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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…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… nineteenth century political events ? such as the First Boer War ? contributed to ‘the struggle to give Afrikaans its … the slaves mocked their White madams …
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… mean they withdraw their military support of Saui-Arabia’s war in Yemen. After Al-Bashir was deposed on 11th April, … they would likely withdraw their…
EventJustice Ludorf convicts thirty men accused of conspiring to overthrow the SWA administration
… by the League of Nations at the end of the First World War in 1919. In 1990 Namibia became the last country in …
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…
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. …
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 …
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,…
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
Butterworth is situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and is one of the oldest towns in the Eastern Cape's Wild Coast (the former Transkei - a black…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… increase in student enrolment after the Second World War led to accommodation problems, which were temporarily …
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 …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the First World War (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans, including 607 …
EventThe Berlin Airlift, which delivered food and fuel to West Berliners during a Soviet blockade, and in which the SAA took part, comes to an end
… on 12 May 1949, and the first great standoff of the Cold War was over. Flights continued for some time, though, to …
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War (WW2), Proclamation 276 of Government Gazette 2699 was …