the ANC
… units. He was also accused of starting a low-level war that left 120 people in the Richmond area dead. In …
EventThe force of the Union of South Africa enters Windhoek, capital of South West Africa.
… After the outbreak of World War I, there was immediate fighting in different parts of the … Asia and their Deployment in Europe during the First World War ,…
PlaceKuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… the new Harbour had to be abandoned. During the frontier war of 1846-47 , better known as the War of the Axe, the British made use of Waterloo Bay , … German…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… a national congress of the Jewish community. It is an index of the changes we have achieved during the first few …
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 … The Union brought together the…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… community, and became a vocal supporter of the British war effort when the Second World War broke out. Although having friends connected to the …
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… have happened in the history of mankind. A devastating war, marked by ruthless barbarity and fiendish cruelty, has … by our Government on the ground that it…
Establishment of the Food Committee
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , South Africa was undergoing a downturn in economic …
Establishment of Food Committee
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the South African economy was very weak.Unemployment … 2016. https://www.sahistory.org.za/article…
Establishment of the Food Committee
… In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , South Africa was undergoing a downturn in economic … 2016. https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/second…
EventNuclear Reactor At Pelindaba Goes Critical
… fuel it. South Africa's nuclear program began after World War II when uranium deposits were discovered in the country. …
EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
… deployed in South African townships and who fought in the war in Namibia. President F. W. de Klerk announced that it …