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ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… 11 years Frontline Fellowship has taken the Gospel to the war zones. On Sunday 25th July 1993 the war zones came to us. Our mission headquarters are a few …
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
… was a young woman, just after the end of the First World War, she and her friends would walk hand in hand reciting … in, but keeping up the pace and the…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… of their land. The conflict led to the first frontier war from 1658 to 1660 which ended in the defeat of the … very influence of mother over son. Then the…
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 …
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… Government which consists of an alliance of the wealthy Boer landowners with British Imperialism. In the matter of …
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… increase in student enrolment after the Second World War led to accommodation problems, which were temporarily …
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… of ravaged African countries that were casualties of war. Whatever the circumstances, you had this knack to be … wars from Liberia, the Rwanda genocide,…
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… the decisive final battle in the First Italo-Ethiopian War was fought. The Battle of Adwa, fought Mar. 1, 1896, was … defeated Italy’s troops, ending the…
Under the influence of Dumile Feni’s 'African Guernica' by Sharlene Khan (The Conversation), 07 September 2016
… equally haunting work commentary on the plight of war in his country – surpassed this for me. Why it is/was … deal with the trauma and devastation of…
Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… was in pain. The community was divided into two groups at war with each other. I visited mortuaries showing the … and bullet marks on outside walls bore…
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Afrikaners of their generation, the terrible wrongs of the Boer War still rankle in their hearts. They have many English and …
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… Chapter 3 The Life of a Freedom Fighter Chapter 4 The war of position in small things Chapter 5 Denis - Our Leader …
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… regime relied heavily on imported components for its war effort. This came to light on the 2 April 1984 when four …
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… to how Namibia would be governed after its independence, war in Ovamboland and Angola continued to rage during the …
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… protecting oil installations during the Angolan Civil War. The arrest of the group was allegedly the result of a … www.channel4.com [Accessed 26 July 2010]|…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… (ANC). He became its president at the tail end of World War I, in 1917. As President of the SANNC, Makgatho worked …
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… to England to serve in the medical corps in World War I. Dart left England for South Africa in 1922, where he …
EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… for Total Independence of Angola (Unita) in the civil war in Angola and defied the security personnel of the ANC. …
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… a University be established. By 1899, the South African War had broken out between the ZAR and Britain. In 1902, … of South Africa was declared and in 1914,…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… involved in the food and canning industry during World War II and the post-war era. Black men and women from the Eastern Cape and … during the lull in…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… the first frontier. In 1659 there was an outbreak of war on this frontier with the Dutch settlers led by another … farmhouse situated in Dixton Road,…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… before 1948 - the years covered by the Second World War - when the reaction was influenced by the war as it had been influenced by specific developments for…
PlaceMhlathuze River
… Zulu and Ndwandwe tribes in 1820, following the Zulu Civil War . The Ndwandwe hierarchy was a largely scattered …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… Africa was two years old. After the savage South African War of 1899 to 1902, Great Britain had achieved her goal of … overall sovereignty. During the course…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… of segregation in South Africa during the Second World War . This was because of the growth in industries, where … of segregation in South Africa during the…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… were single males. During and immediately after World War II the majority of urban migrants were families. The … and with it, their influence. By the end of…
The Atlantic slave trade
… slaves on market days." Criminals and prisoners of war, as well as political prisoners were often sold in the … America, however, it was only after the…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people to … Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal…
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… racing in Germany in 1913-1914.[v] He also served in World War One, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross.[vi] Rudolph …
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… Marie played a prominent role during the South African War (1899-1902). She organised petitions, women’s meetings …