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EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… landlords living in Britain. During the Second World War, increased work opportunities and the relaxation of …
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… Tobruk was a major blow to the Allied forces during World War Two, as the town contained substantial material, supplies …
EventSheikh Yusuf, regarded as the founder of the Islamic faith in the Cape, dies at Zandvliet (Macassar)
… and supported Sultan Ajung of Bantam, Gowa, in his war against the Dutch. Twice Sheikh Yusuf escaped from Dutch …
EventRaymond Dart completes work on Taung skull
… by Louis Leakey, working in East Africa after World War II, firmly established the African genesis of early …
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… postponed as a result of the outbreak of the First World War. After the elections in April 1920, there was strong push …
EventSouth African cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born
… of Ian Peebles and E.T KIllick. During the First World War he served with distinction with the R.F.A. in Salonika, …
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… in 1899 during the early stages of the South African War . It wasn’t long before the region grew into a … were stationed around the Village during the Second…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… came to be properly understood in terms of People`s War. The Four Pillars of Our Struggle The special … participation of the masses we cannot develop People…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… came to be properly understood in terms of People's War. The Four Pillars of Our Struggle The special … participation of the masses we cannot develop…
PlaceCameroon
… the area became a German colony and after the First World War it was divided between France and Britain [iii] . In 1960 … . However, after defeating the…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… among them the apartheid regime in South Africa, whose war of destabilisation continues to wreak havoc in the region … The process has begun which could end…
Acceptance speech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Oslo, Norway, 10 December 1993
… We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human … to rise up against a social system whose…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… a group of several important White businessmen led by Anglo American chairman Gavin Relly at an isolated game lodge …
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… part of the 1930s. What is more, the outbreak of World War 2 in 1939 prolonged the boom conditions for South African industry for several years. World War 2…
PlaceKimberley Airport
… time landing facilities in Africa! During the Second World War, Kimberley Airport was used for fighter pilots to …
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… The growing demand for vitamin A during the Second World War - mainly to supply the army - brought relief to Cans Bay. … it brought economical prosperity to…
Document 6 - M. Lopes, “Socialism and the Labour Party”, The Bolshevik, April 1920
… have not yet perceived. Its attitude during the great war was for "democracy" and the "fourteen points" of a … of all the workers in One Big Union, to the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… both imperative and urgent if the trend towards a regional war is to be arrested and the duration of the war situation limited through the effective…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… both imperative and urgent if the trend towards a regional war is to be arrested and the duration of the war situation limited through the effective…
Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
… peoples of the world to rid the earth of all the causes of war. It also reminds us of the forthcoming twenty-fifth … encouraged racist South Africa to wage…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
… forces sweeping through the world. The start of World War Two witnessed very divergent attitudes being formed … they needed to pay allegiance to Britain and…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… were concerned that this situation might lead to a race war, with wide international repercussions. Thirteen Asian … African people paid a heavy price, but…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… fort, so the fort experienced no further action during the war. …
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… perception of women in the period after the South African War, the issue of giving women the vote was overshadowed by a …
EventThe first successful non-direct blood transfusion is carried out
… the first blood bank while serving in France during World War I. …
EventFirst celebration of International Women's Day
… initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for …
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… Significantly, the first of these was held just before the war ended, when strike action would no longer threaten the “war effort”. It was a memorable…
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… example, as was much of the movement against the Vietnam war. The mass movement for disarmament and against nuclear war, and the environmentalist movement,…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… of the masses. Look at the people and the question of the war, for instance. All war meetings were a flop. The masses did not wait for Convention to decide…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… international conflicts, in Vietnam, the Spanish Civil War, and the Middle East – in a word, everything that … Soweto Poets, a branding with which he was…