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EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… a halt, and political violence, later dubbed “The people’s war”, had spiralled out of control. This summit must also be …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… with the Great Trek and the outbreak of the 6th Xhosa War. Under D'Urban's leadership, the territory between the …
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… After the completion of World War One's Treaty of Versailles, German South West Africa was …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the World War II. In 1944 she was seconded to undertake welfare among …
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… Military operations continued until 1907. When World War I broke out, South African forces occupied German South …
EventBasutoland (now Lesotho) becomes British territory
… of affairs led to increased tension, and in 1880 the Gun War broke out. The result of the conflict was that Basutoland …
EventThe peace talks between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) are called off
… the ANC of putting the country on the brink of civil war and of aiming to wreck the negotiation process, setting …
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,…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… monopoly of power in a country will only lose it through war or violent revolution. It is extremely rare in history to … states to join the ANC in exile…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… During the South African War the British military authorities imported a large number … rust, which have become a trademark in the area. After the war the …
PlaceMhlathuze River
… Zulu and Ndwandwe tribes in 1820, following the Zulu Civil War . The Ndwandwe hierarchy was a largely scattered …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… South Africa. After the end of the South African War , the British and Afrikaners began working on …
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… possible terms that we believe in the ending of the cold war which is today creating fears in the mind of humanity. If we cannot have peace the only…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… small Black upper class, and after a 15-year liberation war that won Zimbabwe its independence in 1980, the school … filing into the Beit Hall. The hall was…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… for both men and women. Our volunteers must be put on a war footing. A PERMANENT CRISIS. The burning of the passes … even of a higher quality but certainly…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… European Jews (having been a Jew himself), love, anti-war ideals, and family dynamics. By honouring these ones in …
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… of the newly independent American colonies and declared war on England. At this stage the French established a …
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… down by a fire in 1906 and rebuilt in 1910. During World War 1 , Moschke was interned and upon his release he found …
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Union and the United States to the brink of a nuclear war. In June 1963, the test ban negotiations resumed. On 5 … Cold War: Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed …
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… Mayibuye'. It outlined a possible strategy of guerrilla war fare. The six men had been studying the document when …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… and became known as Namibia. References: The Namibian War of Independence 1966-1988, Wars of the World [online]. …
Archive2008 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2008
… agreement with the comments made by the Chief Executive of Anglo American, Cynthia Carroll, when she addressed the … In South Africa our own large companies…
Say It out Loud - The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
… of carrying on a callous and brutal one-sided economic war against the Coloured youth. The Commission states that … in those two Provinces which was promised…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… We all missed HOME with poignance. The British sent their boer prisoners of war at the turn of the century to India and Ceylon (Sri … sleep that night…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… else, has been the Pretoria-led and imperialist-backed war of destabilisation. However, the apartheid regime has also paid a high price in conducting this…
PlaceBethlehem, Free State
… of the Orange Free State in 1900, during the South African War. The Town has railway workshops, cold-storage plants, … of former residents of the Town. If…