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EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… and externally displaced in the four month civil war due to clashes between pro-Gbagbo and pro-Ouattara …
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… served as quarters for the Royal Engineers, After the War, it was occupied by a division of the South African …
PlaceMokopane also known as Potgieterus
Mokopane is also known as Potgietersrus. This is a Town in the Limpopo Province, of South Africa. The Town was established in 1852 by the Voortrekkers who…
PlaceMokopane- also known as Potgietersrus
Mokopane is also known as Potgietersrus. This is a Town in the Limpopo Province, of South Africa. The Town was established in 1852 by the Voortrekkers who…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as 'Long Cecil' is test fired for the first time
… only such guns as had been officially approved of by the War Office and 'Long Cecil' definitely did not fall within …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… Boer leaders seized the occasion to mount a rebellion. The war saw the Boer community divided in two: those opposed to … Contingent. The economy of the…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… Johannesburg , South Africa. 2002 Amulets & Dreams: War, Youth & Change in Africa is published by South … by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim . Amulets & Dreams:…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… into their community. The Black Loyalists During the War of American Independence from 1775 – 1783, a large number … who could prove that they assisted the…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… shift in scholarly approaches to the South African War (1899–1902) and, more generally, with the onset of the … of black and coloured people to the South…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… of West African peacekeepers created a lull in the civil war, and elections were held. A First Attempt at the … Taylor and was charged with treason.) By 1999…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… cannot win us our liberation. Armed struggle and people's war therefore remain key elements in our strategy. The very … clearly that ours will have to be a…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… Arusha peace accord which ended the country’s long civil war, and his declaration was welcomed by anti-Nkurunziza … the country back to the dark days of its…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… from whom also it received its name. "During the Caffre war this settlement was attacked three times by thousands of … witness to the poverty of the mission;…
PlaceSlangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie- Cape Town
… to 1914 when it was scheduled to be completed. When World War 1 broke out, the completion of the lighthouse was pushed …
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
The Mfengu (or Fingo in the colonial lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of…
PlacePilgrims Rest, Graskop- Mpumalanga Province
… working around 4000 claims! During the Second Boer War (11 October 1899 - 31 May 1902) the Town of Pilgrim’s …
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… the Guild of Loyal Women (formed during the South Africa War ) planted commemorative trees, still visible today near …
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… of military coup were economic breakdown and civil war splitting the country into two halves, north and south. …
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… considered a strategic partner at the height of the Cold War. With the spectre of Marxist-backed Nationalist Movements …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith visits the United States, challenging officials to support his plan for the transition of government in the country.
… with moderate black leaders on condition that they eschew war. But exiled leaders, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… in 1822. During his term as governor the Fifth Cape Xhosa War (1818-1819) broke out because of increasing friction …
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… to levels last experienced by the German Mark after World War 1, that the Zimbabwean economy, once among the most …
EventA United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees
… The rebellion escalated, leading to the outbreak of war in the eastern part of the Congo, where thousands of Hutu …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… a post as a Civil Administrator during the Nigerian Civil War and wrote a novel based on his experiences. In 1973, …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… of and involvement the activities of the OB during World War II. He became a member of the NP cabinet in the 1950s. In …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… over the issue of South Africa's involvement in World War Two, with many Afrikaans party members breaking away and …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War. A British woman, Emily Hobhouse became the champion of …
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… was erected by the British military during the frontier war of 1818-19, and was named in honour of Lt-Col Thomas …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… have argued that de Klerk narrowly avoided a civil war that would have been disasterous to the country and the …
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Adwa in 1896 by gathering crucial intelligence on Italian war strategy. Emperor Menelik II returned the favour by savagely amputating the arms and legs of…