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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 …
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 …
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…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… South Africa. After the end of the South African War , the British and Afrikaners began working on …
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 …
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…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
… it gained from Britain in 1960. At the time of the civil war the official population of Nigeria was 60 million … Tebyan.net, 2010. ‘Nigerian Civil War…
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…
'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…
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…
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…
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…
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]. …
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…
Performance, Violence and the Collapse of a Cultural Movement by Ari Sitas
… ascendance and growth and pessimism during the civil war in KZN and ends with the final failed attempt to revive …
EventMagnus Malan's trial ends
… allegations that the former government had waged a dirty war against its opponents. Judge Jan Hugo concluded his …